AWS has been around since 2002; it started by offering a few services which were not linked in any way—it progressed in this form until early 2006 when it was relaunched. The relaunched AWS brought together three services:
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): This is the AWS compute service
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): Amazon's scalable object storage accessible service
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS): This service provides a message queue, primarily for web applications
Since 2006 it has grown from three unique services to over 160, covering over 15 primary areas such as:
- Compute
- Storage
- Database
- Networking and content delivery
- Machine learning
- Analytics
- Security, identity, and compliance
- Internet of Things
At its earnings call in February 2018, it was revealed that AWS had $17.46 billion in revenue in 2017 which...