AWS
Also written as Amazon Web Services
Amazon's cloud computing platform — the most widely used provider of servers, storage, databases, and other infrastructure rented over the internet.
Think of it like
Like renting warehouse space, trucks, and staff from the biggest logistics company in the world instead of building and running your own warehouse.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Lists 'AWS experience' with no specifics.
Senior sounds like
Names which specific services they've actually configured themselves, versus just deployed to.
Ask them
“Which AWS services have you actually configured yourself, versus just deployed to?”
Sounds like real experience
Names specific services they configured directly — an IAM policy, a VPC's subnet layout, an autoscaling threshold — and the constraint or incident that drove the configuration.
Probe further if
Lists services by name without describing configuring any of them, or credits AWS itself for something that actually required a deliberate setup decision.