TIMELINE HOW AWS BECAME THE LARGEST CLOUD COMPUTING PROVIDER ON THE PLANET As Amazon Web Services (AWS) annualised revenue run rate hits US$71bn, Technology Magazine looks back on how this leviathan of the enterprise IT world was born and how it evolved.
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Product launch Infrastructure changes approved Benjamin Black and Chris Pinkham write a short paper describing a vision for Amazon infrastructure that, in Black's words, "was completely standardised, completely automated, and relied extensively on web services for things like storage." Jeff Bezos approved the idea of experimenting with Amazon’s infrastructure in 2004, with the Amazon Web Services blog also launched the same year.
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March the 14th of 2006, AWS launched officially with the Simple Store Service. The Simple Queue Service would follow on July the 13th as the Infrastructure-as-a-service model began to take shape. The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) — which would form a core part of the Amazon cloud platform — followed on August 25, but the service is not available yet to the general public. In 2007, Amazon EC2 was available in unlimited public beta, so that anybody can sign up and start using it.
Rivals set out their stalls 2008 brought the launch of the Google App Engine, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications, which signals the dawn of Google Cloud. The same year, Amazon launched a content delivery network, Amazon CloudFront. 2010 saw Microsoft enter the fray with the Azure platform, as Amazon announced that Amazon.com has migrated its retail services to AWS.
