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* On December 24, 2012, AWS suffered another outage causing websites such as [[Netflix]] to be unavailable for customers in the Northeastern United States.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bishop|first=Bryan|title=Netflix streaming down on some devices due to Amazon issues|url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/12/24/3801978/netflix-streaming-down-on-some-devices-thanks-to-amazon-issues|publisher=The Verge|accessdate=5 February 2013}}</ref> AWS cited their Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service as the cause.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aws.amazon.com/message/680587/ |title=Summary of the December 24, 2012 Amazon ELB Service Event in the US-East Region |publisher=Aws.amazon.com |date=2012-12-24 |accessdate=2013-07-17}}</ref>
* On December 24, 2012, AWS suffered another outage causing websites such as [[Netflix]] to be unavailable for customers in the Northeastern United States.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bishop|first=Bryan|title=Netflix streaming down on some devices due to Amazon issues|url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/12/24/3801978/netflix-streaming-down-on-some-devices-thanks-to-amazon-issues|publisher=The Verge|accessdate=5 February 2013}}</ref> AWS cited their Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service as the cause.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aws.amazon.com/message/680587/ |title=Summary of the December 24, 2012 Amazon ELB Service Event in the US-East Region |publisher=Aws.amazon.com |date=2012-12-24 |accessdate=2013-07-17}}</ref>
* On February 28, 2017, AWS experienced a massive outage of S3 services in its Northern Virginia region. A majority of websites which relied on AWS S3 either hung or stalled, and Amazon reported within five hours that AWS was fully online again.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/|title=Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region|work=amazon.com|accessdate=2 March 2017}}</ref> No data has been reported to have been lost due to the outage. The outage was caused by a [[human error]] made while [[debugging]], that resulted in removing more server capacity than intended, which caused a domino effect of outages.<ref>[https://www.cnet.com/news/aws-s3-service-disruption-a-typo-blew-up-part-of-the-internet-tuesday/ A typo blew up part of the internet Tuesday] CNET, Retrieved March 2, 2017</ref>
* On February 28, 2017, AWS experienced a massive outage of S3 services in its Northern Virginia region. A majority of websites which relied on AWS S3 either hung or stalled, and Amazon reported within five hours that AWS was fully online again.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/|title=Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region|work=amazon.com|accessdate=2 March 2017}}</ref> No data has been reported to have been lost due to the outage. The outage was caused by a [[human error]] made while [[debugging]], that resulted in removing more server capacity than intended, which caused a domino effect of outages.<ref>[https://www.cnet.com/news/aws-s3-service-disruption-a-typo-blew-up-part-of-the-internet-tuesday/ A typo blew up part of the internet Tuesday] CNET, Retrieved March 2, 2017</ref>

== List of products ==
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=== Compute ===
* [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]] (EC2) is an [[Cloud computing#Infrastructure as a service .28IaaS.29|IaaS]] service providing virtual servers controllable by an API, based on the [[Xen]] hypervisor. Equivalent remote services include [[Microsoft Azure]], [[Google Compute Engine]] and [[Rackspace]]; and on-premises equivalents such as [[OpenStack]] or [[Eucalyptus (software)|Eucalyptus]].
* [[Amazon Elastic Beanstalk]] provides a [[Platform as a service|PaaS]] service for hosting applications, equivalent services include [[Google App Engine]] or [[Heroku]] or [[OpenShift]] for on-premises use.
* [[Amazon Lambda]] [[serverless computing]] platform runs code in response to AWS internal or external events such as http requests, transparently providing the resource required.<ref name="AWS-Lambda">{{cite web|url=http://aws.amazon.com/lambda/|title=AWS Lambda|website=Amazon Web Services|accessdate=23 April 2015}}</ref> Lambda is tightly integrated with AWS but similar services such as [[Google Cloud Functions]] and open solutions such as [[OpenWhisk]].

