If you wanted to sign-up with a website hosting provider in the late 90's or early 2000's, you usually used a provider that would give you access to a server. That server would be allocated a particular amount of storage for you to use and store your files on. All for one monthly cost. You could upload your website's HTML pages, photos, and other static files via Secure SSH or an FTP client. If you needed additional storage, you would submit a request and the hosting provider would expand your capacity.
In 2006, AWS launched one of their first services: Amazon Simple Storage Service, or S3 for short. Amazon advertised S3 as "highly scalable, reliable and low-latency data storage infrastructure at very low costs." But what did this mean? Well, let's break down a few points to show why there was so much hype around S3 at that time:
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