Andy Jassy and 57 other visionaries worked tirelessly to transform the concept of AWS into a reality, focusing on creating services for managing online applications without physical hardware.

In 2003, Amazon recognized the advantage of their infrastructure services in managing and scaling their IT infrastructure efficiently, leading to the birth of Amazon Web Services.

The Alexa Web Information Service provides users with access to website popularity, traffic statistics, and more through an API using data collected by Alexa Internet. It is different from Amazon Alexa, the voice assistant.

Amazon SQS is a managed message queuing service that offers reliable and scalable hosted queues for asynchronous message processing between microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing service that allows users to request human assistance for tasks that are more efficiently done by humans than computers. It can handle processes that are costly to mechanize.

On March 14, 2006, AWS launched Amazon S3 cloud storage, which aimed to free developers from concerns about data storage, security, availability, and costs, allowing them to focus on innovation.

Amazon EC2 is a computing platform service that provides virtual computing environments called instances with various configurations, along with volumes, security groups, static IP addresses, and backup capabilities.

Amazon SimpleDB is a NoSQL datastore service with simple indexing and querying capabilities, offering high availability and flexibility to reduce the burden of database management.

The AWS Service Health Dashboard provides current availability, fault status, and historical data for all AWS regions and services.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers content at edge locations worldwide, connected via the AWS network backbone.

The AWS Management Console is a web interface for managing AWS services, providing a group of service consoles for each AWS service.

Amazon EMR is a big data platform service that enables users to provision capacity, set scaling rules, and run data processing, interactive analytics, and machine learning using open source frameworks like Apache Spark and Apache Hive.

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a load balancing service that automatically distributes communication traffic to multiple targets in multiple availability zones, providing the optimal load balancer for different application needs.

Amazon VPC is a virtual network service that defines a logically isolated virtual private cloud within the AWS Cloud with a set of network components that can be configured in detail, including subnets, route tables, DHCP options, network ACLs, security groups, endpoints and various gateways.

Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service that offers high scalability and availability while automating administrative tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, backups, and fault detection, with database engines such as Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

AWS Tools and SDKs are various types of tools that improve the convenience of using AWS services, SDKs that support the development of applications that handle AWS service resources in supported programming languages.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a managed service that supports high message endurance, encryption, strict ordering (FIFO), and filtering and provides message delivery to supported endpoints including Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, HTTP, email, mobile push notifications, and mobile text messaging (SMS).

On April 20, 2011, AWS experienced a significant outage where parts of the Elastic Block Store service were affected, leading to service disruptions for at least two days.

On June 29, 2012, multiple websites relying on AWS went offline due to a severe storm in Northern Virginia, where AWS's main data center cluster is located.

On October 22, 2012, a major outage impacted sites like Reddit, Foursquare, and Pinterest due to a memory leak bug in an operational data collection agent.

On November 27, 2012, AWS hosted its first major annual conference, re:Invent, focusing on partners and ecosystem. The event featured keynotes by industry leaders and highlighted AWS's global presence.

On December 24, 2012, AWS experienced another outage causing websites like Netflix to be unavailable in the Northeastern United States, attributed to issues with the Elastic Load Balancing service.

A scalable and cost-effective transcoding service converting video and audio files stored in Amazon S3 into media files playable on devices like smartphones, tablets, and PCs.

A fully managed configuration management service automating the configuration, deployment, and management of servers in Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises computing environments using Puppet or Chef.

A cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) providing secure key storage and high-performance cryptographic operations for AWS applications.

In April 30, 2013, AWS initiated a certification program for computer engineers to demonstrate expertise in cloud computing. This program aimed to standardize skills in the industry.

A cloud virtual desktop service providing an Amazon Linux or Windows virtual desktop environment bundled with computing resources, storage space, and software applications.

A real-time data streaming service that enables users to build custom applications capturing and processing large amounts of streaming data at high speed.

A tool that provides reports displaying, analyzing, and visualizing costs and usage by specifying criteria such as daily, monthly, or other time periods, by service, or by resource.

A fully managed user management, authentication, and authorization service for web and mobile applications, consisting of the Amazon Cognito User Pool and the Amazon Cognito ID Pool.

A serverless, event-driven computing service for executing code without server provisioning or management.

A managed business email and calendar service supporting desktop and mobile email clients.

A fully managed service providing a serverless NFS shared file system for Linux workloads without the need for storage provisioning.

A service that allows users to set up custom budgets to track costs and usage in AWS, with actions to address issues like exceeding budgets or falling below thresholds.

A fully managed service that allows users to create APIs using AWS services like Amazon EC2, ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, and Lambda, with features such as traffic management, authentication, monitoring, and version control.

