# Timeline of Amazon Web Services

This is a timeline of Amazon Web Services, which offers a suite of cloud computing services that make up an on-demand computing platform.

## AWS Prelude

| Year | Month and date (if available) | Event type | Details |
| 2000 | | Prelude | Amazon.com, the parent company of the as yet nonexistent AWS, begins work on merchant.com, an e-commerce platform intended for use by other large retailers such as Target Corporation. In the process, Amazon's team realizes that they need to decouple their code better, with cleaner interfaces and access APIs. Around the same time, the company also realizes the need to build infrastructure-as-a-service internally, to improve the speed of development and not have it bottlenecked by infrastructure availability. All these changes help pave the way for AWS. |
| 2003 | | Prelude | Benjamin Black and Chris Pinkham write a short paper describing a vision for Amazon infrastructure that, in Black's words, "was completely standardized, completely automated, and relied extensively on web services for things like storage." |
| 2004 | | Prelude | Jeff Bezos approves the idea of experimenting with Amazon infrastructure. Pinkham leaves for South Africa to set up a satellite development office. While there, he works on a pilot along with help from Chris Brown and Willem van Biljon. Although the team works from South Africa, the servers are hosted in the United States. |
| 2004 | November 9 | Customer outreach | The Amazon Web Services blog is launched, with a first blog post by Jeff Barr. At the time, the name Amazon Web Services refers to a collection of APIs and tools to access the Amazon.com catalog, rather than the Infrastructure as a Service it would eventually become. |
| 2005 | | Prelude | A private precursor to AWS launches, with a small number of customers. At the same time, Amazon begins planning for a public launch of AWS. Based on internal discussions, they decide to launch storage, compute, and database offerings so that developers can use all of them together. |

## Full timeline

| Year | Month and date (if available) | Event type | Details |
| 2006 | March 14 | Product (storage) | Amazon Web Services launches by releasing the Simple Storage Service (S3). |
| 2006 | July 13 | Product (data flow) | Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is released in production. SQS had been around (but not available in production) since 2004. |
| 2006 | August 25 | Product (compute) | Amazon launches Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which forms a central part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), by allowing users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. The service initially includes machines (instances) available for 10 cents an hour, and is available only to existing AWS customers rather than the general public. The EC2 region is us-east-1, also known as compute-1, and is located in North Virginia. |
| 2007 | August 22 | Product (compute) | Amazon EC2 is now available in unlimited public beta, so that anybody can sign up and start using it. It also launches new instance types. |
| 2007 | November 6 | Regional diversification | Amazon launches S3 in Europe, reducing latency and bandwidth for European users and helping them comply with privacy requirements. |
| 2007 | December 13 | Product (database) | Amazon launches Amazon SimpleDB, which allows businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cheaply process vast amounts of data. It uses a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of EC2 and Amazon S3. |
| 2008 | March 26 | Product, regional diversification | Amazon announces Elastic IPs, IP addresses that can be decoupled from physical EC2 machines, as well as availability zones, clusters of one or more data centers in a region such that different availability zones are isolated from each other in terms of power and water sources. |
| 2008 | April 7 | Competition | Google launches Google App Engine, a platform as a service (PaaS) cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. This is part of the Google Cloud. |
| 2008 | August 20 | Product (storage) | Amazon announces the launch of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), which provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances. |
| 2008 | October 23 | Product (service) | Amazon EC2 exits beta and begins offering a service level agreement. |
| 2008 | November 18 | Product (Internet delivery) | AWS launches Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network (CDN). |
| 2008 | December 10 | Regional diversification | Amazon launches EC2 in Europe (specifically, the region eu-west-1 in Ireland), making it easier for European customers to run their instances locally and benefit from higher bandwidth and lower latency. This comes a year after the setting up of S3 in Europe. |
| 2009 | April | Product (compute) | Amazon launches Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), which allows businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cheaply process vast amounts of data. It uses a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of EC2 and Amazon S3. |
