AWS

AWS

1. (rail transport, safety) Initialism of Automatic Warning System.
   • 2019 November 6, Paul Stephen, “Cowden: a crash radio could have prevented”, in Rail, page 72:

     Furthermore, the train was equipped with AWS (Automatic Warning System), which would have provided an audible warning that a signal was being approached.

2. (Internet) Initialism of Amazon Web Services.
   • 2021 November 18, Clare Duffy, “Why Amazon is opening an in-person cloud skills center to train workers for other companies”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     The Skills Center, which is located on Amazon’s corporate headquarters campus in Seattle, Washington, and opens to the public November 22, is the first of its kind for the company. It’s part of a larger commitment to train 29 million people globally in cloud computing by 2025 that AWS made last year.

AWS pl (plural only)

1. (US, telecommunications) Initialism of advanced wireless services

AWS (plural AWSes)

1. (military, robotics, artificial intelligence) Initialism of autonomous weapons system.
   • 2021 June 3, Maria Cramer, quoting James Dawes, “A.I. Drone May Have Acted on Its Own in Attacking Fighters, U.N. Says”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 August 2021:

     “The concern that these weapons might misidentify targets is the least of our worries,” he said. “More significant is the threat of an A.W.S. arms race and proliferation crisis.”

2. (UK politics) Initialism of all-women shortlist.

• SARMO
• smart bomb
• UCAV

• was, Saw, Was, saw, SAW, WAs, ASW

• IPA^(key): /aˈwe.ɛs/, [aˈwe.ɛs]

AWS (plural AWS-AWS)

1. (surgery) initialism of awake brain surgery