---
name: Amazon Web Services
domain: aws.amazon.com
kind: product
relation: shaper
segment: platform payments and embedded finance
descGrounded: 0.55
---

# Amazon Web Services

A cloud computing platform offering compute, storage, database, analytics, and AI services for building and scaling applications.

**Route:** surfaced by the platform payments and embedded finance lane's de-branded queries → shaper to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** AWS provides the foundational cloud infrastructure that payment platforms like Stripe rely on, and any change in AWS's pricing or reliability would reverberate across the market.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Cloud Computing Services - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

> Secure and resizable compute capacity for virtually any workload

> Virtually unlimited secure object storage for AI, analytics, and archives

**Edges:**

- competitor [[exalate-com]]
- competitor [[stripe-com]]