| 2009 | May 18 | Product (compute) | Amazon introduces Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (which makes it easy for users to distribute web traffic across Amazon EC2 instances), Auto Scaling (which allows users to scale policies driven by metrics collected by Amazon CloudWatch), and Amazon CloudWatch (for tracking per-instance performance metrics including CPU load). |
| 2009 | May 21 | Product (data migration) | AWS announces an Import/Export service, whereby people can send their storage device to AWS and AWS will upload the data to S3. This is a predecessor of the Snowball service that they would launch in October 2015. |
| 2009 | Aug 25 | Product (networking) | AWS launches Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), allowing customers launch EC2 instances into their own logically isolated networks, with the ability to define subnets, routing and access control lists. |
| 2009 | October 22 | Product (database) | Amazon launches Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), a web service running "in the cloud" designed to simplify the setup, operation, and scaling of a relational database for use in applications. It starts out by supporting MySQL databases. |
| 2009 | December 3 | Regional diversification | AWS launches in a second region in the United States called us-west-1, located in Northern California. |
| 2009 | December 13 | Product (compute) | AWS announces EC2 Spot Instances, allowing users to bid for one or more EC2 instances at the price they are willing to pay. |
| 2010 | February | Competition | Microsoft launches Microsoft Azure, its foray into cloud computing. |
| 2010 | April 7 | Product (Internet delivery) | AWS launches Simple Notification Service (SNS), a tool to allow developers to push messages generated from an application to other systems and people (by methods such as email or webhooks). |
| 2010 | April 29 | Regional diversification | AWS launches a region, called ap-southeast-1, in Singapore. This is its first region in the Asia-Pacific, and is intended to meet the demand for lower latency and better bandwidth for the growing customer base in the Asia-Pacific region. |
| 2010 | May 15 | Product (management) | Amazon launches AWS CloudFormation, its tool to help customers define collections of AWS resources (called stacks) with AWS taking care of using the definitions to provision and configure the required resources. CloudFormation is an early example of a declarative Infrastructure as Code tool. |
| 2010 | Sep 2 | IAM (security) | AWS launches identity and access management (IAM) – Preview Beta. |
| 2010 | November | Product | Amazon announces that Amazon.com has migrated its retail web services to AWS. |
| 2010 | December 5 | Product (Internet delivery) | AWS launches Amazon Route 53, a scalable and highly available Domain Name System that can be accessed via programmatic APIs. |
| 2011 | January 19 | Product (management) | AWS launches AWS Elastic Beanstalk, an orchestration service for deploying infrastructure which orchestrates AWS services including EC2, S3, SNS, CloudWatch, autoscaling, and Elastic Load Balancers. |
| 2011 | January 25 | Product (Internet delivery) | AWS announces the launch of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), a service for large-scale email delivery. A week later, MailChimp announces its own Simple Transaction Service (STS) for bulk email delivery using SES. |
| 2011 | March 2 | Regional diversification | AWS launches a new region, named ap-northeast-1 in Tokyo, Japan, its second in the Asia-Pacific region. The region is launched to meet the needs of AWS' current and potential Japanese customer base for low latency and better bandwidth. |
| 2011 | June 21 | Competition | DigitalOcean launches. By November 2015, it becomes the second largest hosting company in the world in terms of web-facing computers. |
| 2011 | July 19 | Ecosystem | Netflix announces its suite of tools ("Simian Army") including Chaos Monkey, that randomly terminates EC2 instances within an autoscaling group during working hours so that the company is forced to design its systems with fault tolerance and rapid recovery. |
| 2011 | November 9 | Regional diversification | AWS launches a new region called us-west-2 and located in Oregon, its third region in the United States for general public use. |
| 2011 | September 1 | Ecosystem | Cloudyn, which provides cloud monitoring and cost optimization for cloud infrastructure (like that of Amazon AWS), launches. |
| 2011 | December 14 | Regional diversification | AWS launches a new region, called sa-east-1, in São Paulo, Brazil. This is its first region in South America. |
| 2012 | January 18 | Product (database) | Amazon launches Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database service that is offered by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services portfolio. |
| 2012 | April 29 | Ecosystem | AWS Marketplace is "an online store where customers can find, buy, and quickly deploy software that runs on AWS." |
| 2012 | June 11 | Product (security) | Amazon launches AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for EC2. |
