AWS

One of The Leading Cloud Provider AWS in the World.

AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. It provides over 170 AWS services to the developers so they can access them from anywhere at the time of need. AWS has customers in over 190 countries worldwide, including 5000 ed-tech institutions and 2000 government organizations. Many companies like ESPN, Adobe, Twitter, Netflix, Facebook, BBC, etc., use AWS services.

Now, before getting started with what AWS is, let us know what cloud computing is.

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is the delivery of online services (such as servers, databases, software) to users. With the help of cloud computing, storing data on local machines is not required. It helps you access data from a remote server. Moreover, it is also used to store and access data from anywhere across the world.

What is AWS?

AWS is a comprehensive cloud service platform offered by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform provides more than 200 fully featured services from data centers located all over the world, and is the world's most comprehensive cloud platform. Amazon web service is an online platform that provides scalable and cost-effective cloud computing solutions. It offers several on-demand operations like compute power, database storage, content delivery, etc., to help corporations scale and grow.

History of AWS

• In the year 2002 - AWS services were launched
• In the year 2006- AWS cloud products were launched
• In the year 2012 - AWS had its first customer event
• In the year 2015- AWS achieved $4.6 billion
• In the year 2016- Surpassed the $10 billion revenue target
• In the year 2016- AWS snowball and AWS snowmobile were launched
• In the year 2019- Released approximately 100 cloud services

AWS Services

Amazon has many services for cloud applications. Let us list down a few key services of the AWS ecosystem. 

Amazon has a list of services:

• Compute service
• Storage
• Database
• Networking and delivery of content
• Security tools
• Developer tools
• Management tools