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A brief history of AWS

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A brief history of AWS

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- [Instructor] Add to cart, checkout, confirm payment. Rejoice. I imagine most of you have experienced this cycle, that visceral joy you get from online retail therapy, and no other company is better at facilitating it than the e-commerce giant, Amazon. A company had a market cap of $1 trillion in 2018 becoming only the second company in the United States to ever hit that mark. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as a humble online bookstore before most of us even considered buying anything online. Amazon Web Services, or AWS, the cloud services platform did not come around for almost a decade after the bookstore turned retail giant was founded. And it brought a completely new side to their business. The framework for Amazon Web Services was launched internally within Amazon all the way back in 2002. At that time, it was called Amazon.com Web Service. Amazon was planning to launch merchant.com, an e-commerce service that helped third-party shops create online shopping websites…

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