| 2012 | July 30 | Ecosystem | Netflix open sources Chaos Monkey, its tool for simulating outages by randomly terminating EC2 instances, to help other companies build fault tolerant systems in the AWS cloud. |
| 2012 | July 30 | Product (storage) | Provisioned IOPS (PIOPs) are a new EBS volume type designed to deliver predictable, higher performance for I/O intensive workloads. |
| 2012 | August 21 | Product (storage) | Amazon launches Amazon Glacier, an online file storage web service that provides storage for data archiving and backup. |
| 2012 | November | Product (storage) | AWS announces Amazon Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse service. |
| 2012 | November 12 | Regional diversification | AWS launches a region, ap-southeast-2, in Sydney, Australia. This is its third region in the Asia-Pacific and its eighth public region (excluding AWS GovCloud). |
| 2013 | March 26 | Product | AWS CloudHSM |
| 2013 | May 13 | Recognition | AWS is awarded an Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). |
| 2013 | June 4 | Competition | IBM acquires SoftLayer, which marks IBM's entry into cloud computing. |
| 2013 | October 10 | Customer outreach | AWS announces AWS Activate, a global program for startups. Participating startups receive promotional credits that can be spent within AWS, as well as training, support, and access to a forum. |
| 2013 | November 4 | Product (compute) | Amazon announces G2 instances, a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type designed for applications that require 3D graphics capabilities. |
| 2013 | November 13 | Product | Amazon announces AWS CloudTrail, a web service that delivers logs of API calls made on the user's account to Amazon S3 buckets. |
| 2013 | December 17 | Product (data flow) | Amazon releases Amazon Kinesis, a service for real-time processing of streaming data. |
| 2013 | December 18 | Regional diversification | AWS launches in China, with a limited preview of its Beijing region. However, due to Internet censorship in China, its China data center is not part of the global AWS network. Rather, it is a standalone region with the same APIs and services as available in other AWS regions, but a user must create a separate AWS account for AWS China and cannot use the AWS Global account. The service operator is Beijing Sinnet Technology Co. |
| 2014 | August | Security Certification | AWS first to achieve MTCS Level 3 Certification. |
| 2014 | October 23 | Regional diversification | AWS launches its second region in Europe, specifically, eu-central-1 in Frankfurt, Germany. |
| 2014 | November 12 | Product (database) | AWS announces Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database offering enhanced high availability and performance. The feature becomes available to all AWS customers on July 27, 2015. |
| 2014 | November 12 | Product (security) | AWS Key Management Service |
| 2014 | November 13 | Product (compute) | AWS launches a preview of EC2 Container Service (ECS), facilitating the use of container infrastructure on AWS. Third-party integration such as those with Docker are available at the time of release. |
| 2014 | November 13 | Product (compute) | AWS launches AWS Lambda, its Functions as a Service (FaaS) tool. With Lambda, AWS customers can define and upload functions with specific triggers and execution code. AWS takes care of executing the function on the trigger occurring, and the AWS customer does not have to provision or manage the compute resources. Lambda is an early harbinger of the concept of "serverless architecture", referring to the idea of providing services without having dedicated servers to provide those services. |
| 2014 | December 17 | Product | Introduction of Resource Groups and Tag Editor in AWS Management Console |
| 2015 | February 12 | Product | Introduction of permission and privileged policies managed by Amazon in AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM). |
| 2015 | April 9 | Product | AWS announces a new machine learning platform at the AWS Summit in San Francisco, specifically suited to machine learning without requiring specific expertise. |
| 2015 | April 28 | Acquisitions | AWS acquires ClusterK, a startup that allows users to run apps on Amazon's cloud for 1/10th of the regular price. |
| 2015 | May 19 | Evaluation | Gartner releases an updated version of its Magic Quadrant, evaluating Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are the only two services in the top right quadrant ("Leaders") with AWS higher up. A number of services are in the bottom right and bottom left quadrants. |
| 2015 | July 9 | Product | AWS CodePipeline continuous delivery service |
| 2015 | July 9 | Product | AWS launches AWS API Gateway Service. |
| 2015 | October 1 | Product | AWS launches AWS Elasticsearch Service. |
| 2015 | October 7 | Product | AWS Inspector preview will be available soon. |
| 2015 | October 7 | QuickSight | Amazon QuickSight – Fast & Easy to Use Business Intelligence for Big Data at 1/10th the Cost of Traditional Solutions. |