In September 2015, AWS had a pop-up loft in London, providing a physical location for tech engagement.

From March 1 to March 22, 2016, AWS operated a pop-up loft in Tel Aviv, offering a space for tech exploration.

A service that provides real-time analysis of data streams in SQL and Apache Flink without requiring the learning of new programming languages or processing frameworks.

An agentless service that migrates applications to the cloud with minimal downtime by lift-and-shift without changing the architecture or configuration of the application without the use of agents.

An account management service that enables AWS account integration for multiple member accounts from the administrative account that created the organization, including inviting and joining organizations, bulk billing management, hierarchical grouping, policy enforcement, monitoring and auditing, resource sharing, and Single Sign-On (SSO) configuration.

A button that can be used as an AWS IoT 1-Click device and can be programmed with event-driven processing triggered by button presses, such as count processing, usage tracking, call/texting/warning, and starting/stopping online devices and processes using AWS IoT Core, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS, etc.

A fully managed ETL service for cost-effective data classification, cleansing, and moving data between various data stores and streams.

A self-service audit artifact retrieval portal providing on-demand access to AWS compliance documentation and contracts.

A service offering AWS infrastructure operations including service desk, incident management, operations monitoring, security management, and more.

AWS BatchCompute is a service that offers batch management capabilities for running batch computing jobs efficiently in the AWS Cloud.

A service providing Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for launching Amazon EC2 instances pre-installed with popular deep learning frameworks and interfaces.

A communication service enabling online meetings, videoconferences, chats, chat rooms, and business-oriented phone calls through a single application.

On February 28, 2017, AWS experienced a massive outage of S3 services in its Northern Virginia region due to a human error made while debugging. This resulted in removing more server capacity than intended, causing a domino effect of outages.

A service that allows the setup of a contact center capable of scaling to support millions of customers with ease.

A service that provides tools to configure, manage, and track the entire continuous delivery tool chain necessary for coding, building, testing, and deploying application code.

AWS IoT Greengrass is an edge runtime and cloud service for IoT, allowing deployment and running of applications locally on devices and cloud-based management.

A fully managed data security and data privacy service that utilizes machine learning and pattern matching to discover and safeguard sensitive data on Amazon S3.

AWS PrivateLink is a Networking & Content Delivery service providing private connections between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premise networks without exposing traffic to the public Internet.

Reserved Instance (RI) Reporting is a Cloud Financial Management service that allows users to set custom targets for RI utilization and coverage, visualize performance against those targets, and view savings compared to on-demand rates using AWS Cost Explorer.

AWS Amplify is a service offering tools and services to support rapid web and mobile development using AWS services, including an open-source framework, management UI, and static web hosting.

Amazon Sumerian is an AR & VR managed service that allows the creation of mobile and web applications featuring 3D, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) experiences.

AWS DeepRacer is a service that offers an integrated learning system for exploring reinforcement learning and building self-driving applications with autonomous race cars and global racing leagues.

A service that enables visibility and management of communication between services using a service mesh proxy deployed with the application code.

A fully managed service to create and manage scalable blockchain networks using common autonomous decentralized open source frameworks.

An analysis service for documents that uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to detect and extract text, handwritten characters, as well as structured data such as fields, values, their relationships, tables, and other entities from printed or handwritten text with associated confidence scores.

A fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that process streaming data using Apache Kafka.

A machine learning service that can build personalized recommendations for users of the application.

A cloud security regime management service that checks for compliance with security standards and best practices and enables alert aggregation and automated remediation.

A service facilitating secure retrieval and subscription to third-party data from certified providers within AWS Marketplace.

A music keyboard service employing machine learning to compose songs from simple melodies using the GAN algorithm.

A managed service enabling research and experiments on quantum algorithms using computers from various quantum hardware providers.

A highly accurate enterprise search service that utilizes machine learning to provide relevant results from unstructured data.

Connectors that integrate Cloud Ops capabilities of AWS services with IT Service Management tools like ServiceNow and Atlassian for simplified cloud resource management.

Amazon AppFlow is a managed integration service facilitating secure data transfer between SaaS applications like Salesforce, Marketo, Slack, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift.

AWS CodeArtifact is a fully managed artifact repository service that securely stores, publishes, and shares software packages used in the software development process.

Amazon Honeycode is a fully managed service that allows the quick creation of mobile and web applications without the need for programming, using a spreadsheet model.

A service that analyzes and creates an inventory of all applications running on virtual machines to support the development and deployment of containerized applications.

An open source command line interface tool that simplifies the process of building, releasing, and running containerized applications with AWS container services like AWS App Runner, Amazon ECS, and AWS Fargate.

