title: AWS (disambiguation)
text: # AWS (disambiguation)
  
  AWS is Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing and web services provider.
  
  AWS or Aws may also refer to:
  
  ## Technology
  
  * Advanced Wireless Services, spectrum band used for mobile services in America
  * Apple Workgroup Server
  * Automatic Warning System, a train safety system used on railways
  * Autonomous Web Services, via the World Wide Web
  * Automatic weather station
  
  ## Organisations
  
  * Alien Workshop, a skateboard company
  * American Welding Society
  * Association of Women Surgeons
  * Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft, an Austrian bank
  * AWS Shopper, a German manufacturer of microcar
  * Solidarity Electoral Action (Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność), a political party coalition in Poland
  
  ## Military
  
  * Aircraft Warning Service, a former civilian service of the United States Army Ground Observer Corps
  * Affordable Weapon System, a US 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 aka Lethal autonomous weapon
  
  ## Music
  
  * A Wilhelm Scream, a punk rock band from Massachusetts
     * A Wilhelm Scream (EP), a 2009 record by the band
  * American Wind Symphony
  * AWS (band), Hungarian metal band
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * South Awyu language (ISO 639-3 code: aws)
  * Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls, the Afrikaans Word List and Spelling Rules publication
  * All-women shortlist
  * Associate Writer to the Signet, a membership level in the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet
  * 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
  