Story of AWS
We think of Amazon as a trillion-dollar giant that’s mostly grown due to its dominance in online retail nearly half of Amazon’s valuation comes from a startup that was founded by Amazon that is now valued at $ 19.7 billion USD not only this but this startup has also been the lifetime of Amazon making up for their largely unprofitable retail business.
people often see Amazon.com as a super greedy retailer that makes a bunch of money off of essentially slave labor but really they’ve been struggling to profit for basically their entire lifetime even as recently as 2017 the retail business lost money as Amazon North America profited 2.8 billion while international Amazon lost 3 billion meaning the retail business lost of two hundred million dollars in total this long-term cache.
The issue was apparent from the late 1990s so Amazon started looking into other businesses to diversify it very early on after some brainstorming their first solution to this problem was merchants calm they realized that their main issue wasn’t pulling in revenue or getting sales as they were getting plenty of this but rather fulfilling all their orders as this left him with no profit
Amazon was pretty bad at developing a development platform but they were great at fulfilling and shipping orders as well as running databases to keep track of all of these activities albeit. AWS would be the first company to offer a cloud infrastructure service for several years their services.
AWS Cloud history
AWS rolled out its first mass-market product, Simple Storage Service, or S3, on March 14, 2006.
That is the official date of birth of AWS!
However, AWS was born in the early 2000s. The company had to redefine its business model as Amazon went through the dot-com bubble business model
Jeff Bezos wanted to cash in the Internet revolution by placing bets everywhere. Yet by the early 2000s, many of these bets had turned to zero.
The primary example was pets-com, which went bust in November 2000.
Amazon had to refocus. Get back on strengthening its e-commerce infrastructure and, most of all, change the paradigm. Move from e-commerce to platform.
In short, to quickly expand the selection of goods while keeping prices low, they had to host as many third-party stores on Amazon.
Thus, AWS also came about as a side effect of Amazon’s change in paradigm (from e-commerce to platform).
For a period in the 2010s, AWS has powered the whole Web2 startup ecosystem (Airbnb, Instagram, Netflix, Pinterest, Slack, and many more).
Short story:
2002: Internally launched
2003: Amazon’s infrastructure is one of its core strengths Idea of market
2004: Launched publicly with SQS
2006: Re-launched publicly with SQS, S3 & EC2
AWS cloud use cases:
- > AWS enables you to build sophisticated, Scalable applications.
- > Applicable to a diverse set of industries
- > Use cases include Enterprise IT, Backup & storage, Big Data analytics, website hosting, mobile and social media
AWS global infrastructure:
- AWS Region
- AWS Availability Zones
- AWS Data Centers
- AWS Edge Locations / Points of Presence
Top 3 Services of AWS
Service NO 1: Amazon EC2
Forget the expensive physical servers with this AWS service that allows us to create virtual machines and manage other features of servers; such as storage, security, ports, etc. With Amazon EC2 you can create servers in minutes with your preferred operating system.
This way you will have more time to take care of your projects and spend less time maintaining your servers.
Service NO 2: Amazon RDS
Amazon helps us to make our infrastructure less complicated, which is why it provides us with the RDS service. But what is it? With this service we will have dedicated instances for databases in a matter of minutes, fully managed by the AWS support team and capable of supporting multiple database engines such as SQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc …
Finally, we will forget all those hours of maintenance and support to our database servers!
Service NO 3: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
What happens to my data in the cloud? Well, Amazon S3 gives us relief when we talk about data, because they have an incredibly secure infrastructure. In addition to intelligently distributing data in different physical regions, they also have integrations such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA / HITECH, FedRAMP, our data will never be compromised.
Is that all?
Of course not, AWS S3 also has high availability, so accessing your information is just a click away, with almost zero latency of 99.9999999999%. Surely now you wonder how expensive this service is? Well, we are pleased to inform you that it is impressively cheap. First, it has a free layer that includes 5 GB of storage and then starts at the cost of $ 0.023 / month for the first 50TB. Continue reading about AWS S3 pricing!
Problems solved by the AWS
- Flexibility: Change resources types when needed
- Cost-Effectiveness: Pay as you go, for what you use
- Scalability: Accommodate larger loads by making hardware stronger or adding additional nodes
- Elasticity: Ability to scale out and scale-in when needed
- High-Availability and fault-tolerance: Build across data centers
- Agility: Rapidly develop, test, and launch software applications
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