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| 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.<ref>{{cite news|url =https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/02/andy-jassys-brief-history-of-the-genesis-of-aws/|title = How AWS came to be|date = July 2, 2016|access-date = December 4, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]|last = Miller|first = Ron}}</ref><ref name=medium-jassy>{{cite web|url = https://medium.com/@furrier/original-content-the-story-of-aws-and-andy-jassys-trillion-dollar-baby-4e8a35fd7ed#.g4p7t635j|title = Exclusive: The Story of AWS and Andy Jassy's Trillion Dollar Baby. As the late Stuart Scott would say "AWS has created so much value it's ridiculous".|last = Furrier|first = John|date = January 29, 2015|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref>

| 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."<ref name=black-ec2-origins>{{cite web|url = http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html|title = EC2 Origins|last = Black|first = Benjamin|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name=gigaom-ec2-origins>{{cite web|url = https://gigaom.com/2010/06/18/the-origins-of-amazons-cloud-computing/|title = The Origins of Amazon's Cloud Computing|last = Higginbotham|first = Stacey|date = June 18, 2010|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[GigaOm]]}}</ref><ref name=networkworld-ec2-origins>{{cite web|url = https://www.networkworld.com/article/936248/the-myth-about-how-amazon-s-web-service-started-just-won-t-die.html|title = The myth about how Amazon's Web service started just won't die. How AWS got started and what its co-founder is doing now that he says could be bigger than cloud|last = Butler|first = Brandon|date = March 2, 2015|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = Network World}}</ref><ref name=zdnet-ec2-origins>{{cite news|url = ~~http~~https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-amazon-exposed-its-guts-the-history-of-awss-ec2/|title = How Amazon exposed its guts: The History of AWS's EC2. One of Amazon Web Service's key components, EC2, was developed by a small team in a satellite development office in South Africa. We trace the history of the EC2 cloud, and talk to the person who came up with the idea|last = Clark|first = Jack|date = June 7, 2012|access-date = December 4, 2016|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://blog.hackerrank.com/how-amazon-web-services-surged-out-of-nowhere/|title = How Amazon Web Services Surged Out of Nowhere|last = Trikha|first = Ritika|publisher = [[HackerRank]]|date = August 26, 2015|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref>

| 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 [[Willem van Biljon]]. Although the team works from South Africa, the servers are hosted in the United States.<ref name=networkworld-ec2-origins/><ref name=zdnet-ec2-origins/><ref name=itknowledgeexchange-ec2-origins>{{cite web|url = http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/amazons-early-efforts-at-cloud-computing-partly-accidental/|title = Amazon's early efforts at cloud computing? Partly accidental|last = Brooks|first = Carl|date = June 17, 2010|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref>

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| data-sort-value="2008-10-23" | 2008 || October 23|| Product (service) || Amazon EC2 exits beta and begins offering a [[service level agreement]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2008/10/23/amazon-ec2-exits-beta-and-now-offers-a-service-level-agreement/|title = Amazon EC2 Exits Beta and Now Offers a Service Level Agreement|date = October 23, 2008|access-date = December 5, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2008-11-18" | 2008 || November 18 || Product (Internet delivery) || AWS launches [[Amazon CloudFront]], a [[content delivery network]] (CDN).<ref>{{cite web|url=~~http~~https://www.zdnet.com/~~blog/btl~~article/amazon-launches-cloudfront-content-delivery-network-margins-go-kaboom/~~10904~~|author=Larry Dignan|work=Between the Lines|publisher=[[ZDNet]]|date=November 18, 2008|title=Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2008-12-10" | 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.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2008/12/10/amazon-ec2-crosses-the-atlantic/|title = Amazon EC2 Crosses the Atlantic|date = December 10, 2008|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/10/amazon-ec2-now-available-in-europe/|title = Amazon EC2 Now Available In Europe|last = Wouters|first = Robin|date = December 10, 2008|access-date = December 4, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref>

