Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis.
AWS has 33% market share for cloud infrastructure while the next two competitors Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have 21%, and 10% respectively, according to Synergy Group.
The genesis of AWS came in the early 2000s. After building Merchant.com, Amazon's e-commerce-as-a-service platform that offers third-party retailers a way to build their own web-stores
In July 2002, Amazon.com Web Services, managed by Colin Bryar, launched its first web services, opening up the Amazon.com platform to all developers
Jeff Barr, an early AWS employee, credits Vermeulen, Jassy, Bezos, himself, and a few others for coming up with the idea that would evolve into EC2, S3, and RDS
In late 2003, the concept for compute which would later launch as EC2, was reformulated when Chris Pinkham and Benjamin Black presented a paper internally describing a vision for Amazon's retail computing infrastructure that was completely standardized, completely automated, and would rely extensively on web services for services such as storage
In November 2004, AWS launched its first infrastructure service for public usage Simple Queue Service (SQS). In Same year, Jeff Barr launched the first blog on AWS
- On March 14 - 2006, AWS launched Amazon S3 cloud storage followed by EC2 in August 2006
Andy Jassy, AWS founder and vice president in 2006, said at the time that Amazon S3 "helps free developers from worrying about where they are going to store data, whether it will be safe and secure, if it will be available when they need it, the costs associated with server maintenance, or whether they have enough storage available.
In 2007, over 180,000 developers had signed up for the AWS.
In 2010, amazon.com retail web services were moved to the AWS, i.e., amazon.com is now running on AWS.
In November 2012, AWS hosted its first customer event in Las Vegas
- In April 2013, Amazon launched its first certification program
In August 2014, AWS received Department of Defense-Wide provisional authorization for all U.S. Regions
In Nov 2014, Amazon promises to power all of its data centers with renewable energy in the long-term. AWS claimed its aim was to achieve 100% renewable energy usage in the future
- In January 2015, Amazon Web Services acquired Annapurna Labs, an Israel-based microelectronics company for a reported US$350–370M.
- In April 2015, Amazon.com reported AWS was profitable, with sales of $1.57 billion in the first quarter of the year and $265 million of operating income.
During the 2015 re:Invent keynote, AWS disclosed that they have more than a million active customers every month in 190 countries, including nearly 2,000 government agencies, 5,000 education institutions and more than 17,500 nonprofits.
In 2016 Q1, revenue was $2.57 billion with net income of $604 million, a 64% increase over 2015 Q1 that resulted in AWS being more profitable than Amazon's North American retail business for the first time.
In 2016 - AWS surpasses $10 billion revenue target.
In 2017 - AWS had $17.46 billion in annual revenue.
In January 2018, Amazon launched an autoscaling service on AWS
In 2019, AWS reported 37% yearly growth and accounted for 12% of Amazon's revenue (up from 11% in 2018).
In August 2019, the U.S. Navy said it moved 72,000 users from six commands to an AWS cloud system as a first step toward pushing all of its data and analytics onto the cloud
By end of 2020, the number had grown to $46 billion
In April 2021, AWS reported 32% yearly growth and accounted for 32% of $41.8 billion cloud market in Q1 2021
- In 2021, DISH Network announced they will develop and launch its 5G network on AWS.
- In June 2022, AWS announced they had launched the AWS Snowcone a small, rugged, secure edge computing device to the International Space Station on the Axiom Mission 1.
- In June 2022, Amazon announced and displayed a preview of their latest AI tools for programmers called CodeWhisperer. While currently only available to people who received an invitation though the AWS IDE Toolkit, CodeWhisperer is an IDE plugin that will examine the users code and comments and present users with syntactically correct suggestions.
sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services
https://www.awsgeek.com/AWS-History/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/author/jbarr/
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