10 Facts About AWS as it Celebrates 10 Years
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. Here are 10 facts about the cloud giant and its services you need to know.
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO at an event in 2014.
The AWS global infrastructure is comprised of 33 Availability Zones across 12 geographic regions worldwide. Another 5 regions are expected to be added this year.
AWS has more than 70 services that range from compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management and mobile.
91 percent: The percentage that Amazon S3 data transfer to and from Amazon S3 has increased, comparing Q4 2014 and Q4 2015.
80 percent: The percentage that Amazon EC2 instance usage has increased YoY, comparing Q4 2015 and Q4 2014.
Amazon Aurora, a relational database engine, is the fastest growing service in AWS history.
40 percent: The increase of new AWS services and features, YoY, comparing 2015 to 2014. Last year, AWS launched 722 new services and features.
54: The number of global points of presence of AWS Edge locations, where Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, and AWS WAF services are offered.
51: The number of times AWS has reduced its prices since AWS launched (as of January 2016).
190: The number of countries where AWS active customers are from. The company has more than a million active customers including nearly 2,000 government agencies, 5,000 education institutions and more than 17,500 nonprofits.
96 percent: The percentage by which usage of AWS Database Services, including Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift and Amazon ElastiCache has increased comparing Q4 2014 and Q4 2015.
96 percent: The percentage by which usage of AWS Database Services, including Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift and Amazon ElastiCache has increased comparing Q4 2014 and Q4 2015.
Ten years ago today may not be etched in your memory but it would turn out to be a monumental day for the cloud industry; March 14, 2006 was the day that Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its first service, Amazon S3.
In the press release announcing Amazon S3 for the first time, AWS described its new service as “storage for the Internet.” How much storage? The first objects were anywhere from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes, AWS said. And how much? At the time AWS charged $0.15 per gigabyte of storage per month and $0.20 per gigabyte of data transferred. To put this in perspective, now AWS gives away 5GB of storage in its AWS Free Usage Tier.
With AWS celebrating its 10th year, Talkin’ Cloud is looking at 10 fast facts about AWS and its cloud services.
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