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| data-sort-value="2010-02-01" | 2010 || February || Competition || Microsoft launches [[Microsoft Azure]], its foray into [[cloud computing]].<ref name="avail">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/02/01/windows-azure-general-availability.aspx |title=Windows Azure General Availability | work = The Official Microsoft Blog |publisher=Microsoft |date=2010-02-01 |access-date=2013-05-28}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2010-04-07" | 2010 || April 7 || Product (Internet delivery) || AWS launches [[Amazon Simple Notification Service|Simple Notification Service]] (SNS), a tool to allow developers to push messages generated from an application to other systems and people (by methods such as email or webhooks).<ref>{{cite news|url = ~~http~~https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-web-services-launches-notification-service/|title = Amazon Web Services launches notification service. Amazon Web Services rolled out a beta of the Simple Notification Service (SNS), which is designed to set up and deliver notifications like push email and other protocols|last = Dignan|first = Larry|date = April 7, 2010|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2010-04-29" | 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.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/04/29/announcing-asia-pacific-singapore-region/|title = Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region|date = April 29, 2010|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>

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| data-sort-value="2010-12-05" | 2010 || December 5 || Product (Internet delivery) || AWS launches [[Amazon Route 53]], a scalable and highly available [[Domain Name System]] that can be accessed via programmatic APIs.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-route-53-the-aws-domain-name-service/|title = Amazon Route 53 – The AWS Domain Name Service|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = December 5, 2010|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974008|title = Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS|date = December 6, 2010|access-date = December 18, 2016}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2011-01-19" | 2011 || January 19 || Product (management) || AWS launches [[AWS Elastic Beanstalk]], an orchestration service for deploying infrastructure which orchestrates AWS services including EC2, S3, SNS, CloudWatch, autoscaling, and Elastic Load Balancers.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110119005591/en/Amazon-Web-Services-Introduces-AWS-Elastic-Beanstalk|title = Amazon Web Services Introduces AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Easy to begin and impossible to outgrow, Elastic Beanstalk enables developers to deploy applications to AWS in minutes without giving up the ability to take back control of the underlying resources|date = January 19, 2011|access-date = December 20, 2016|publisher = BusinessWire}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = ~~http~~https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-web-services-launches-elastic-beanstalk-a-service-of-services/|title = Amazon Web Services launches Elastic Beanstalk, a service of services. Amazon Web Services launched "Elastic Beanstalk," which automates the management of various services at the cloud provider.|last = Dignan|first = Larry|date = January 19, 2011|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2011-01-25" | 2011 || January 25 || Product (Internet delivery) || AWS announces the launch of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), a service for large-scale email delivery.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/aws-launches-simple-cloud-based-email-service-amazon-ses/|title = AWS Launches Simple, Bulk Email Service Amazon SES|last = Rao|first = Leena|date = January 25, 2011|access-date = December 18, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://thenextweb.com/us/2011/01/25/amazon-launches-simple-email-service-a-bulk-email-service-for-aws-customers/|title = Amazon launches Simple Email Service, a bulk-email service for AWS customers|last = Brian|first = Matt|date = January 25, 2011|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = The Next Web}}</ref> A week later, [[MailChimp]] announces its own Simple Transaction Service (STS) for bulk email delivery using SES.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-launches-transactional-email-service-on-top-of-amazon-ses/|title = MailChimp Launches Simple Transactional Service on Top of Amazon SES|date = February 2, 2011|access-date = December 18, 2016}}</ref>

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| data-sort-value="2013-05-13" | 2013 || May 13 || Recognition || AWS is 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).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/171827 |title=AWS was awarded an Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) |publisher=www.gsa.gov |date=2013-05-13 |access-date=2013-11-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202121557/http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/171827 |archive-date=2014-02-02 }}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2013-06-04" | 2013 || June 4 || Competition || [[IBM]] acquires [[SoftLayer]], which marks IBM's entry into [[cloud computing]].<ref name="MyUser_03.ibm.com_June_15_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/41191.wss |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608133704/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/41191.wss |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 8, 2013 |title=IBM News room – 2013-06-04 IBM to Acquire SoftLayer to Accelerate Adoption of Cloud Computing in the Enterprise – United States |newspaper=03.ibm.com |access-date= June 15, 2016}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2013-10-10" | 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.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/10/10/announcing-aws-activate-a-new-global-program-for-startups/|title = Announcing AWS Activate, a new global program for startups|date = October 10, 2013|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>