| 2015 | October 7 | Product (data migration) | AWS launches Snowball, a physical appliance with 50 TB of storage and a Kindle on the side. Customers can get a Snowball for 10 days for $200, during which they can fill it with data and then ship it back to Amazon. The Snowball costs $15 for every additional day kept. This is the second generation of their data import/export hardware after a previous release in 2009. |
| 2015 | October 8 | Product (Internet of Things) | AWS announces its managed cloud platform for the Internet of Things. The platform becomes generally available on December 18, 2015. |
| 2015 | December 21 | Product | AWS announces an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), a fully managed Docker container registry. |
| 2016 | January 6 | Regional diversification | AWS launches a new region, called ap-northeast-2, in Seoul, the capital city of South Korea. The region is the fourth in the Asia-Pacific. |
| 2016 | March | Partnerships, Competition | Dropbox announces that it now stores over 90% of its user data on its own infrastructure stack as it continues to transition from Amazon S3. |
| 2016 | May 18 | Product (Computing) | AWS announces Automatic Auto Scaling for Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) services. |
| 2016 | June 21 | Product (Computing) | AWS announces AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to provisioning and managing SSL/TLS certificates. |
| 2016 | June 27 | Regional diversification | AWS launches its first region in India, located in Mumbai, and called ap-south-1. |
| 2016 | June 28 | Product (storage) | AWS launches Elastic File System (EFS) in production in three AWS regions (us-east-1, us-west-2, and eu-west-1). EFS allows customers to create POSIX-compliant file systems that can be attached to multiple EC2 instances. The file system grows and shrinks as needed and performance scales with storage size. The service was originally announced on April 9, 2015. |
| 2016 | July 14 | Acquisitions | AWS acquires Cloud9, a San Francisco–based startup that has built an integrated development environment (IDE) for web and mobile developers to collaborate. |
| 2016 | August 4 | Evaluation | Gartner publishes an update to its Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings. The top right quadrant (for leaders) has only two players: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, with AWS significantly higher. The only other player on the right half is Google Cloud Platform (a change from last year, when there were many others in the right half as well), and all other players are in the bottom left. |
| 2016 | October 13 | Partnerships | VMWare, a company that provides cloud and virtualization services, announces a partnership with AWS, under which all of VMware's infrastructure will soon be available on AWS. |
| 2016 | October 17 | Regional diversification | AWS launches its fourth public region in the United States, called us-east-2, in Ohio, with three availability zones. AWS also announces that it will treat this region and the North Virginia region as one region when considering transfer pricing (for instance, EC2 to EC2 transfer will be charged at the inter-availability zone price, and S3 to EC2 transfer will be free), allowing its customers to have more regional redundancy and to migrate data off of the North Virginia data center. |
| 2016 | November 30 | Product (data migration) | AWS announces the AWS Snowmobile, a secure data truck that can store up to 100 PB of data and supports data transfer at a rate of 1 Tb/second across multiple 40 Gb/second connections (so the truck can be filled in 10 days). |
| 2016 | November 30 | Product (Internet of Things, data migration) | AWS announces Snowball Edge, an augmentation of its previous device Snowball. Snowball Edge is a piece of hardware with 100 TB of storage and an attached Kindle, as well as the capability to run AWS Lambda functions with the compute capability of the m4.4xlarge EC2 instance. Customers can request a Snowball Edge at $300 for ten days with an additional charge of $30 per day; after shipping it back the data can be uploaded to S3 as with the original Snowball. |
| 2016 | November 30 | Product | AWS announces Amazon Lightsail, intended to compete against existing virtual private server offerings such as those by Linode and DigitalOcean. Lightsail packages together a compute server, storage, and transfer into fixed-price plans, like VPS providers do. Lightsail is a little more expensive than but otherwise comparable to similarly priced plans offered at the time by Linode and DigitalOcean. Linode is cheaper in terms of RAM and both Linode and DigitalOcean are cheaper in terms of network overage costs, but Lightsail costs less if the server is being spun up for only a few hours. |
| 2016 | November 30 | Product | Amazon Polly text-to-speech product |
| 2016 | November 30 | Product (AI) | Amazon Rekognition pre-trained computer vision API |
| 2016 | November 30 | Product (AI) | Amazon Lex chatbot builder |
| 2016 | December 1 | Product | Amazon Pinpoint tool designed to let developers send targeted push notifications. |
| 2016 | December 1 | Product | Amazon Step Functions tool design to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. |