=== Networking ===
* [[Amazon Route 53]] provides a scalable [[List of managed DNS providers|Managed DNS]] service providing [[Domain Name System|Domain Name Services]].
* [[Amazon Virtual Private Cloud]] (VPC) creates a logically isolated set of AWS resources which can be connected using a [[Virtual Private Network|VPN]] connection. This competes against on-premises solutions such as [[OpenStack]] or [[HPE Helion Eucalyptus]] used in conjunction with [[PaaS]] software.
* AWS Direct Connect provides dedicated network connections into AWS data centers.
* Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple [[Amazon EC2]] instances.
* AWS Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) provides up to 25 Gbit/s of network bandwidth to an [[Amazon EC2]] instance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/elastic-network-adapter-high-performance-network-interface-for-amazon-ec2/|title=Elastic Network Adapter – High Performance Network Interface for Amazon EC2|website=Amazon.com|access-date=2016-07-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html|title=Enhanced Networking on Linux - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud|website=docs.aws.amazon.com|access-date=2017-12-01}}</ref>

=== Content delivery ===
* [[Amazon CloudFront]], a [[content delivery network]] (CDN) for distributing objects to so-called "edge locations" near the request

===Contact center===
* [[Amazon Connect]] is a self-service, cloud-based contact center service available to business. Amazon Connect is based on the same contact center technology used extensively by Amazon customer service associates around the world.

=== Storage and content delivery ===
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* [[Amazon S3|Amazon Simple Storage Service]] (S3) provides scalable [[object storage]] accessible from a Web Service interface. Applicable use cases include backup/archiving, file (including media) storage and hosting, static website hosting, application data hosting, and more.
* [[Amazon Glacier]] provides long-term storage options (compared to S3). High redundancy and availability, but low-frequency access times. Intended for archiving data.
* AWS Storage Gateway, an [[iSCSI]] block storage virtual appliance with cloud-based backup.
* [[Amazon Elastic Block Store]] (EBS) provides persistent [[block-level storage]] volumes for EC2.
* AWS Import/Export, accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport.
* Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) a file storage service for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.
* [[Amazon Simple Storage Service|Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration]] available since April 2016<ref>https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/04/transfer-files-into-amazon-s3-up-to-300-percent-faster/</ref>enables transfers of files over long distances between your client and an [[S3 bucket]]<ref>https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/transfer-acceleration.html</ref>

=== Database ===
* [[Amazon DynamoDB]] provides a scalable, low-latency [[NoSQL]] online Database Service backed by [[Solid-state drive|SSDs]].
* [[Amazon ElastiCache]], available since 2011, provides [[In-memory database|in-memory]] [[Cache (computing)|caching]] for web applications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/|title=Amazon ElastiCache|website=Amazon.com|access-date=2016-07-06}}</ref> This is Amazon's implementation of [[Memcached]] and [[Redis]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aws.amazon.com/redis/|title=Amazon ElastiCache for Redis|website=Amazon.com|access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref>
* [[Amazon Neptune]] provides a full-managed graph database service. It supports open graph APIs for both [[Gremlin (programming language)|Gremlin]] and [[SPARQL]].
* [[Amazon Relational Database Service]] (RDS) provides scalable [[database]] servers with [[MySQL]], [[Oracle (database)|Oracle]], [[Microsoft SQL Server|SQL Server]], and [[PostgreSQL]] support.<ref>{{cite web | publisher = [[The Register]] | title = Make room, guys. Here comes the Postgres with the mostess on AWS | url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/15/amazon_postgresql_rds_support/ | author = Jack Clark | date = 15 November 2013 | accessdate = 2013-11-22}}</ref>
* [[Amazon Redshift]] provides petabyte-scale [[data warehouse|data warehousing]] with column-based storage and multi-node compute.
* [[Amazon SimpleDB]] allows developers to run queries on structured data. It operates in concert with EC2 and S3.
* AWS Data Pipeline provides reliable service for data transfer between different AWS compute and storage services (e.g., Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR). In other words, this service is simply a data-driven workload management system, which provides a management API for managing and monitoring of data-driven workloads in cloud applications.<ref>[http://aws.amazon.com/datapipeline/ AWS Data Pipeline]. Aws.amazon.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-09.</ref>
* Amazon Aurora provides a MySQL-compatible relational database engine that has been created specifically for the AWS infrastructure that claims faster speeds and lower costs that are realized in larger databases.

=== Mobile services ===
* [https://aws.amazon.com/mobile/ AWS Mobile Hub] for adding and configuring mobile app features, including authentication, data storage, backend logic, push notifications, content delivery, and analytics.
* [https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/ Amazon Cognito] for adding user sign-up and sign-in to mobile and web apps.
* [https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/ AWS Device Farm] app testing service for testing and interacting with your Android, iOS, and web apps on many devices at once, or reproduce issues on a device in real time..
* [https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/ Amazon Pinpoint] helps to engage customers via email, SMS and Mobile Push messages, tracking overall customer and engagement activity.