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| data-sort-value="2014-11-12" | 2014 || November 12 || Product (security) || AWS Key Management Service<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-key-management-service/|title=New AWS Key Management Service (KMS)|date=November 12, 2014|website=Amazon Web Services}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2014-11-13" | 2014 || November 13 || Product (compute) || AWS launches a preview of [[EC2 Container Service]] (ECS), facilitating the use of [[Operating-system-level virtualization|container]] infrastructure on AWS. Third-party integration such as those with [[Docker (software)|Docker]] are available at the time of release.<ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-launches-ec2-container-service-help-developers-manage-dockerized-applications/|title = Amazon launches EC2 Container Service to help developers manage Dockerized apps|last = Frank|first = Blair Hanley|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[GeekWire]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = ~~http~~https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-doubles-down-on-docker-technology-launches-ec2-container-service/|title = AWS doubles down on Docker technology, launches EC2 Container Service. AWS CTO Werner Vogels outlines a new service that could scale Docker container technology. The move also speaks to the developer base.|last = Dignan|first = Larry|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://venturebeat.com/2014/11/13/aws-ec2-container-service/|title = Amazon expands Docker support with new EC2 Container Service|last = Novet|first = Jordan|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[VentureBeat]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/amazon-announces-ec2-container-service-for-managing-docker-containers-on-aws/|title = Amazon Announces EC2 Container Service For Managing Docker Containers On AWS|last = Lardinois|first = Frederic|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2014-11-13" | 2014 || November 13 || Product (compute) || AWS launches [[AWS Lambda]], its Functions as a Service (FaaS) tool. With Lambda, AWS customers can define and upload functions with specific triggers and execution code. AWS takes care of executing the function on the trigger occurring, and the AWS customer does not have to provision or manage the compute resources.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-code-cloud/|title = AWS Lambda – Run Code in the Cloud|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 18, 2014|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/amazon-launches-lambda-an-event-driven-compute-service/|title = Amazon Launches Lambda, An Event-Driven Compute Service|last = Miller|first = Ron|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 18, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref> Lambda is an early harbinger of the concept of "serverless architecture", referring to the idea of providing services without having dedicated servers to provide those services.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://gigaom.com/2015/01/09/why-aws-lambda-is-a-masterstroke-from-amazon/|title = Why AWS Lambda is a Masterstroke from Amazon|publisher = [[GigaOm]]|last = Janakiram|first = MSV|date = 9 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/12/7/the-serverless-start-up-down-with-servers.html|title = The Serverless Start-up - Down with Servers!|last1 = Panse|first1 = Marcel|last2 = Nagtegaal|first2 = Sander|date = December 7, 2015|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = High Scalability}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/06/aws-lambda-serverless-reference-architectures.html|title = Serverless Reference Architectures with AWS Lambda|last = Vogels|first = Werner|date = June 10, 2016|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = All Things Distributed}}</ref>

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| data-sort-value="2015-04-28" | 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.<ref name="MyUser_Venturebeat.com_June_15_2016c">{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2015/04/29/amazon-pays-20m-50m-for-clusterk-the-startup-that-can-run-apps-on-aws-at-10-of-the-regular-price/ |title=Amazon pays $20M-$50M for ClusterK, the startup that can run apps on AWS at 10% of the regular price |newspaper=Venturebeat.com |date=29 April 2015 |access-date= June 15, 2016}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2015-05-19" | 2015 || May 19 || Evaluation || [[Gartner]] releases an updated version of its Magic Quadrant, evaluating [[Infrastructure as a Service]] (IaaS) offerings. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are the only two services in the top right quadrant ("Leaders") with AWS higher up. A number of services are in the bottom right and bottom left quadrants.<ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://fortune.com/2015/05/19/amazon-tops-in-cloud/|title = Shocker! Amazon remains the top dog in cloud by far, but Microsoft, Google make strides|last = Darrow|first = Barb|date = May 19, 2015|access-date = January 6, 2017|magazine = [[Fortune Magazine]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/05/20/amazon-web-services-decimates-all-comers-bigger-base-faster-growth-more-innovation/#15e1b62de323|title = Amazon Web Services Decimates All Comers--Bigger Base, Faster Growth, More Innovation|last = Kepes|first = Ben|date = May 20, 2015|access-date = January 6, 2017|magazine = [[Forbes]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = ~~http~~https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-google-rise-while-ibm-sinks-in-gartners-latest-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-providers/|title = Microsoft and Google rise while IBM sinks in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for cloud providers. Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) shows Amazon dominant, Microsoft and Google making progress, and IBM's service - based on its purchase of SoftLayer - in relative decline...|last = Schofield|first = Jack|date = May 29, 2015|access-date = January 6, 2017|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2015-07-09" | 2015 || July 9 || Product || AWS CodePipeline [[continuous delivery]] service<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-aws-codepipeline/|title=Now Available – AWS CodePipeline|date=July 9, 2015|website=Amazon Web Services}}</ref>

