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AWS

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abbreviation

  1. automatic warning system: a train safety system which gives audible warnings about the signals being passed, and can apply the brakes automatically if necessary

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“With a differentiated architecture, a step-change in contracted revenue from OpenAI and AWS, and a market only now learning to pay for speed, we see an asymmetric, upside-skewed setup,” wrote Wedbush’s Bryson.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

The knock against AWS, however, has been the perception that it lacked the heft required for training AI—which is what Colossus was designed to do best.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Snowflake expanded ties to Amazon Web Services with a $6 billion deal that will make it one of the cloud giant’s biggest customers for its general-purpose Graviton processor chips used inside AWS data centers.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

“With AWS, we are making it easier for enterprises to bring AI directly to governed data, so they can move faster, operate with greater clarity, and create measurable impact at scale,” Ramaswamy added.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

Most people don’t know which websites run on AWS, and they don’t care.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

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