=== Deployment ===
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* [[AWS CloudFormation]] announced on February 2011<ref>https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/02/25/introducing-aws-cloudformation/</ref> provides a [[Infrastructure as Code#Declarative|declarative]] template-based [[Infrastructure as Code]] model for configuring AWS.{{sfnp|AWS in Action|Wittig|2016|page=112}}
* [[AWS Elastic Beanstalk]] provides deployment and management of applications in the cloud.
* AWS OpsWorks provides configuration of EC2 services using [[Chef (software)|Chef]].
* AWS CodeDeploy provides automated code deployment to EC2 instances.

=== Management ===
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* [https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/ AWS Systems Manager] gives you visibility and control of infrastructure on AWS and on-premises through a unified user interface to view operational data from multiple AWS services and automate operational tasks across AWS resources. Common operational tasks include remote administration without SSH, secrets management, collecting software inventory, automated patching, and configuration management.
* Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an implicit service, providing the authentication infrastructure used to authenticate access to the various services.
* [[AWS Directory Service]] a managed service that allows connection to AWS resources with an existing on-premises [[Microsoft Active Directory]] or to set up a new, stand-alone directory in the AWS Cloud.
* [[Amazon CloudWatch]], provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources and applications, starting with EC2.
* AWS Management Console (AWS Console), A web-based point and click interface to manage and monitor the Amazon infrastructure suite including (but not limited to) [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud|EC2]], [[Amazon Elastic Block Store|EBS]], [[Amazon S3|S3]], [[Amazon Simple Queue Service|SQS]], [[Amazon Elastic MapReduce]], and [[Amazon CloudFront]]. A mobile application for [[Android (operating system)|Android]] has support for some of the management features from the console.
* [[Amazon CloudHSM]] - The AWS CloudHSM service helps to meet corporate, contractual and [[regulatory compliance]] requirements for data security by using dedicated [[Hardware Security Module]] (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud.
* [[AWS Key Management Service]] (KMS) a managed service to create and control [[encryption key]]s.
* [[Amazon EC2 Container Service]] (ECS) a highly scalable and fast container management service using [[Docker (software)|Docker]] containers.
* [[Amazon EC2 Container Registry]] (ECR) to store, manage, and deploy [[Docker (software)|Docker container]] images was announced as general available on December 2015<ref>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-container-registry-now-generally-available/</ref>
* [[Amazon Fargate]] service introduced in November 2017<ref>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-fargate/</ref> allows users to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters.

=== Application services ===
* Amazon API Gateway is a service for publishing, maintaining and securing web service APIs.
* Amazon CloudSearch provides basic full-text search and indexing of textual content.
* Amazon DevPay, currently in limited [[beta version]], is a billing and account management system for applications that developers have built atop Amazon Web Services.
* Amazon Elastic Transcoder (ETS) provides video transcoding of S3 hosted videos, marketed primarily as a way to convert source files into mobile-ready versions.
* Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) provides bulk and transactional email sending.
* [[Amazon Simple Queue Service]] (SQS) provides a hosted message queue for web applications.
* [[Amazon Simple Notification Service]] (SNS) provides a hosted multi-protocol "[[Push technology|push]]" messaging for applications.
* Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) is a workflow service for building scalable, resilient applications.
* Amazon Cognito is a user identity and data synchronization service that securely manages and synchronizes app data for users across their mobile devices.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon Web Services|url=http://aws.amazon.com/products/?nc2=h_l2_p|website=AWS Products|publisher=Amazon Web Services|accessdate=23 April 2015}}</ref>
* Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a low-latency service that streams and resources intensive applications and games from the cloud using NICE DVC technology.<ref>https://aws.amazon.com/appstream2/details/ NICE DCV for Streaming</ref>