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| data-sort-value="2016-07-14" | 2016 || July 14 || Acquisitions || AWS acquires [[Cloud9 IDE|Cloud9]], a San Francisco{{En dash}}based startup that has built an integrated development environment (IDE) for web and mobile developers to collaborate.

| data-sort-value="2016-08-04" | 2016 || August 4 || Evaluation || [[Gartner]] publishes an update to its Magic Quadrant for [[Infrastructure as a Service]] (IaaS) offerings. The top right quadrant (for leaders) has only two players: Amazon Web Services and [[Microsoft Azure]], with AWS significantly higher. The only other player on the right half is [[Google Cloud Platform]] (a change from last year, when there were many others in the right half as well), and all other players are in the bottom left.<ref>{{cite news|url = ~~http~~https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-microsoft-seen-rated-top-dogs-in-iaas-in-gartners-magic-quadrant/|title = AWS, Microsoft seen rated top dogs in IaaS in Gartner's Magic Quadrant. But Google Cloud Platform is garnering props for its vision. Multiple players such as CenturyLink, IBM, and Rackspace are lumped together.|last = Dignan|first = Larry|date = August 4, 2016|access-date = January 6, 2017|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://fortune.com/2016/08/04/amazon-microsoft-cloud-race/|title = Amazon and Microsoft Are Running One and Two in Two-Cloud Race|date = August 5, 2016|access-date = January 6, 2017|magazine = [[Fortune Magazine]]|last = Darrow|first = Barb}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2016-10-13" | 2016 || October 13 || Partnerships || [[VMWare]], a company that provides cloud and virtualization services, announces a partnership with AWS, under which all of VMware's infrastructure will soon be available on AWS.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/13/vmware-cloud-on-aws/|title = VMware's new cloud service will run on AWS|date = October 13, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016|last = Lardinois|first = Frederic|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/14/aws-gets-richer-with-vmware-partnership/|title = AWS gets richer with VMware partnership|last = Miller|first = Ron|date = October 14, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://fortune.com/2016/10/13/amazon-vmware-partnership-cloud-computing/|title = Amazon and VMware Are Now Best Friends When It Comes to the Cloud|last = Vanian|first = Jonathan|magazine = [[Fortune Magazine]]|date = October 13, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016}}</ref>

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| data-sort-value="2016-10-17" | 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 this region and the North Virginia region as one region when considering transfer pricing (for instance, EC2 to EC2 transfer will be charged at the inter-availability zone price, and S3 to EC2 transfer will be free), allowing its customers to have more regional redundancy and to migrate data off of the North Virginia data center.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/aws-launches-region-in-ohio/|title = AWS launches region in Ohio|last = Lardinois|first = Frederic|date = October 17, 2016|access-date = December 5, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-us-east-ohio-region/|title = Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = October 17, 2016|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = Amazon Web Services}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/10/17/three-amazon-data-centers-come-online-in-ohio/|title = Amazon Launches Three Cloud Data Center Sites in Ohio|last = Sverdlik|first = Yevgeniy|date = October 17, 2016|access-date = December 5, 2016|publisher = Data Center Knowledge}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2016-11-30" | 2016 || November 30 || Product (data migration) || AWS announces the AWS Snowmobile, a secure data truck that can store up to 100 PB of data and supports data transfer at a rate of 1 Tb/second across multiple 40 Gb/second connections (so the truck can be filled in 10 days).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/|title = AWS Snowmobile – Move Exabytes of Data to the Cloud in Weeks|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = November 30, 2016|access-date = December 20, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = ~~http~~https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-snowmobile-data-transport-truck-highlights-why-cloud-giant-is-so-damn-disruptive/|title = AWS' Snowmobile data transport truck highlights why cloud giant is so damn disruptive. Want to move petabytes of data to AWS? The cloud provider has a tractor trailer for that. The move is a bit nutty, but it highlights how far AWS will go to gain workloads.|last = Dignan|first = Larry|date = November 30, 2016|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.geekwire.com/2016/use-amazons-snowball-snowballs-unleashes-45-foot-truck-model/|title = Amazon reveals AWS Snowmobile, a 45-foot semi-trailer that moves exabytes of data to the cloud|last = Richman|first = Dan|work = GeekWire|date = November 30, 2016|access-date = December 20, 2016}}</ref><ref name=siliconangle-snowball-snowmobile/>

