Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The AWS platform emerged in July, 2002, initially consisting of only a few different vehicles and services. Later in late 2003, Chris Pinkham and Benjamin Black announced that the AWS concept would be reformatted when they offered an Amazon article explaining a vision for a fully standardized, fully automated retail storage infrastructure and applying it intensively to web services such as storage and retrieval.

By offering access to virtual servers as a service, they are encouraging the company to generate revenue from its new infrastructure investment. In November, 2004, the first AWS service for general use: Simple Queue Service (SQS) was released. After that, Pinkham and Christopher Brown developed an Amazon ...

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