AWS, or Amazon Web Services, is an on-demand cloud computing provider.

AWS or aws may also refer to:

Technology

  • Autonomous Web Services, a service offered between electronic devices via the Internet
  • Advanced Wireless Services, a telecommunications spectrum band
  • Apple Workgroup Server, a family of workgroup servers by Apple
  • Automatic Warning System, a railway safety system
  • Arctic Weather Satellite, a European weather satellite
  • Automatic weather station, a meteorological instrument

Businesses and organizations

  • Alien Workshop (founded 1990), a skateboard company
  • American Welding Society (founded 1919)
  • Association of Women Surgeons (founded 1981)
  • (founded 1954), an Austrian bank
  • AWS, a 1970s German car maker
  • Solidarity Electoral Action (; 1996–2001), a political coalition in Poland

Languages

  • Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls, the Afrikaans Word List and Spelling Rules
  • South Awyu language (ISO 639-3: aws)

Military

  • Aircraft Warning Service, a former civilian service of the U.S. Army Ground Observer Corps
  • Affordable Weapon System, a U.S. Navy cruise missile system in a shipping container
  • American War Standard, a plan for the electronic color code of small radio parts
  • Arctic Warfare Suppressed, an internally suppressed bolt-action sniper rifle
  • Autonomous weapon system, also known as a lethal autonomous weapon

Music

  • AWS (band), a Hungarian post-hardcore band
  • American Wind Symphony, an American musical ensemble
  • A Wilhelm Scream, an American rock band
  • A Wilhelm Scream (EP), a 2009 record by A Wilhelm Scream

Other uses

  • All-women shortlist, an affirmative action practice in the United Kingdom
  • Associate Writer to the Signet, a membership level in the Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet
  • Abdoel Wahab Sjaranie Regional General Hospital (Indonesian: Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah Abdul Wahab Sjahranie; RSUD AWS), a government-owned hospital located in Samarinda City, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
  • Banu Aws (Sons of Aws), a tribe in Mohammad's era
  • Alternative work schedule, a kind of flexitime used in certain U.S. government agencies
  • Alcohol withdrawal syndrome, a medical condition

See also

  • ATWS, or automatic track warning system, a technical device used during track construction for occupational safety
  • AW (disambiguation)