An introduction to AWS
AWS has been around since 2002; it started by offering a few services that were not linked in any way. It progressed in this form until early 2006 when it was relaunched. The relaunched AWS brought together three services:
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): This is the AWS compute service
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): Amazon’s scalable object storage service
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS): This service provides a message queue, primarily for web applications
Since 2006, it has grown from three unique services to over 160, covering over 15 primary areas such as the following:
- Compute
- Storage
- Database
- Networking and content delivery
- Machine learning analytics security, identity, and compliance
- Internet of things
At its earnings call in October 2023, it was revealed that AWS had USD 23.06 billion in revenue in the third quarter of 2023, good for a service that initially...
