Amazon Web Services
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. Clients will often use this in combination with autoscaling. These cloud computing web services provide various services related to networking, compute, storage, middleware, IoT and other processing capacity, as well as software tools via AWS server farms. This frees clients from managing, scaling, and patching hardware and operating systems.
One of the foundational services is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which allows users to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, with extremely high availability, which can be interacted with over the internet via REST APIs, a CLI or the AWS console. AWS's virtual computers emulate most of the attributes of a real computer, including hardware central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) for processing; local/RAM memory; Hard-disk(HDD)/SSD storage; a choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded application software such as web servers, databases, and customer relationship management (CRM).
Some of the key events about Amazon Web Services
- 2002Launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an internal infrastructure platform
- 2006Introduced Amazon S3, a cloud storage service, and Amazon EC2, a virtual server service
- 2009Released Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for secure, isolated cloud environments
- 2010Launched Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network service
- 2011AWS experienced a major outage affecting many popular websites and services
- 2012Introduced Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service
- 2012AWS suffered a power outage in its US-East-1 region, disrupting services for several hours
- 2014Released AWS Lambda, pioneering serverless computing
- 2015Achieved carbon neutrality for its global infrastructure
- 2015AWS was criticized for its slow response to a security vulnerability in its EC2 service
- 2016Launched Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
- 2017AWS experienced an S3 outage that affected numerous websites and services across the internet
- 2018Introduced Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning platform
- 2018AWS faced backlash for selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies
- 2019AWS was involved in a controversy over providing cloud services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- 2020Committed to powering operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025
- 2020AWS terminated its hosting services for Parler, a social media platform, sparking debates about free speech and tech company power
- 2021AWS experienced multiple outages throughout the year, affecting various online services and businesses
- 2021AWS faced criticism for its market dominance and potential antitrust concerns
- 2022AWS suffered a major outage in its US-East-1 region, impacting numerous websites and services
Disclaimer: This material is written based on information taken from open sources, including Wikipedia, news media, podcasts, and other public sources.
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