AWS Prelude
Tags: aws, database, cloud, beginners
Published: 2023-01-03 16:33:14


**_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 Logo](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/1aclgv8mqst26s7bmtge.png)

**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.

![Cloud Comparison](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/h8kh84awzrcnp7y8tph5.png)

- 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**

![EC2, S3 and RDS images](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/vmgwxsmlqahu4ak4kbuy.png)

- 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

![SQS image](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/wdws6nmsslwkscwmxes5.png)

- 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

![Las Vegas image](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/phyqck2aojv537mfvc2b.png)

- In **April 2013**, Amazon launched its first certification program

![AWS Certificate image](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/qt2ezcrkmm8ssne5a4tq.png)

- 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

![AWS Renewable energy](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/xuxr3lvnegs5g3c5eotp.png)

- In **January 2015**, Amazon Web Services acquired **Annapurna Labs**, an Israel-based microelectronics company for a reported US$350–370M.

![AWS Annapurna Labs](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/gvps2ehsqtujokiekx8d.png)

- 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

![AWS Autoscaling](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/xlriinve86crk4c8tv9f.png)

- 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

![Cloud Service Market](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/vxreep8dmxrkrh4xmfb4.png)

- In **2021**, **DISH Network** announced they will develop and launch its 5G network on AWS.

![AWS Dish Network](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/h3yeo5jgw8qnb5yje0in.png)

- 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.

![AWS Snowcone](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/s54ccq7or8eibu2ee6jt.png)

- 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.

![AWS CodeWhisperer](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/79p83q3cwo6ux8c33z0f.png)

**sources:**
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services
https://www.awsgeek.com/AWS-History/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/author/jbarr/