AWS Course: History of AWS | Intellipaat

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that was launched in 2006. AWS was originally designed to support Amazon's e-commerce business, but it was soon made available to other businesses. AWS offers servers, storage, networking, remote computing, email, mobile development, and security. AWS accounts for about 13% of Amazon's total revenue as of Q2 2021.

AWS was first to market with a modern cloud infrastructure service when it launched Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud in August, 2006. AWS's first mass-market product was Simple Storage Service (S3), which was rolled out on March 14, 2006. AWS's first offerings were Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), S3, and EC2. These offerings laid the foundation for AWS to become a global player in cloud computing.

AWS was designed with an eye toward the services that were yet to be built. For example, S3 was designed to be a component that could be used as a building block for other services to come.