| 2016 | December 8 | Regional diversification | AWS launches its first region in Canada, called ca-central-1 for Canada (Central). |
| 2016 | December 13 | Regional diversification | AWS launches its London region (eu-west-2). This is its third region in Europe and first in the United Kingdom, the other two regions being in Frankfurt (Germany) and Ireland. Plans for the region had been announced in November 2015. |
| 2016 | December 22 | Product (Compute) | AWS EC2 Systems Manager management service to automate configuration and magament of EC2 and On-Premises Systems. |
| 2017 | February 23 | Product (compute) | AWS launches i3 instances, a new generation of instances with large SSDs intended to be used for high-throughput datastores. The instances are more than 50% cheaper than the corresponding previous generation i2 instances, and have larger memory. |
| 2017 | August 14 | Product (database) | Amazon Glue – a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service |
| 2017 | August 30 | Product (database) | Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility |
| 2017 | October 24 | Product (database) | Amazon Aurora Fast Database Cloning feature |
| 2017 | November 8 | Product | Amazon MQ fully managed service for open source message brokers |
| 2017 | November 9 | Product | AWS Privatelink |
| 2017 | November 29 | Product | Amazon Systems Manager user interface to view operational data and automate operational task. |
| 2017 | November 29 | Product | AWS Fargate service for deploying and managing containers without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure |
| 2017 | November 29 | Product (AI) | Amazon SageMaker managed machine learning service |
| 2017 | November 29 | Product (AI) | Amazon Translate provides natural language translation. |
| 2017 | November 29 | Product (AI) | Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition software. |
| 2017 | December 14 | Product | AWS CloudWatch agent for Linux and Windows which allows collection of disk and memory metrics as well as logs. |
| 2017 | December 18 | Regional diversification | AWS launches its Paris region (eu-west-3). Paris joins Ireland, Frankfurt, and London as the fourth AWS Region in Europe. |
| 2017 | December 18 | Product | AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate and AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise become available in nine regions. |
| 2018 | April 4 | Product (security) | Amazon launches AWS Secrets Manager which manages the storage, distribution, and rotation of secrets via API, the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS Lambda functions. |
| 2018 | June 5 | Product (compute) | AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions. |
| 2018 | September 11–12 | Acquisitions | Amazon acquires the aws.com domain from Earth Networks, formerly known as Automated Weather Source. |
| 2018 | November | Product | AWS Ground Station is released. |
| 2018 | November 26 | Product | AWS Global Accelerator, a network service used to route data over Amazon's private network |
| 2018 | November 26 | Product (CPU) | AWS Graviton CPU powered EC2 A1 instances are publicly available in 4 regions. |
| 2018 | November 28 | Product (compute) | AWS launches hibernation for EC2 instances. |
| 2018 | November 28 | Product (AI) | Amazon Textract is a "service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents." |
| 2018 | November 28 | Product | AWS Lake Formation simplifies the process of setting up and maintaining a data lake. |
| 2018 | November 28 | Product (AI) | Amazon Personalize enables developers to create their own recommendation engines. |
| 2018 | November 28 | Product (AI) | Amazon Forecast allows customers to use their historical data produce forecasts for topics such as inventory levels and product demand. |
| 2018 | November 29 | Product (AI) | Amazon DeepLens is a wireless video camera. DeepLens is designed such that customers can deploy their own deep learning models for computer vision onto the camera. |
| 2018 | November 29 | Product (compute) | Amazon MSK: Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka in Public Preview |
| 2018 | November 29 | Product | AWS Well-Architected Tool: review workloads against the latest AWS architectural best practices, and get guidance on how to improve cloud architectures |
| 2019 | January 16 | Product (compute) | Amazon Backup service for Amazon EBS volumes, RDS databases, DynamoDB tables, EFS file systems and AWS Storage Gateway volumes limited to a given AWS region. |
| 2019 | March | Product | AWS App Mesh, a service mesh that provides application level networking |
| 2019 | July 29 | Regional diversification | Amazon launches me-south-1 in Bahrain. |
| 2019 | September 10 | Product | Amazon Quantum Ledger Database |
| 2019 | December 3 | Product (CPU) | AWS Graviton2 CPU powered EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are launched. |
| 2019 | December 3 | Product (compute) | AWS Outposts allows AWS services to run in non-AWS datacenters. |
| 2019 | December 3 | Product | AWS Wavelength |
