Amazon Web Services (AWS) is among the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platforms. Here's what investors should know.

It is tempting to say that the current vendor interest in Web services, or e-services, is another attempt to sell more complex software to simplify the complexity of building enterprise IT systems ...

What is “Web services?” The core concept is that you’ll be able to build applications out of prebuilt components scattered about the Web using standard protocols that enable run-time binding.