=== Analytics ===
* [[Amazon Athena]] is an ETL-like service launched in November 2016. It allows server-less querying of S3 content using standard SQL.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon Athena|url=https://aws.amazon.com/athena/|website=Amazon Web Services|accessdate=7 March 2017}}</ref>
* [[Amazon Elastic MapReduce]] (EMR) Provides a [[Platform as a service|PaaS]] service delivering [[Hadoop]] for running [[MapReduce]] queries framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud|EC2]] and [[Amazon Simple Storage Service|Amazon S3]].
* Amazon Machine Learning is a service that assists developers of all skill levels to use machine learning technology.
* Amazon Kinesis is a cloud-based service for real-time data processing over large, distributed data streams. It streams data in real time with the ability to process thousands of data streams on a per-second basis. The service, designed for real-time apps, allows developers to pull any amount of data, from any number of sources, scaling up or down as needed. It has some similarities in functionality to [[Apache Kafka]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon Kinesis|url=https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/|website=Amazon Web Services|accessdate=9 July 2015}}</ref>
* Amazon Elasticsearch (ES) Service, available since October 2015, provides fully managed [[Elasticsearch]] and [[Kibana]] services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/|title=Amazon Elasticsearch Service|website=Amazon.com|access-date=2016-10-16}}</ref><ref>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-elasticsearch-service/</ref>
* [[Amazon QuickSight]] is a business intelligence, analytics, and visualization tool launched in November 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon QuickSight|url=https://quicksight.aws/|website=Amazon Web Services|accessdate=7 March 2017}}</ref> It provides ad-hoc services by connecting to AWS or non-AWS data sources.
* Amazon Sagemaker is an integrated deep learning development and deployment platform, launched in November 2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon Sagemaker|url=http://www.tropos.io/blog/aws-reinvent-machine-learning-engineers|website=Amazon Web Services|accessdate=15 December 2017}}</ref> I

=== Miscellaneous ===

* [[Cloud9 IDE|AWS Cloud9]], a cloud IDE for writing, running, and debugging code.<ref>{{cite web|title=AWS Cloud9|url=https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/|publisher=Amazon Web Services|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
* AWS Athena, [https://www.openbridge.com/warehouse/amazon-athena optimize and automate] the loading of data to AWS Athena query service<ref>{{cite web|title=AWS Athena Zero Administration Data Pipelines|url=https://blog.openbridge.com/aws-athena-automated-60-second-setup-zero-administration-and-automatic-optimization-eba474e9897a|publisher=Openbridge|accessdate=11 January 2018}}</ref>
* Amazon Marketplace Web Service (MWS) allows users to manage complete shipment process from creating listing to downloading shipment label using API.
* Amazon Fulfillment Web Service provided a programmatic [[web service]] for sellers to ship items to and from Amazon using Fulfillment by Amazon, later replaced by Amazon marketplace Web service.
* Amazon Historical Pricing provides access to Amazon's historical sales data from its affiliates. (It appears that this service has been discontinued.)
* [[Amazon Mechanical Turk]] (Mturk) manages small units of work distributed among many persons.
* [[Amazon Product Advertising API]], formerly known as Amazon Associates Web Service (A2S) and Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS), provides access to Amazon's product data and electronic commerce functionality.
* Amazon Gift Code On Demand (AGCOD) for Corporate Customers<ref>[http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1194095&highlight= Amazon Media Room: Press Releases]. Phx.corporate-ir.net. Retrieved on 2013-08-09.</ref> enables companies to distribute Amazon gift codes instantly in any denomination.
* AWS Partner Network (APN) technical information and sales and marketing support. Launched in April 2012, the APN is made up of Technology Partners including Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), tool providers, platform providers, and others.<ref>Darrow, Barb. [http://gigaom.com/2012/04/18/amazon-seeking-to-relieve-partner-angst-launches-partner-program/ Amazon, seeking to relieve partner angst, launches partner program], [[GigaOM]], April 18, 2012, Retrieved February 27, 2013</ref><ref>Ricknäs, Mikael. [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226320/Amazon_lays_groundwork_for_AWS_Partner_Network Amazon lays groundwork for AWS Partner Network], Computerworld, IDG, April 18, 2012, Retrieved February 27, 2013</ref><ref>Sharwood, Simon. [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/18/amazon_partner_network/ Amazon Web services revamps partner program], The Register, April 18, 2012, Retrieved February 27, 2013</ref>
* [[Amazon Lumberyard]] is a freeware triple-A game engine integrated with AWS.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://venturebeat.com/2016/02/12/inside-amazons-decision-to-make-a-video-game-engine/ | title=Inside Amazon’s decision to make a video game engine | date=February 12, 2016 | accessdate=February 20, 2016 | last=Takahashi | first=Dean | website=[[VentureBeat]]}}</ref>
* Amazon Chime is a collaboration service for voice, [[Videotelephony|video conference]], and [[instant messaging]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Novet |first=Jordan |url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/13/aws-launches-amazon-chime-a-skype-for-business-competitor/ |title=AWS launches Amazon Chime, a Skype for Business competitor |work=[[VentureBeat]] |date=2017-02-13 |accessdate=2017-02-14 }}</ref>

