AWS
Amazon's cloud platform, the largest by market share. Rented servers, storage, and databases, billed by usage.
What it tells you about a developer
AWS is the most common cloud on engineering teams, so most backend and infrastructure candidates have touched it. The signal is in the depth. Someone who names the services they ran, describes the architecture they chose, or has handled a production incident on AWS has operated real systems. AWS depth transfers to Google Cloud and Azure with a short ramp, so a strong AWS background fits reqs naming either.
- Type
- Platform
- Released
- 2006
- Built by
- Amazon
- Used in
- Infrastructure & DevOpsBackend
AWS opened in 2006 and turned computing into something rented by the hour. It now sells more than two hundred services covering compute, storage, databases, networking, and machine learning, and it holds the largest share of the cloud market. Most engineering teams in the United States run on it, which makes AWS the most-named platform in backend and infrastructure job descriptions.