He also expanded its cloud business Azure which has become the biggest rival to Amazon's AWS.

他还拓展了云服务Azure，如今它已成为亚马逊AWS的主要竞争对手。

Amazon Web Services, known as AWS, and Microsoft Azure.

Amazon Web Services，即 AWS，和 Microsoft Azure。

For the past five years it has been closing in on aws (see chart 2).

在过去的五年里，它一直在逼近 aws（见图 2）。

That’s what happened in 2013 when an AWS outage took down Instagram, Vine and Airbnb.

这就是 2013 年发生的事情，当时 AWS 中断导致 Instagram、Vine 和 Airbnb 瘫痪。

AWS is selling prefabricated data centres not unlike the micro ones from Vertiv or Schneider Electric.

AWS 销售的预制数据中心与 Vertiv 或施耐德电气的微型数据中心没有什么不同。

Microsoft keeps expanding its list of health-related cloud-computing offerings (as is Amazon, through aws, its cloud unit).

微软不断扩大其与健康相关的云计算产品列表（亚马逊也是如此，通过其云部门 aws）。

The Pentagon has opted for larger AWS kit, the size of a shipping container.

五角大楼选择了更大的 AWS 套件，如集装箱大小。

Perhaps $40bn is being ploughed this year into data centres and other physical gear by aws and others.

aws 和其他公司今年可能向数据中心和其他物理设备投入了 400 亿美元。

The software arm of Toyota, a Japanese carmaker, is using AWS's fridge-size Outpost prefabs in America.

日本汽车制造商丰田的软件部门正在美国使用 AWS 的冰箱大小的 Outpost 预制件。

Amazon has adopted the flywheel effect in building successful business, for example, Marketplace, Prime, AWS and FBA.

亚马逊在建立成功的业务时采用了飞轮效应，例如 Marketplace、Prime、AWS 和 FBA。