===Objects and identifier prefixes===
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Every object in AWS has an identifier (Resource ID) with a prefix that characterizes the type of object. For example, i-01163e2ca54a0359e is the ID for an EC2 instance—we know it is an instance because of the i- prefix. Here is a partial list of ID prefixes and their associated object types:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! ID Prefix !! Object type
|-
| i || EC2 Instance
|-
| ami || Amazon Machine Image
|-
| vol || Elastic Block Store Volume
|-
| snap || Elastic Block Store Snapshot
|-
| sg || EC2 Security Group
|-
| vpc || Virtual Private Cloud
|-
| subnet || Virtual Private Cloud Subnet
|-
| rtb || Virtual Private Cloud Route table
|-
| igw || Virtual Private Cloud Internet Gateway
|-
| dopt || Virtual Private Cloud DHCP Options Set
|-
| eipalloc || EC2 Elastic IP Allocation
|-
| eipassoc || EC2 Elastic IP Association
|-
| eni || Elastic Network Interface
|-
| db || Relational Database Service database
|-
| cluster || RDS cluster
|-
| j || EMR cluster
|-
| ml || Machine Learning model
|-
| ds || Machine Learning data source
|-
| ws || WorkSpace
|}

Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) uniquely identify AWS resources.<ref name="arn">[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-arns-and-namespaces.htmlAmazon Resource Names (ARNs) and AWS Service Namespaces]</ref>


== Availability and topology ==
== Availability and topology ==

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"AWS" redirects here. For other uses, see AWS (disambiguation).
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Amazon Web Services Logo
OwnerAmazon
Key peopleAndy Jassy (CEO)[1]
IndustryWeb service, cloud computing
RevenueIncrease $17.4 billion (2017)[2]
SubsidiariesAnnapurna Labs
AWS Elemental
URLaws.amazon.com
LaunchedMarch 2006; 18 years ago (2006-03)[3][4]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments, on a paid subscription basis. The technology allows subscribers to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet. AWS's version of virtual computers emulate most of the attributes of a real computer including hardware (CPU(s) & GPU(s) for processing, local/RAM memory, hard-disk/SSD storage); a choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded application software such as web servers, databases, CRM, etc. Each AWS system also virtualizes its console I/O (keyboard, display, and mouse), allowing AWS subscribers to connect to their AWS system using a modern browser. The browser acts as a window into the virtual computer, letting subscribers log-in, configure and use their virtual systems just as they would a real physical computer. They can choose to deploy their AWS systems to provide internet-based services for themselves and their customers.

The AWS technology is implemented at server farms throughout the world, and maintained by the Amazon subsidiary. Fees are based on a combination of usage, the hardware/OS/software/networking features chosen by the subscriber, required availability, redundancy, security, and service options. Subscribers can pay for a single virtual AWS computer, a dedicated physical computer, or clusters of either. As part of the subscription agreement,[6] Amazon provides security for subscribers' system. AWS operates from many global geographical regions including 6 in North America.[7]

In 2017, AWS comprised more than 90 services spanning a wide range including computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, mobile, developer tools, and tools for the Internet of Things. The most popular include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Most services are not exposed directly to end users, but instead offer functionality through APIs for developers to use in their applications. Amazon Web Services' offerings are accessed over HTTP, using the REST architectural style and SOAP protocol.

Amazon markets AWS to subscribers as a way of obtaining large scale computing capacity more quickly and cheaply than building an actual physical server farm.[8] All services are billed based on usage, but each service measures usage in varying ways. As of 2017, AWS owns a dominant 34% of all cloud (IaaS, PaaS) while the next three competitors Microsoft, Google, and IBM have 11%, 8%, 6% respectively according to Synergy Group.[9][10]

History

Further information: Timeline of Amazon Web Services
AWS Summit 2013 event in NYC.

