It was March 14, 2006 when Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), although the term cloud was officially born in 2007. 10 years have passed since that day and to celebrate Jeff Barr, well-known “frontman” of the official blog, he retraced the “journey” of AWS.
Here’s a list of Amazon’s blog posts that marked the arrival of major changes and new services:
- Amazon S3 (2006)
- Amazon EC2 (2006)
- Amazon Relational Database Service (2009)
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (2009)
- Amazon Dynamo DB (2012)
- Amazon Redshift (2012)
- Amazon Work Spaces (2013)
- Amazon Kinesis (2013)
- AWS Lambda (2014)
- AWS IoT (2015)
According to Jeff, between 2006 and 2016 we have not only witnessed a technological evolution but also a radical transformation of the ICT sector and business models.
Dealing with change isn’t easy Jeff Bezos
These are the words of Amazon’s number one during his speech at the event held for AWS’s tenth birthday. It is necessary to be ready for anything,” Bezos continues, “even for the mainstream affirmation of technologies previously branded as ‘without a future’ or niche.”
When the platform of Jeff Bezos, the inventor of Amazon, took its first steps beyond the unexplored frontier of cloud services, most of the words that currently describe the multiple ways of acquiring, consuming and paying for resources, as well as specific operational approaches, by companies and startups did not yet exist: serverless applications, Internet of Things, containers, microservices, cloud, DevOps, continuous delivery etc.
We at VMengine also started using the platform in 2009, although our contacts with AWS began in 2007.
Today, 10 years have already passed, and to celebrate, AWS is offering a wide range of tutorials and sandboxes, free until the end of March 2016, so you can start discovering how it works and experimenting with the mechanics of Amazon Web Service.