| data-sort-value="2016-11-30" | 2016 || November 30 || Product (Internet of Things, data migration) || AWS announces Snowball Edge, an augmentation of its previous device Snowball. Snowball Edge is a piece of hardware with 100 TB of storage and an attached Kindle, as well as the capability to run [[AWS Lambda]] functions with the compute capability of the m4.4xlarge EC2 instance. Customers can request a Snowball Edge at $300 for ten days with an additional charge of $30 per day; after shipping it back the data can be uploaded to S3 as with the original Snowball.<ref name=siliconangle-snowball-snowmobile>{{cite web|url = http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/12/02/snowball-snowmobile-aws-latest-tools-wrangling-data-storage-reinvent/|title = Behind AWS Snowball and Snowmobile: exec on latest data storage tools: #reInvent|last = Terrell|first = Bev|date = December 5, 2016|publisher = SiliconAngle}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://fortune.com/2016/12/01/amazon-hybrid-cloud-3/|title = Amazon Extends Cloud Reach With Hardware|date = December 1, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016|last = Darrow|first = Barb|magazine = [[Fortune Magazine]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-amazon-is-moving-closer-to-on-premises-compute-with-snowball-edge/|title = How Amazon is moving closer to on-premises compute with Snowball Edge. At first glance, Snowball Edge looks very similar to a hyperconverged infrastructure solution. AWS is using the device to lower barriers to the public cloud for potential customers.|last = Townsend|first = Keith|date = December 7, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016|publisher = Tech Republic}}</ref>

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| data-sort-value="2016-11-30" | 2016 || November 30 || Product || AWS announces [[Amazon Lightsail]], intended to compete against existing [[virtual private server]] offerings such as those by [[Linode]] and [[DigitalOcean]]. Lightsail packages together a compute server, storage, and transfer into fixed-price plans, like VPS providers do.<ref name="amazon_20161130_lightsail">{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/ |title = Amazon Lightsail – The Power of AWS, the Simplicity of a VPS |publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]] |date = November 30, 2016 |access-date = December 28, 2016 |last = Barr |first = Jeff |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130182455/https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/ |archive-date=November 30, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="geekwire_20161130_lightsail">{{cite news|url = http://www.geekwire.com/2016/amazon-launches-amazon-lightsail-low-cost-5-virtual-private-servers/ |title = Amazon launches Amazon Lightsail with low-cost $5 virtual private servers|last = Lisota|first = Kevin|date = November 30, 2016|access-date = December 28, 2016|work = GeekWire |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201141314/http://www.geekwire.com/2016/amazon-launches-amazon-lightsail-low-cost-5-virtual-private-servers/ |archive-date=December 1, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="techcrunch_20161130_lightsail">{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/30/aws-announces-virtual-private-servers-starting-at-5-a-month/|title = AWS announces virtual private servers starting at $5 a month|last = Miller|first = Ron|date = November 30, 2016|access-date = December 28, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130210000/https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/30/aws-announces-virtual-private-servers-starting-at-5-a-month/ |archive-date=November 30, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> Lightsail is a little more expensive than but otherwise comparable to similarly priced plans offered at the time by Linode and DigitalOcean. Linode is cheaper in terms of RAM and both Linode and DigitalOcean are cheaper in terms of network overage costs, but Lightsail costs less if the server is being spun up for only a few hours.<ref name="joshtronic_20161201_lightsail">{{cite web|url = https://joshtronic.com/2016/12/01/ten-dollar-showdown-linode-vs-digitalocean-vs-lightsail/ |title = $10 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail|last = Sherman|first = Josh|date = December 1, 2016|access-date = December 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204201031/https://joshtronic.com/2016/12/01/ten-dollar-showdown-linode-vs-digitalocean-vs-lightsail/ |archive-date=December 4, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2016-11-30" | 2016 || November 30 || Product || [[Amazon Polly]] [[text-to-speech]] product<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=~~http~~https://~~social.~~techcrunch.com/2016/11/30/amazon-launches-amazon-ai-to-bring-its-machine-learning-smarts-to-developers/|title=Amazon launches Amazon AI to bring its machine learning smarts to developers|date=30 November 2016 |access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>

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|[[Amazon Lex]] chatbot builder<ref name=":0" />

| data-sort-value="2016-12-01" | 2016 || December 1 || Product || [[Amazon Pinpoint]]<ref>{{cite web|url=~~http~~https://~~social.~~techcrunch.com/2016/12/01/amazon-pinpoint-helps-developers-keep-users-coming-back-to-their-apps/|title=Amazon Pinpoint helps developers keep users coming back to their apps|date=December 2016 |access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref> tool designed to let developers send targeted push notifications.