| 2020 | April 22 | Product | Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service to securely transfer data between third-party SaaS offerings and AWS services. |
| 2020 | April 22 | Regional diversification | Amazon launches af-south-1 in Cape Town. |
| 2020 | April 27 | Regional diversification | Amazon launches eu-south-1 in Milan. |
| 2020 | May 11 | Product | Amazon Kendra, an intelligent enterprise search service powered by machine learning |
| 2020 | June 24 | Product | Amazon Honeycode, a no-code platform for web and mobile application development |
| 2020 | July 9 | Product | AWS Copilot |
| 2020 | September 30 | Product (database) | Amazon Timestream, a time series database |
| 2020 | December 1 | Product | Amazon CodeGuru, a developer tool that uses machine learning-based recommendations to improve code quality |
| 2021 | March 1 | Regional diversification | AWS expands Osaka Local Region (ap-northeast-3) to a standard AWS region with 3 Availability Zones |
| 2021 | May 18 | Product | AWS App Runner, a fully managed container application service |
| 2021 | August 19 | Product | Amazon MemoryDB, an in-memory database service with API compatible with that of Redis. |
| 2021 | November 30 | Product (CPU) | AWS Graviton3 CPU powered EC2 C7g instances are launched in preview. |
| 2021 | November 30 | Product | AWS Outposts Servers in Two Form Factors |
| 2021 | December 2 | Product | Amazon announces AWS re:Post, a crowd-sourced and expert-reviewed Q&A service for technical questions about AWS that replaces the original AWS Forums. |
| 2021 | December 6 | Regional diversification | Amazon launches AWS Top Secret-West. |
| 2022 | July 7 | Product (CPU) | Apple M1 System on Chip powered EC2 M1 Mac instances launched. |
| 2022 | November 22 | Regional diversification | Amazon launches ap-south-2 in Hyderabad. |
| 2023 | January 23 | Regional diversification | Amazon launches ap-southeast-4 in Melbourne. |
| 2023 | February 13 | Product | M7g and R7g instances powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton3 processors now available which are designed to deliver up to 25% better performance than the equivalent sixth-generation (M6g and R6g) instances. |
| 2023 | April 3 | Product | AWS Service Catalog support for Terraform open source. |
| 2023 | April 13 | Product (AI) | Amazon CodeWhisperer, real-time AI coding companion. |
| 2023 | April 20 | Product | Amazon CodeCatalyst, unified software development service. |
| 2023 | May 4 | Product (AI) | ml.inf2 (Inferentia2) and ml.trn1 (Trainium) family of instances on Amazon SageMaker for deploying machine learning (ML) models for Real-time and Asynchronous inference. |
| 2023 | May 30 | Product | Amazon Security Lake, centralized data lake for cloud and on-premises security data. |
| 2023 | August 1 | Regional diversification | Amazon launches il-central-1 in Israel (Tel Aviv). |
| 2023 | September 28 | Product (AI) | Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service for AI foundation models. |
| 2023 | October 10 | Solution (AI) | Generative AI Application Builder on AWS facilitates the development, rapid experimentation, and deployment of generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications without requiring deep experience in AI. |
| 2023 | November 28 | Product (AI) | Amazon announces Amazon Q, a virtual assistant using generative artificial intelligence. |
| 2023 | November 27 | Product (AI) | Amazon SageMaker HyperPod reduces time to train foundation models (FMs) by up to 40% by providing purpose-built infrastructure for distributed training at scale |
| 2024 | March 4 | Product (AI) | Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet foundation model is now available in Amazon Bedrock |
| 2024 | April 23 | Product (AI) | Amazon makes model evaluation capability for Amazon Bedrock generally available. |
| 2024 | April 23 | Product (AI) | Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock now available with new safety filters and privacy controls. |
| 2024 | April 23 | Product (AI) | Custom Model Import for Bedrock |
| 2024 | April 30 | Product (AI) | Amazon Q Business now GA and Amazon Q Apps in Preview |
| 2024 | May 7 | Product (AI) | Amazon Bedrock Studio, a web interface providing the easiest way for developers across an organization to collaborate and build generative AI applications |
| 2024 | May 7 | Product (AI) | Amazon Titan Text Premier is a high-performance and cost-effective large language model engineered for enterprise-grade text generation applications, including optimized performance for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and Agents |
| 2024 | June 19 | Product (AI) | Amazon SageMaker now offers a fully managed MLflow capability |
| 2024 | June 20 | Product (AI) | Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet foundation model, which is its most intelligent model to date, is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. |
| 2024 | December 03 | Product (AI) | Amazon EC2 Trn2 Instances and Trn2 UltraServers for AI/ML training and inference are now available |
| 2025 | January | Product (AI) | DeepSeek-R1 models now available on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI |
