AWS

English

Proper noun

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.

Noun

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^[1], →ISSN:

     “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.”

See also

• SARMO
• smart bomb
• UCAV

Further reading

• AWS on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• was, Saw, Was, saw, SAW, WAs, ASW