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|AWS Well-Architected Tool: review workloads against the latest AWS architectural best practices, and get guidance on how to improve cloud architectures<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-well-architected-tool/|title=

Amazon Web Services introduces the AWS Well-Architected ~~Too~~Tool|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|access-date=2024-05-06}}</ref>

| data-sort-value="2019-01-16" | 2019

| January 16

| Product (compute)

| Amazon Backup service for Amazon EBS volumes, RDS databases, DynamoDB tables, EFS file systems and AWS Storage Gateway volumes limited to a given AWS region.<ref>{{Cite web|url=~~http~~https://~~social.~~techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/aws-launches-backup-to-let-you-back-up-your-on-premises-and-aws-data-to-aws/|title=AWS launches Backup, a fully managed backup service for AWS|date=17 January 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/introducing-aws-backup/|title=Introducing AWS Backup|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}</ref>

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|December 022

|Product

|AWS re:Post is an AWS-managed Q&A service offering crowd-sourced, expert-reviewed answers to your technical questions about AWS that replaces the original AWS Forums.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-repost-a-reimagined-qa-experience-for-the-aws-community/|title=AWS re:Post – A Reimagined Q&A Experience for the AWS Community|date=2021-12-02|website=Amazon Web Services|language=en-US|access-date=2024-05-02}}</ref>

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|Product

|M7g and R7g instances powered by the latest generation AWS [[~~AWS_Graviton~~AWS Graviton#Graviton3|Graviton3]] processors now available which are designed to deliver up to 25% better performance than the equivalent sixth-generation (M6g and R6g) instances.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-13 |title=New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances |url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-graviton3-based-general-purpose-m7g-and-memory-optimized-r7g-amazon-ec2-instances/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=aws.amazon.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

|2023

|April 033

|Product

|AWS Service Catalog support for [[~~Terraform_~~Terraform (software)|Terraform]] open source.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-03 |title=AWS Service Catalog announces support for Terraform open source |url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/04/aws-service-catalog-terraform-open-source/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=aws.amazon.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

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|May 044

|Product (AI)

|ml.inf2 (Inferentia2) and ml.trn1 (Trainium) family of instances on Amazon SageMaker for deploying machine learning (ML) models for Real-time and Asynchronous inference.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-04 |title=SageMaker announces ml.inf2 and ml.trn1 instances for model deployment |url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/sagemaker-ml-inf2-ml-trn1-instances-model-deployment/ |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=aws.amazon.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

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| March 044

| Product (AI)

| ~~Anthropic’s~~Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet foundation model is now available in Amazon Bedrock<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-04 |title=Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet foundation model is now available in Amazon Bedrock |url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/anthropics-claude-3-sonnet-foundation-model-is-now-available-in-amazon-bedrock/ |access-date=2024-04-26 |website=aws.amazon.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

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| Product (AI)

| Amazon Titan Text Premier is a high-performance and cost-effective [[~~large_language_model~~large language model]] engineered for enterprise-grade text generation applications, including optimized performance for [[~~Prompt_engineering~~Prompt engineering#Retrieval-~~augmented_generation~~augmented generation|retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)]] and Agents<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-07 |title=Amazon Titan Text Premier is now available in Amazon Bedrock |url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/05/amazon-titan-text-premier-amazon-bedrock/ |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=aws.amazon.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

|2024

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| Amazon SageMaker now offers a fully managed MLflow capability<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-19 |title=Amazon SageMaker now offers a fully managed MLflow capability |url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/06/amazon-sagemaker-mlflow-capability |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=aws.amazon.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

|2024

| June 20

| Product (AI)

| Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet foundation model, which is its most intelligent model to date, is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-20 |title=Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model now available in Amazon Bedrock |url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/06/anthropic-claude-3-5-sonnet-model-bedrock/ |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=aws.amazon.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