| 2025 | March | Product (AI) | DeepSeek-R1 is available fully-managed in Amazon Bedrock |

## Partnerships

| Year | Month and date (if available) | Event type | Details |
| 2007 | June 1 | Partnerships | Dropbox is founded. Dropbox, a storage and backup service aimed at ordinary consumers and businesses, would grow into one of the biggest users of Amazon S3. |
| 2008 | August | Partnerships | Netflix announces it will start moving all its data to the Amazon Web Services cloud. It finally shifts all its data to the cloud by January 2016. |
| 2009 | June 15 | Partnerships | Zynga announces that it will move its data to AWS. |
| 2009 | November | Partnerships | reddit announces that it has finished decommissioning its physical servers and moves its data to AWS. |
| 2010 | March | Partnerships | Pinterest launches the first prototype of its product. Pinterest would grow into one of AWS's most famous customers and a case study in how a startup can grow extremely quickly by relying on the cloud. |
| 2011 | June | Partnerships | Zynga CEO Allan Leinwand announces that Zynga will shift its data from AWS to its own zCloud. It moves from 20% to 80% of its data being stored on the zCloud from the beginning to the end of 2011. |
| 2011 | August 16 | Partnerships | AWS launches AWS GovCloud, a US region designed to meet the regulatory requirements of the United States government, and intended for use by United States government agencies. |
| 2014 | January | Partnerships | Moz announces its decision to move off AWS, citing expenses. |
| 2014 | August 25 | Partnerships | Amazon.com acquires Twitch Interactive for US$970 million. The ability to store Twitch data on AWS is specifically cited as one of the major reasons why Twitch decided to go under Amazon. |
| 2015 | May 8 | Partnerships | Zynga announces that it will move all its data back to AWS, after diversifying away from AWS in 2011. |
| 2016 | February | Partnerships, Competition | Spotify announces it will move its data to Google Cloud. |
| 2016 | May 25 | Partnerships | Salesforce.com, a cloud computing company that makes money primarily through its customer relationship management product suite, selects Amazon Web Services as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider. However, Salesforce.com does not plan to move entirely to Amazon, but rather use Amazon only to meet infrastructure expansion needs in new geographical areas and for specific use cases. On December 2, 2016, the partnership is extended and it is announced that Salesforce will use AWS infrastructure in Canada. |
| 2017 | April | Partnerships | DXC Technology announces it will increase integration with AWS for its enterprise clients. |
| 2020 | May | Partnerships | Kyvos BI acceleration platform announces availability on AWS. |
| 2023 | February 7 | Partnerships | Ateme completes ISV Accelerate Program, ISW Workload Migration and is available on AWS Marketplace. This indicates that Ateme's solutions meet AWS standards and further support its global partnership with AWS. |
| 2023 | September 25 | Partnerships | Amazon and Anthropic selects AWS as its primary cloud provider and will train and deploy its future foundation models on AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips, taking advantage of AWS's high-performance, low-cost machine learning accelerators. |
| 2024 | May 6 | Partnerships | AWS signes a strategic collaboration agreement with Mavenir resulting in jointly architecting Mavenir's technology of cloud-native Telco solutions to transform how operators launch 5G, IP Multimedia Subsystem, Radio Access Network and future network technologies. |

## Amazon Web Services outages

| Year | Month and date (if available) | Event type | Details |
| 2011 | April 21 | Outage | At 12:47 am PDT on April 21, an invalid traffic shift prior to network upgrade caused EBS instances to lose connectivity to one another with an availability zone of US-East-1 region. Once the errors were localized to just one availability zone, the EBS recovery These connectivity errors impacted EBS volume and EC2 instances in multiple availability zones and caused issues for customers until full recovery at 3:00 pm PDT on April 24. |
| 2011 | August 7 | Outage | Power lost in Ireland, EU West region, causing disruption and outage "service disruption began at 10:41 AM PDT on August 7th" (also mentioned but distinct from the outage mentioned above; it happened around the same time as the US outage). Due to followup issues, full restoration of e g EBS and RDS took in the order of days. |
| 2011 | August 8 | Outage | EC2 went down around 10:25 p.m. Eastern in Amazon's U.S. East Region. The cloud outage lasted roughly 30 minutes, but took down the Web sites and services of many major Amazon cloud customers, including Netflix, Reddit and Foursquare. The issue happened in the networks that connect the Availability Zones to the Internet and was primarily caused by a software bug in the router. |
| 2012 | June 29 | Service disruption | A major disruption occurs to the EC2, EBS, and RDS services in a single availability zone (due to a large scale electrical storm which swept through the Northern Virginia area). |