The AWS platform was launched in July 2002, [4] in the beginning, the platform consisted of only a few disparate tools and services. Then in late 2003, the AWS concept was publicly reformulated when Chris Pinkham and Benjamin Black presented a paper describing a vision for Amazon's retail computing infrastructure that was completely standardized, completely automated, and would rely extensively on web services for services such as storage and would draw on internal work already underway. Near the end of their paper, they mentioned the possibility of selling access to virtual servers as a service, proposing the company could generate revenue from the new infrastructure investment.[11] In November 2004, the first AWS service launched for public usage: Simple Queue Service (SQS).[12] Thereafter Pinkham and lead developer Christopher Brown developed the Amazon EC2 service, with a team in Cape Town, South Africa.[13]

Amazon Web Services was officially re-launched on March 14, 2006,[4] 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,[11] as a service offered to other developers, web sites, client-side applications, and companies.[3] Andy Jassy, AWS founder and vice president in 2006, said at the time that Amazon S3 (one of the first and most scalable elements of AWS) "helps free developers from worrying about where they are going to store data, whether it will be safe and secure, if it will be available when they need it, the costs associated with server maintenance, or whether they have enough storage available. Amazon S3 enables developers to focus on innovating with data, rather than figuring out how to store it.".[4] In 2016 Jassy was promoted to CEO of the division.[14] Reflecting the success of AWS, his annual compensation in 2017 hit nearly $36 million.[15]

To support industry-wide training and skills standardization, AWS began offering a certification program for computer engineers, on April 30, 2013, to highlight expertise in cloud computing.[16]

James Hamilton, an AWS engineer, wrote a retrospective article in 2016 to highlight the ten-year history of the online service from 2006 to 2016. As an early fan and outspoken proponent of the technology, he had joined the AWS engineering team in 2008.[17]

In 2016 AWS partnered with Digital Currency Group to create a laboratory environment allowing companies to experiment with blockchain technologies.[18]

In January 2018, Amazon launched an autoscaling service on AWS.[19][20]

Growth and profitability

In November 2010, it was reported that all of Amazon.com's retail sites had been completely moved under the AWS umbrella.[21] Prior to 2012, AWS was considered a part of Amazon.com and so its revenue was not delineated in Amazon financial statements. In that year industry watchers for the first time estimated AWS revenue to be over $1.5 billion.[22]

In April 2015, Amazon.com reported AWS was profitable, with sales of $1.57 billion in the first quarter of the year and $265 million of operating income. Founder Jeff Bezos described it as a fast-growing $5 billion business; analysts described it as "surprisingly more profitable than forecast".[23] In October 2015, Amazon.com said in its Q3 earnings report that AWS's operating income was $521 million, with operating margins at 25 percent. AWS's 2015 Q3 revenue was $2.1 billion, a 78% increase from 2014's Q3 revenue of $1.17 billion.[24] 2015 Q4 revenue for the AWS segment increased 69.5% y/y to $2.4 billion with 28.5% operating margin, giving AWS a $9.6 billion run rate. In 2015, Gartner estimated that AWS customers are deploying 10x more infrastructure on AWS than the combined adoption of the next 14 providers.[25]

In 2016 Q1, revenue was $2.57 billion with net income of $604 million, a 64% increase over 2015 Q1 that resulted in AWS being more profitable than Amazon's North American retail business for the first time.[26] In the first quarter of 2016, Amazon experienced a 42% rise in stock value as a result of increased earnings, of which AWS contributed 56% to corporate profits.[27][28]

AWS had $17.46 billion in annual revenue in 2017. [29]

Customer base

  • On March 14, 2006, Amazon said in a press release:[4] "More than 150,000 developers have signed up to use Amazon Web Services since its inception."
  • In November 2012, AWS hosted its first customer event in Las Vegas.[30]
  • On May 13, 2013, AWS was awarded an Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.[31]
  • In October 2013, it was revealed that AWS was awarded a $600M contract with the CIA.[32]
  • During August 2014, AWS received Department of Defense-Wide provisional authorization for all U.S. Regions.[33]
  • During the 2015 re:Invent keynote, AWS disclosed that they have more than a million active customers every month in 190 countries, including nearly 2,000 government agencies, 5,000 education institutions and more than 17,500 nonprofits.
  • On April 5, 2017, AWS and DXC Technology (formed from a merger of CSC and HPE) announced an expanded alliance to increase access of AWS features for enterprise clients in existing data centers.[34]

