When did AWS launch?

Providing these services in an on-demand fashion using a utility pricing model had the potential to radically change this. AWS delivered the first storage service (Amazon S3) in the spring of 2006 and compute (Amazon EC2) in the fall of that year. The rest is public history… The excess capacity story is a myth. read more

Amazon Web Services was officially re-launched on March 14, 2006, combining the three initial service offerings of Amazon S3 cloud storage, SQS, and EC2. The AWS platform finally provided an integrated suite of core online services, as Chris Pinkham and Benjamin Black had proposed back in 2003, as a service offered to other developers, web sites, client-side applications, and companies. read more

In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now commonly known as cloud computing. One of the key benefits of cloud computing is the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business. read more

Amazon Web Services is proud to announce the launch of its new Solutions Catalog, a directory showcasing the innovations of Amazon Web Services Developers. Businesses, consumers, developers, Amazon Associates and Marketplace Sellers can browse, search for, and rate innovative applications built for them using any of our services. read more