A managed live video solution that enables users to build applications with low-latency live video interaction.

A migration assessment service to assist in creating a business case for planning and migrating to the AWS cloud.

A service providing a distribution of APIs, libraries, agents, and collectors for the OpenTelemetry specification supported by AWS.

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A service offering a managed network firewall and intrusion detection and prevention system that filters network traffic at the perimeter of an Amazon VPC.

A managed orchestration service that runs Apache Airflow for workflow management.

On November 25, 2020, AWS experienced several hours of outage on the Kinesis service in North Virginia (US-East-1) region, impacting other services relying on Kinesis.

A service that utilizes machine learning models to detect abnormal equipment behavior using historical data and maintenance records obtained from mechanical sensors.

Amazon FinSpace is a fully managed data management and analytics service that makes it easy to store, catalog, and prepare financial industry data at scale, reducing the time.

AWS Application Migration Service is a service that uses replication agents to migrate applications to the cloud with minimal downtime by lift-and-shift without architectural or configuration changes.

AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that enables developers to easily and quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs.

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a Redis compatible and durable in-memory database service.

AWS Cloud Control API is a set of standard APIs to create, read, update, delete, and list resources on AWS services and third-party services.

AWS Resilience Hub is a management & governance service that defines, validates, and tracks resilience, including defining application RTOs and RPOs, fault insertion experiments, actionable recommendations, and resiliency score assessments to avoid unnecessary downtime.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is a storage service developed based on CloudEndure Disaster Recovery that minimizes downtime and data loss by continuously replicating the source server in the AWS Cloud without impacting performance.

AWS IoT RoboRunner is a service that provides a central data repository for building multi-vendor robot interoperable applications using Fleet Management Systems (FMS), managing connections to robot vendor systems and the location and status of the latest robots.

A service that collects and transfers vehicle condition data to the cloud in real-time for analytics and machine learning applications to enhance vehicle quality, safety, and autonomy.

A service for building and managing Wide Area Networks (WAN) connecting data centers, branch offices, VPN connections, SD-WAN, Amazon VPC, and AWS Transit Gateway using AWS Network Manager dashboards.

A service that allows users to set pricing rules and rate plans for billing groups in AWS accounts, and provides margin analysis and AWS Cost and Usage Reports.

A managed service that builds, runs, scales, and manages serverless game backends for game developers.

A service that encrypts communication services like messaging, voice and video calls, file sharing, and collaboration with proprietary 256-bit end-to-end encryption.

A service designed to store, query, analyze, and gain insight into genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data for research and clinical applications.

A service that allows customers and partners to collaborate and analyze insights across a secure logical boundary without revealing the underlying data to each other.

A service that integrates supply chain data to provide actionable insights and contextual collaboration using machine learning for demand and supply planning.

A machine learning service that enhances developer productivity by analyzing code and comments in an integrated development environment, providing recommendations for optimal cloud services and libraries.

A service that automatically detects, aggregates, and normalizes security data across an organization for centralized management in a security data lake.

A service that defines and validates access rights management and authorization of users to AWS resources in custom applications using Amazon Cognito and others.

AWS AppFabric is a fully managed service that aggregates and standardizes security data from various SaaS applications to provide data and service integration compatible with security tools, enabling high observability insights, management, and protection. Future releases will include rapid answer generation, task management automation, and insight generation across all SaaS applications powered by Amazon Bedrock AI service.

AWS HealthImaging is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences organizations and their software partners store, analyze, and share medical imaging data on a petabyte scale, reducing total cost of ownership and enabling image retrieval with subsecond latency.

AWS HealthScribe is a HIPAA-eligible service that speeds clinical documentation workflow and improves the practice experience by automatically generating clinical notes from patient and provider conversations on key sections such as reason for visit, current medical history, assessment, and planning.

Amazon One Enterprise is an identity service that provides user access control to digital assets through contactless biometric authentication using a palm enrolled in an Amazon One device.

Amazon Q is a generative AI assistant designed for business that can conduct conversations, solve problems, generate content, and implement actions by leveraging data and expertise present in corporate information repositories, code, and enterprise systems. It also serves as an expert assistant for AWS builds and can provide real-time recommended responses and actions to help contact center agents resolve customer issues quickly and accurately.

As of March 2024, AWS has announced the planned launch of six additional regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Thailand, Saudia Arabia, and the European Union.

In April 2024, AWS introduced Deadline Cloud, a service that enables customers to set up, deploy, and scale graphics and visual effects rendering pipelines on AWS cloud infrastructure.

AWS aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2030, leading the tech industry towards a greener future by powering its data centers with 100% renewable energy sources.