What is AWS

Amazon Web Services is the world’s most trending and best-suited cloud platform, offering more than 175 fully-featured services. From the fastest-growing startups to the largest enterprises, leading government agencies, and there are millions of customers using the AWS platform to handle their data perfectly and grow their business without any hassle.

If you are not aware of what is AWS? How it helps businesses? Then this bog is for you. We have designed this blog for beginners to give an introduction to Amazon Web Services.

What is AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform provided by Amazon. AWS services can offer an organization tools such as database storage, compute power, content delivery and other user-friendly functionality services. to help businesses grow and perform better.

AWS is segregated into 25 global regions having multiple availability zones along with its server. These divided regions allow users to choose geographical limits for their services. AWS holds 31% of the global cloud market share and has a considerable server capacity. It offers flexible pricing, which means a user has to pay money for the hours he/she rented it.

History of Amazon Web Services

AWS platform was launched in the year 2002, and after that, it kept on evolving and offering services to Its customers without fail. As of now in 2020, it has a total of 25 geographical regions. With time, it keeps on growing and fulfilling customers’ demands in the best possible way.

2002- AWS services launched
2004- SQS was launched
2006- Launched its cloud products
2012- Holds first customer event
2015- Reveals revenues achieved of $4.6 billion
2016- Surpassed $10 billion revenue target
2016- Release snowball and snowmobile
2019- Offers nearly 175 services