Introducing Amazon Web Services
AWS is a cloud infrastructure platform owned and operated by the e-commerce giant Amazon, which you probably already guessed, given the name.
The company began experimenting with cloud services in 2000, developing and deploying application programming interfaces (APIs) for their internal and external retail partners to consume. As more and more of the Amazon retail partners consumed more of the software services and grew at an exponential rate, they realized they would need to build a better and more standardized infrastructure platform to not only host the services they had been developing but also ensure that they could quickly scale as well.
Off the back of this requirement, Amazon engineers Chris Pinkham and Benjamin Black wrote a white paper, which Jeff Bezos personally approved in early 2004. The paper described an infrastructure platform where the compute and storage elements could all be deployed programmatically.
The first public acknowledgment...
