History of AWS-AWS Blog Info
· 2003: In 2003, Chris Pinkham and Benjamin Black presented a
paper on how Amazon's own internal infrastructure should look like. They
suggested to sell it as a service and prepared a business case on it. They
prepared a six-page document and had a look over it to proceed with it or not.
They decided to proceed with the documentation.
· 2004: SQS stands for "Simple Queue Service" was
officially launched in 2004. A team launched this service in Cape Town, South
Africa.
· 2006: AWS (Amazon Web Services) was officially launched.
· 2007: In 2007, over 180,000 developers had signed up for the
AWS.
· 2010: In 2010, amazon.com retail web services were moved
to the AWS, i.e., amazon.com is now running on AWS.
· 2011: AWS suffered from some major problems. Some parts of
volume of EBS (Elastic Block Store) was stuck and were unable to read and write
requests. It took two days for the problem to get resolved.
· 2012: AWS hosted a first customer event known as re:Invent
conference. First re:invent conference occurred in which new products were
launched. In AWS, another major problem occurred that affects many popular
sites such as Pinterest, Reddit, and Foursquare.
· 2013: In 2013, certifications were launched. AWS started a
certifications program for software engineers who had expertise in cloud
computing.
· 2014: AWS committed to achieve 100% renewable energy usage for
its global footprint.
· 2015: AWS breaks its revenue and reaches to $6 Billion USD per
annum. The revenue was growing 90% every year.
· 2016: By 2016, revenue doubled and reached $13Billion USD per
annum.
· 2017: In 2017, AWS re: invent releases a host of Artificial
Intelligence Services due to which revenue of AWS doubled and reached $27 Billion
USD per annum.
· 2018: In 2018, AWS launched a Machine Learning
Speciality Certs. It heavily focussed on automating Artificial Intelligence
and Machine learning.
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