What is AWS (Amazon Web Services)?
With over 200 fully-featured services available across the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most widely used cloud platform globally. Even though there are a few worthy competitors, it doesn’t seem like anyone will push them off the podium for a while.
For example, keeping up with AWS’ pace of innovation can be challenging. The growth of AWS services and features has been tremendous each year, as demonstrated in the graph below. In 2011, AWS introduced over 80 significant services and features, followed by nearly 160 in 2012, 280 in 2013, 516 in 2014, 722 in 2015, 1,017 in 2016, 1,430 in 2017, 1,957 in 2018, 2,345 in 2019, 2,757 in 2020, and 3,084 in 2021.
Figure 1.1: AWS – number of features released per year
There is no doubt that the number of offerings will continue to grow at a similar rate for the foreseeable future. Gartner named AWS as a leader for the 12th year in a row in the 2022 Gartner Magic...