AWS
Encyclopedia
AWS or aws can refer to:
Business
Music
Organisations
Safety and warning systems
Computing and telecommunications
Other uses
Business
- Alien WorkshopAlien WorkshopAlien Workshop is a Skateboarding company founded in 1990 by Chris Carter and Mike Hill.Based in Dayton, Ohio, this is a departure from the California-centric skateboard industry....
, a skateboard company - Austria Wirtschaftsservice GesellschaftAustria Wirtschaftsservice GesellschaftThe Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft is an Austrian federal development and financing bank for the promotion and financing of companies. The bank provides around € 1 billion in development aid, mainly as grants, loans and guarantees to finance projects in the value of almost € 11 billion...
(aws), an Austrian bank - AWS ShopperAWS ShopperAWS Shopper was a German Automobile manufactured in Berlin from 1971 to 1974.- History :...
, Automobilwerk Walter Schätzle, German manufacturer of a microcar
Music
- A Wilhelm ScreamA Wilhelm ScreamA Wilhelm Scream is a melodic hardcore band from New Bedford, Massachusetts. Many people have referenced Strung Out, Hot Water Music, Propagandhi, and Strike Anywhere as the band's similar artists. Their name is a reference to the Wilhelm Scream, a famous stock sound effect which mainly is used in...
, a punk rock band from Massachusetts - American Wind Symphony
Organisations
- Akcja Wyborcza SolidarnoscSolidarity Electoral ActionSolidarity Electoral Action was a political party coalition in Poland. Since 1997 its official name has been Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność Prawicy or Solidarity Electoral Action of the Right...
(Solidarity Electoral Action), a political party coalition in Poland - American Welding SocietyAmerican Welding SocietyThe American Welding Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the science, technology, and application of welding and allied joining and cutting processes, including brazing, soldering, and thermal spraying...
- Association of Women SurgeonsAssociation of Women SurgeonsThe Association of Women Surgeons is an international organization of women who practice in surgical specialties which remained male dominated for years after women entered medicine in large numbers...
Safety and warning systems
- Aircraft warning serviceAircraft warning serviceThe Aircraft Warning Service was a civilian service of the United States Army Ground Observer Corps instated during World War II to keep watch for enemy planes entering American airspace. It became inactive on May 29, 1944.-Purpose:...
, a civilian service of the United States Army Ground Observer Corps - Automatic Warning SystemAutomatic Warning SystemThe Automatic Warning System is a form of limited cab signalling and train protection system introduced in 1956 in the United Kingdom to help train drivers observe and obey signals. It was based on a 1930 system developed by Alfred Ernest Hudd and marketed as the "Strowger-Hudd" system...
for road and railway use
Computing and telecommunications
- Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services is a collection of remote computing services that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com...
, a collection of remote computing services - Apple Workgroup ServerApple Workgroup ServerApple Workgroup Server and, later, Macintosh Server, were the names given to selected models of Macintosh computers which were sold by Apple Computer with additional server software and sometimes bigger hard drives. Apart from that, they were mostly identical to computers out of Apple's...
- Advanced Wireless ServicesAdvanced Wireless ServicesAWS-1 or UMTS band IV, is a wireless telecommunications spectrum band used for mobile voice and data services, video, and messaging. AWS-1 is used in the United States and Canada...
, a wireless telecommunications spectrum band used for mobile phones
Other uses
- All-women shortlistsAll-women shortlistsThe use of all-women shortlists is the political practice intended to increase the proportion of female Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom by allowing only women to stand in particular constituencies for a particular political party. Though the practice is available to all parties, only...
, a political tactic to increase the proportion of female parliamentary representatives - American War Standard, a plan for the Electronic color codeElectronic color codeThe electronic color code is used to indicate the values or ratings of electronic components, very commonly for resistors, but also for capacitors, inductors, and others...
of small radio parts - Automatic weather stationAutomatic weather stationAn automatic weather station is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labour or to enable measurements from remote areas...
- Banu AusBanu AusThe Banū Aws or simply Aws was one of the main Arab tribes of Medina. The other was Khazraj, and the two, constituted the Ansar after the Hijra.Aws and Khazraj were known as Banū Qayla in pre-Islamic era.-Etymology:...
(Sons of Aws), a tribe in Mohammad's era - Affordable Weapon SystemAffordable Weapon SystemThe Affordable Weapon System is a US Navy program to design and produce a low cost "off the shelf" cruise missile launchable from a self contained unit mounted in a standard shipping container.-Specifications:...
, a US Navy cruise missile system in a shipping container