Timeline of Amazon Web Services

This is a timeline of Amazon Web Services, which offers a suite of cloud computing services that make up an on-demand computing platform.

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Time period Key developments at Amazon Web Services
2006–2010 Amazon Web Services launches both Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3, and starts the growth of cloud computing, overwhelmingly dominating the sector in the process.
2011–2015 AWS is reported to be profitable by 2015, with sales of $1.57 billion in the first quarter of the year, and $265 million of operating income. By then, Gartner estimated that AWS customers are deploying 10x more infrastructure on AWS than the combined adoption of the next 14 providers. AWS becomes adopted by the US government, Netflix, and many other Internet services.

Full timeline

Year Month and date (if available) Event type Details
2000 Prelude Amazon.com, the parent company of the as yet nonexistent AWS, begins work on merchant.com, an e-commerce platform intended for use by other large retailers such as Target Corporation. In the process, Amazon's team realizes that they need to decouple their code better, with cleaner interfaces and access APIs. Around the same time, the company also realizes the need to build infrastructure-as-a-service internally, to improve the speed of development and not have it bottlenecked by infrastructure availability. All these changes help pave the way for AWS.[1][2]
2003 Prelude Benjamin Black and Chris Pinkham write a short paper describing a vision for Amazon infrastructure that, in Black's words, "was completely standardized, completely automated, and relied extensively on web services for things like storage."[3][4][5][6][7]
2004 Prelude Jeff Bezos approves the idea of experimenting with Amazon infrastructure. Pinkham leaves for South Africa to set up a satellite development office. While there, he works on a pilot along with help from Chris Brown and Wiljem Van Biljo. Although the team works from South Africa, the servers are hosted in the United States.[8][5][6]
2005 Prelude A private precursor to AWS launches, with a small number of customers.[6] At the same time, Amazon begins planning for a public launch of AWS. Based on internal discussions, they decide to launch storage, compute, and database offerings so that developers can use all of them together.[2]
2006 March 19 Product Amazon Web Services launches by releasing the Simple Storage Service (S3).[9][10]
2006 August 25 Product Amazon launches Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which forms a central part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), by allowing users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. The service initially includes machines (instances) available for 10 cents an hour, and is available only to existing AWS customers rather than the general public. The EC2 region is us-east-1, also known as compute-1, and is located in North Virginia.[11][12]
2007 November 6 Regional diversification Amazon launches S3 in Europe, reducing latency and bandwidth for European users and helping them comply with privacy requirements.[13]
2007 December 13 Product Amazon launches Amazon SimpleDB, which allows businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cheaply process vast amounts of data. It uses a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of EC2 and Amazon S3.[14][15]
2007 June 1 Partnerships Dropbox is founded.[16] Dropbox, a storage and backup solution aimed at ordinary consumers and businesses, would grow into one of the biggest users of Amazon S3.
2008 April 7 Competition Google launches Google App Engine, a platform as a service (PaaS) cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers.[17] This is part of the Google Cloud.
2008 August Partnerships Netflix announces it will start moving all its data to the Amazon Web Services cloud. It finally shifts all its data to the cloud by January 2016.[18]
2008 August 20 Product Amazon announces the launch of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), which provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances.[19]
2008 November 18 Product AWS launches Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network (CDN).[20]
2008 December 10 Regional diversification Amazon launches EC2 in Europe (specifically, the region eu-west-1 in Ireland), making it easier for European customers to run their instances locally and benefit from higher bandwidth and lower latency. This comes a year after the setting up of S3 in Europe.[21][22]
2009 April Product Amazon launches Amazon Elastic MapReduce, which allows businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cheaply process vast amounts of data. It uses a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of EC2 and Amazon S3.
2009 May 18 Product Amazon introduces Elastic Load Balancing (which makes it easy for users to distribute web traffic across Amazon EC2 instances), Auto Scaling (which allows users to scale policies driven by metrics collected by Amazon CloudWatch), and Amazon CloudWatch (for tracking per-instance performance metrics including CPU load).[23]
2009 Summer Partnerships Zynga announces that it will move its data to AWS.[24]
2009 October 22 Product Amazon launches Amazon Relational Database Service, a web service running "in the cloud" designed to simplify the setup, operation, and scaling of a relational database for use in applications. It starts out by supporting MySQL databases.[25][26]
2009 November Partnerships reddit announces that it has finished decommissioning its physical servers and moves its data to AWS.[27]
2009 December 3 Regional diversification AWS launches in a second region in the United States called us-west-1, located in Northern California.[28]
2009 December 13 Product AWS announces EC2 Spot Instances, allowing users to bid for one or more EC2 instances at the price they are willing to pay.[29]
2010 February Competition Microsoft launches Microsoft Azure, its foray into cloud computing.[30]
2010 March Partnerships Pinterest launches the first prototype of its product.[31] Pinterest would grow into one of AWS's most famous customers and a case study in how a startup can grow extremely quickly by relying on the cloud.[32]