Notable customers include NASA,[35] the Obama presidential campaign of 2012,[36] Kempinski Hotels,[37] and Netflix.[38]

Significant service outages

  • On April 20, 2011, AWS suffered a major outage. Parts of the Elastic Block Store (EBS) service became "stuck" and could not fulfill read/write requests. It took at least two days for service to be fully restored.[39]
  • On June 29, 2012, several websites that rely on Amazon Web Services were taken offline due to a severe storm in Northern Virginia, where AWS' largest data center cluster is located.[40]
  • On October 22, 2012, a major outage occurred, affecting many sites such as Reddit, Foursquare, Pinterest, and others. The cause was a memory leak bug in an operational data collection agent.[41]
  • On December 24, 2012, AWS suffered another outage causing websites such as Netflix to be unavailable for customers in the Northeastern United States.[42] AWS cited their Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service as the cause.[43]
  • On February 28, 2017, AWS experienced a massive outage of S3 services in its Northern Virginia region. A majority of websites which relied on AWS S3 either hung or stalled, and Amazon reported within five hours that AWS was fully online again.[44] No data has been reported to have been lost due to the outage. The outage was caused by a human error made while debugging, that resulted in removing more server capacity than intended, which caused a domino effect of outages.[45]

Availability and topology

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Map showing Amazon Web Services' availability zones within geographic regions around the world.
Amazon Web Services in Kenya (2017).

As of 2017, AWS has distinct operations in 16 geographical "regions":[7] 6 in North America, 1 in South America, 4 in EMEA, and 6 in Asia Pacific.

AWS has announced 6 new regions that will be coming online in China, Bahrain, France, Hong Kong, Sweden, and in the US-East region for government usage.[7]

Each region is wholly contained within a single country and all of its data and services stay within the designated region.[6] Each region has multiple "Availability Zones",[46] which consist of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity, housed in separate facilities. Availability Zones do not automatically provide additional scalability or redundancy within a region, since they are intentionally isolated from each other to prevent outages from spreading between Zones. Several services can operate across Availability Zones (e.g., S3, DynamoDB) while others can be configured to replicate across Zones to spread demand and avoid downtime from failures.

As of December 2014, Amazon Web Services operated an estimated 1.4 million servers across 28 availability zones.[47] The global network of AWS Edge locations consists of 54 points of presence worldwide, including locations in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America.[48]

In 2014, AWS claimed its aim was to achieve 100% renewable energy usage in the future.[49] In the United States, AWS's partnerships with renewable energy providers include Community Energy of Virginia, to support the US East region;[50] Pattern Development, in January 2015, to construct and operate Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge; [51] Iberdrola Renewables, LLC, in July 2015, to construct and operate Amazon Wind Farm US East; EDP Renewables North America, in November 2015, to construct and operate Amazon Wind Farm US Central;[52] and Tesla Motors, to apply battery storage technology to address power needs in the US West (Northern California) region.[50]

Pop-up lofts

AWS also has "pop-up lofts" in different locations around the world.[53] These market AWS to entrepreneurs and startups in different tech industries in a physical location. Visitors can work or relax inside the loft, or learn more about what they can do with AWS. In June 2014, AWS opened their first temporary pop-up loft in San Francisco.[54] In May 2015 they expanded to New York City,[55][56] and in September 2015 expanded to Berlin.[57] AWS opened their fourth location, in Tel Aviv from March 1, 2016 to March 22, 2016.[58] A pop-up loft was open in London from September 10 to October 29, 2015.[59]

Charitable work

In 2017 AWS launched a program in the United Kingdom to help young adults and military veterans retrain in technology-related skills. In partnership with the Prince's Trust and the Ministry of Defence (MoD), AWS will help to provide re-training opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and former soldiers. AWS is working alongside a number of partner companies including Cloudreach, Sage, EDF Energy and Tesco Bank.[60]

Key people

See also

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