| 2012 | October 22 | Outage | A major outage occurs (due to latent memory leak bug in an operational data collection agent), affecting many sites such as Reddit, Foursquare, Pinterest, and others. |
| 2012 | December 24 | Outage | AWS suffers an outage, causing websites such as Netflix instant video to be unavailable for customers in the Northeastern United States. |
| 2013 | September 13 | Outage | AWS US-East-1 region experienced network connectivity issues affecting instances in a single Availability Zone. We also experienced increased error rates and latencies for the EBS APIs and increased error rates for EBS-backed instance launches. |
| 2014 | November 26 | Service disruption | Amazon CloudFront DNS server went down for two hours, starting at 7:15 p.m. EST. The DNS server was back up just after 9 p.m. Some websites and cloud services were knocked offline as the content delivery network failed to fulfill DNS requests during the outage. Nothing major, but worthy of this list because it involved the world's biggest and longest-running cloud. |
| 2015 | September 20 | Outage | The Amazon DynamoDB service experiences an outage in an availability zone in the us-east-1 (North Virginia) region, due to a power outage and inadequate failover procedures. The outage, which occurs on a Sunday morning, lasts for about five hours (with some residual impact till Monday) and affects a number of related Amazon services include Simple Queue Service, EC2 autoscaling, Amazon CloudWatch, and the online AWS console. A number of customers are negatively affected, including Netflix, but Netflix is able to recover quickly because of its strong disaster recovery procedures. |
| 2016 | June 5 | Outage | AWS Sydney experiences an outage for several hours as a result of severe thunderstorms in the region causing a power outage to the data centers. |
| 2017 | February 28 | Outage | Amazon experiences an outage of S3 in us-east-1. There are also related outages for other services in us-east-1 including CloudFormation, autoscaling, Elastic MapReduce, Simple Email Service, and Simple Workflow Service. A number of websites and services using S3, such as Medium, Slack, Imgur and Trello, are affected. AWS's own status dashboard initially fails to reflect the change properly due to a dependency on S3. On March 2, AWS reveals that the outage was caused by an incorrect parameter passed in by an authorized employee while running an established playbook, that ended up deleting more instances than the employee intended. |
| 2018 | March 2 | Service degradation | Starting 6:25 AM PST, Direct Connect experienced connectivity issues related to a power outage issue in their US-East-1 Region. This caused customers to have service interruptions in reaching their EC2 instances. Issue was resolved fully by 10:26 AM PST. |
| 2018 | May 31 | Outage | Beginning at 2:52 pm PDT a small percentage of EC2 servers lost power in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. This resulted in some impaired EC2 instances and degraded performance for some EBS volumes in the affected Availability Zone. Power was restored at 3:22 pm PDT. |
| 2019 | August 23 | Outage | A number of EC2 servers in the Tokyo region shut down due to overheating at 12:36 pm local time, due to a failure in the datacenter control and cooling system. |
| 2019 | August 31 | Outage and data loss | The US-EAST-1 data center suffered a power failure at 4:33 am local time, and the backup generators failed at 6 am. According to AWS, this affected 7.5 percent of the EC2 instances in one of the ten data centers in one of the six Availability Zones in US-EAST-1. However, after restoring power, a number of EBS volumes, which store the filesystems of the EC2 cloud servers, were permanently unrecoverable. This caused downtime for companies such as Reddit. |
| 2019 | October 22–23 | Service degradation from DDoS | AWS sustained a distributed denial of service attack which caused intermittent DNS resolution errors (for their Route 53 DNS service) from 10:30 am PST to 6:30 pm PST. |
| 2020 | November 25 | Outage | Beginning at 9:52 am PST the Kinesis Data Streams API became impaired in the US-EAST-1 Region. This prevented customers from reading or writing data. |
| 2021 | December 7 | Outage | Beginning at 10:45 am PST "an impairment of several network devices" in the US-EAST-1 Region caused widespread errors in all AWS services. The root cause has been mitigated by 4:35 PM PST, but service recovery was still underway causing localized ongoing impairment. |
| 2021 | December 15 | Outage | Region us-west-1 was unavailable for about 30 minutes. |
| 2021 | December 22 | Outage and potential data loss | Power loss in us-east-1 for about 1 hour, followed by extended recovery procedures. AWS attributed the failure to a single availability zone, USE1-AZ4. |
| 2023 | June 13 | Outage | Beginning at 11:49 am PDT, customers experienced increased error rates and latencies for AWS Lambda function invocations within the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region. By 3:37 pm PDT, the AWS Lambda service and all dependent service resumed normal operations. |