- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon
- Launched Cloud services in 2006, initially as Web Services
- Now serving more than 190+ countries around the world
- The genesis of AWS came in the early 2000s. Prior experience with building Merchant.com
- It is an Amazon’s e-commerce-as-a-service platform for third-party retailers to build their own web-stores, leading them to pursue service-oriented architecture as a means to scale their engineering operations led by the then CTO, Allan Vermeulen.
- Then one by one databases, storage, and compute are launched on AWS
- By the end of 2017, aws is one of leading cloud service provider with high market when compared to others
- First Service launched by AWS is Storage related → S3 – Simple storage service
- Second service is Messaging services → SQS – Simple Queue Service
- Third Service Launched is Cloud Computing services → EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud
- Famous clients of AWS are :
- NASA
- Netflix
- Dish Network
- Bloomberg
- More than 220+ Services are available on AWS
Read More :
1. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Services