Amazon Web Services (AWS) Explained
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. The development and growth of AWS represent a fundamental shift in the IT industry towards cloud computing.
History
Around the new millennium, Amazon’s internal infrastructure team began working on improving the scalability of its own infrastructure. Amazon realized that the infrastructure they had developed for their own operations could be offered as a service to other businesses.
The concept of AWS was then born and discussed in a paper by Benjamin Black and Chris Pinkham, which proposed selling Amazon’s infrastructure as a service.
In 2004, AWS officially began with the launch of Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), a system designed to facilitate asynchronous communication between different parts of a software system, in beta form. However, it was not until 2006 that AWS was officially re-launched with a wider array of services.
AWS officially relaunched with three primary services: Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon SQS, and Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud).
Amazon S3 is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability…