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|Partnerships

|Amazon and [[Anthropic]] selects AWS as its primary cloud provider and will train and deploy its future foundation models on AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips, taking advantage of ~~AWS’s~~AWS's high-performance, low-cost machine learning accelerators.<ref>{{Cite news|date=September 25, 2023|title=Amazon and Anthropic Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Generative AI|url=https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/9/amazon-and-anthropic-announce-strategic-collaboration-to-advance-generative-ai|access-date=April 26, 2024}}</ref>

|2024

|May 6

|Partnerships

|AWS signes a strategic collaboration agreement with [[Mavenir]] resulting in jointly architecting ~~Mavenir’s~~Mavenir's technology of cloud-native Telco solutions to transform how operators launch [[5G]], [[IP Multimedia Subsystem]], [[Radio Access Network]] and future network technologies.<ref>{{Cite news|date=May 7, 2024|title=AWS partners Mavenir to co-invest in developing telco cloud|url=https://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/aws-partners-mavenir-to-co-invest-in-developing-telco-cloud/|access-date=May 7, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Mavenir and Amazon Web Services Join Forces to Usher in a New Era for Public Cloud-Based Telco Networks |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240506507618/en/ |access-date=2024-06-11 |language=en}}</ref>

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| 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.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://aws.amazon.com/message/4372T8/ |title=Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Sydney Region |website = aws.amazon.com |date=2016-06-05 |access-date=2018-08-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/05/aws_oz_downed_by_weather/ |title = AWS endures extended outage in Australia. Heavy clouds take out clouds |last = Chirgwin |first = Richard|date = June 5, 2016 |access-date = December 5, 2016 |website = [[The Register]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.itnews.com.au/news/failure-in-power-redundancy-triggered-aws-sydney-outage-420656|title = Failure in power redundancy triggered AWS Sydney outage. Failure in power redundancy triggered AWS Sydney outage |last = Coyne |first = Allie |date = June 9, 2016 |access-date = December 4, 2016 }}</ref>

| 2017 || February 28 || Outage || Amazon experiences an outage of S3 in us-east-1.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ |title=Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region |date=2017-02-28 |access-date=2018-08-30}}</ref> There are also related outages for other services in us-east-1 including CloudFormation, autoscaling, Elastic MapReduce, Simple Email Service, and Simple Workflow Service. A number of websites and services using S3, such as [[Medium (website)|Medium]], [[Slack (software)|Slack]], [[Imgur]] and [[Trello]], are affected. AWS's own status dashboard initially fails to reflect the change properly due to a dependency on S3.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/amazon-aws-s3-outage-is-breaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps/|title = Amazon AWS S3 outage is breaking things for a lot of websites and apps |last = Etherington|first = Darrell|date = February 28, 2017|access-date = February 28, 2017|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/28/amazons-cloud-service-goes-down-sites-scramble/98530914/|title = Amazon's cloud service has outage, disrupting sites|newspaper = [[USA Today]]|date = February 28, 2017|access-date = February 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = ~~http~~https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-s3-problem-at-major-data-center-location-brings-down-websites/|title = AWS investigating S3 problem at major data center location. AWS is investigating a problem with S3 storage in its US-East region, its oldest data center, which has impacted several businesses. |last = Condon |first = Stephanie |website = [[ZDNet]] |date = February 28, 2017 |access-date = February 28, 2017 }}</ref> On March 2, AWS reveals that the outage was caused by an incorrect parameter passed in by an authorized employee while running an established playbook, that ended up deleting more instances than the employee intended.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/02/aws-apologizes-for-february-28-outage-takes-steps-to-prevent-similar-events/ |title = AWS apologizes for February 28 outage, takes steps to prevent similar events |last = Novet |first = Jordan |date = March 2, 2017 |access-date = March 2, 2017 |work = [[VentureBeat]]}}</ref>

| 2018 || March 2 || Service degradation || Starting 6:25 AM PST, Direct Connect experienced connectivity issues related to a power outage issue in their US-East-1 Region. This caused customers to have service interruptions in reaching their EC2 instances. Issue was resolved fully by 10:26 AM PST.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2018/03/05/aws-outage.aspx |title=Hundreds of Enterprise Services Reportedly Hit by AWS Outage |website=The Register |date=2018-03-05 |access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref>

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