2010 April 29 Regional diversification AWS launches a region, called ap-southeast-1, in Singapore. This is its first region in the Asia-Pacific, and is intended to meet the demand for lower latency and better bandwidth for the growing customer base in the Asia-Pacific region.[33]
2010 November Product Amazon announces that Amazon.com has migrated its retail web services to AWS.[34]
2011 March 2 Regional diversification AWS launches a new region, named ap-northeast-1 in Tokyo, Japan, its second in the Asia-Pacific region. The region is launched to meet the needs of AWS' current and potential Japanese customer base for low latency and better bandwidth.[35]
2011 June Partnerships Zynga CEO Allan Leinwand announces that Zynga will shift its data from AWS to its own zCloud. It moves from 20% to 80% of its data being stored on the zCloud from the beginning to the end of 2011. [36]
2011 June 21 Competition DigitalOcean launches.[37] By November 2015, it becomes the second largest hosting company in the world in terms of web-facing computers.[38][39]
2011 August 16 Partnerships AWS launches AWS GovCloud, a US region designed to meet the regulatory requirements of the United States government, and intended for use by United States government agencies.[40][41]
2011 November 9 Geographical diversification AWS launches a new region called us-west-2 and located in Oregon, its third region in the United States for general public use.[42][43]
2011 September 1 Ecosystem Cloudyn, which provides cloud monitoring and cost optimization for cloud infrastructure (like that of Amazon AWS), launches.[44]
2011 December 14 Regional diversification AWS launches a new region, called sa-east-1, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is its first region in South America.[45]
2012 January 18 Product Amazon launches Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database service that is offered by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services portfolio.[46]
2012 August 21 Product Amazon launches Amazon Glacier, an online file storage web service that provides storage for data archiving and backup.[47]
2012 October 22 Outage A major outage occurs (due to latent memory leak bug in an operational data collection agent), affecting many sites such as Reddit, Foursquare, Pinterest, and others.[48]
2012 November Product AWS announces Amazon Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse service.[49]
2012 November 12 Regional diversification AWS launches a region, ap-southeast-2, in Sydney, Australia. This is its third region in the Asia-Pacific and its eight public region (excluding AWS GovCloud).[50]
2012 December 24 Outage AWS suffers another outage, causing websites such as Netflix instant video to be unavailable for customers in the Northeastern United States.[51]
2013 May 13 Events AWS was awarded an Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).[52]
2013 June 4 Competition IBM acquires SoftLayer, which marks IBM's entry into cloud computing.[53]
2013 October 10 Customer outreach AWS announces AWS Activate, a global program for startups. Participating startups receive promotional credits that can be spent within AWS, as well as training, support, and access to a forum.[54]
2013 November 4 Product Amazon announces G2 instances, a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type designed for applications that require 3D graphics capabilities.[55]
2013 November Product AWS announces AWS Lambda, a compute service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources required by that code.[56]
2013 December Product Amazon releases Amazon Kinesis, a service for real-time processing of streaming data.[57]
2014 January Partnerships Moz announces its decision to move off AWS, citing expenses.[58]
2014 August 25 Partnerships Amazon.com acquires Twitch Interactive for US$970 million.[59][60] The ability to store Twitch data on AWS is specifically cited as one of the major reasons why Twitch decided to go under Amazon.
2014 October 23 Regional diversification AWS launches its second region in Europe, specifically, eu-central-1 in Frankfurt, Germany.[61]
2014 November Product AWS announces Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database offering enhanced high availability and performance.[62]
2015 April 9 Product AWS announces a new machine learning platform at the AWS Summit in San Francisco, specifically suited to machine learning without requiring specific expertise.[63]
2015 April 28 Acquisitions AWS acquires ClusterK, a startup that allows users to run apps on Amazon’s cloud for 1/10th of the regular price.[64]
2015 May Partnerships Zynga announces that it will move all its data back to AWS, after diversifying away from AWS in 2011.[65]
2016 January 6 Regional diversification AWS launches a new region, called ap-northeast-2, in Seoul, the capital city of South Korea. The region is the fourth in the Asia-Pacific.[66]
2016 February Partnerships, Competition Spotify announces it will move its data from Amazon AWS to Google Cloud.[67]
2016 March Partnerships, Competition Dropbox announces that it now stores over 90% of its user data on its own infrastructure stack as it continues to transition from Amazon S3.[68]
2016 June 5 Outage AWS Sydney experiences an outage for several hours as a result of severe thunderstorms in the region causing a power outage to the data centers.[69][70]
2016 June 27 Regional diversification AWS launches its first region in India, located in Mumbai, and called ap-south-1.[71][72][73][74]
2016 October 17 Regional diversification AWS launches its fourth public region in the United States, called us-east-2, in Ohio, with three availability zones. AWS also announces that it will treat the two regions as one region when considering transfer pricing (for instance, EC2 to EC2 transfer will be charged at the inter-availablity zone price, and S3 to EC2 transfer will be free), allowing it customers to have more regional redundancy and to migrate data off of the North Virginia data center.[75][76][77]

See also

References

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