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This is a '''timeline of [[Amazon Web Services]]''', which offers a suite of [[cloud computing]] services that make up an on-demand computing platform.

== AWS Prelude ==
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| 2000 || || Prelude || [[Amazon.com]], the parent company of the as yet nonexistent AWS, begins work on merchant.com, an e-commerce platform intended for use by other large retailers such as [[Target Corporation]]. In the process, Amazon's team realizes that they need to decouple their code better, with cleaner interfaces and access APIs. Around the same time, the company also realizes the need to build infrastructure-as-a-service internally, to improve the speed of development and not have it bottlenecked by infrastructure availability. All these changes help pave the way for AWS.<ref>{{cite news|url =https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/02/andy-jassys-brief-history-of-the-genesis-of-aws/|title = How AWS came to be|date = July 2, 2016|access-date = December 4, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]|last = Miller|first = Ron}}</ref><ref name=medium-jassy>{{cite web|url = https://medium.com/@furrier/original-content-the-story-of-aws-and-andy-jassys-trillion-dollar-baby-4e8a35fd7ed#.g4p7t635j|title = Exclusive: The Story of AWS and Andy Jassy's Trillion Dollar Baby. As the late Stuart Scott would say "AWS has created so much value it's ridiculous".|last = Furrier|first = John|date = January 29, 2015|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2003 || || Prelude || Benjamin Black and Chris Pinkham write a short paper describing a vision for Amazon infrastructure that, in Black's words, "was completely standardized, completely automated, and relied extensively on web services for things like storage."<ref name=black-ec2-origins>{{cite web|url = http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html|title = EC2 Origins|last = Black|first = Benjamin|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name=gigaom-ec2-origins>{{cite web|url = https://gigaom.com/2010/06/18/the-origins-of-amazons-cloud-computing/|title = The Origins of Amazon's Cloud Computing|last = Higginbotham|first = Stacey|date = June 18, 2010|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[GigaOm]]}}</ref><ref name=networkworld-ec2-origins>{{cite web|url = http://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing/the-myth-about-how-amazon-s-web-service-started-just-won-t-die.html|title = The myth about how Amazon's Web service started just won't die. How AWS got started and what its co-founder is doing now that he says could be bigger than cloud|last = Butler|first = Brandon|date = March 2, 2015|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = Network World}}</ref><ref name=zdnet-ec2-origins>{{cite news|url = http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-amazon-exposed-its-guts-the-history-of-awss-ec2/|title = How Amazon exposed its guts: The History of AWS's EC2. One of Amazon Web Service's key components, EC2, was developed by a small team in a satellite development office in South Africa. We trace the history of the EC2 cloud, and talk to the person who came up with the idea|last = Clark|first = Jack|date = June 7, 2012|access-date = December 4, 2016|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://blog.hackerrank.com/how-amazon-web-services-surged-out-of-nowhere/|title = How Amazon Web Services Surged Out of Nowhere|last = Trikha|first = Ritika|publisher = [[HackerRank]]|date = August 26, 2015|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2004 || || Prelude || [[Jeff Bezos]] approves the idea of experimenting with Amazon infrastructure. Pinkham leaves for [[South Africa]] to set up a satellite development office. While there, he works on a pilot along with help from Chris Brown and [[Willem van Biljon]]. Although the team works from South Africa, the servers are hosted in the United States.<ref name=networkworld-ec2-origins/><ref name=zdnet-ec2-origins/><ref name=itknowledgeexchange-ec2-origins>{{cite web|url = http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/amazons-early-efforts-at-cloud-computing-partly-accidental/|title = Amazon's early efforts at cloud computing? Partly accidental|last = Brooks|first = Carl|date = June 17, 2010|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2004 || November 9 || Customer outreach || The Amazon Web Services blog is launched, with a first blog post by [[Jeff Barr]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/welcome/|title = Welcome|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = November 9, 2004|access-date = December 20, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref name=jeff-barr-reminisces>{{cite web|url = http://jeff-barr.com/2014/08/19/my-first-12-years-at-amazon-dot-com/|title = My First 12 Years at Amazon.com|date = August 19, 2014|access-date = December 20, 2016|last = Barr|first = Jeff}}</ref> At the time, the name Amazon Web Services refers to a collection of APIs and tools to access the [[Amazon.com]] catalog, rather than the [[Infrastructure as a Service]] it would eventually become.<ref name=jeff-barr-reminisces/><ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon_messenge/|title = Amazon Messenger|date = December 6, 2004|access-date = December 20, 2016|last = Barr|first = Jeff|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon_store_ma|title = Amazon Store Manager|date = December 17, 2004|access-date = December 20, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon_historic/|title = Amazon Historical Pricing Service Released|date  = October 28, 2005|access-date = December 20, 2016|last = Barr|first = Jeff|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>
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| 2005 || || Prelude || A private precursor to AWS launches, with a small number of customers.<ref name=zdnet-ec2-origins/> At the same time, Amazon begins planning for a public launch of AWS. Based on internal discussions, they decide to launch storage, compute, and database offerings so that developers can use all of them together.<ref name=medium-jassy/>
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==Full timeline==
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| data-sort-value="2006-03-14" | 2006 || March 14 || Product (storage) || [[Amazon Web Services]] launches by releasing the [[Simple Storage Service]] (S3).<ref>{{cite press release
| date = 2006-03-14
| title = Amazon Web Services Launches "Amazon S3"
| access-date = 2019-09-20
| url = https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-web-services-launches-amazon-s3-simple-storage-service
}}</ref><ref name="MyUser_Perspectives.mvdirona.com_June_5_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2016/03/a-decade-of-innovation/ |title=A Decade of Innovation |newspaper=Perspectives.mvdirona.com |access-date= June 5, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2006-07-13" | 2006 || July 13 || Product (data flow) || [[Amazon Simple Queue Service]] (SQS) is released in production.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon_simple_q/|title = Amazon Simple Queue Service Released|date = July 13, 2006|access-date = December 20, 2016|last = Barr|first = Jeff}}</ref> SQS had been around (but not available in production) since 2004.<ref name=jeff-barr-reminisces/>
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| data-sort-value="2006-08-25" | 2006 || August 25 || Product (compute) || Amazon launches [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]] (EC2), which forms a central part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), by allowing users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. The service initially includes machines (instances) available for 10 cents an hour, and is available only to existing AWS customers rather than the general public. The EC2 region is us-east-1, also known as compute-1, and is located in North Virginia.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2006/08/24/exclusive-amazon-readies-utility-computing-service/|title = Almost Exclusive: Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service|last = Cubrilovic|first = Nik|date = August 24, 2006|access-date = December 4, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/08/amazon_ec2_beta.html
 |title=Amazon EC2 Beta
 |first=Jeff
 |last=Barr
 |date=August 25, 2006
 |work=Amazon Web Services Blog
 |access-date= May 31, 2013
}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2007-08-22" | 2007 || August 22 || Product (compute) || Amazon EC2 is now available in unlimited public beta, so that anybody can sign up and start using it. It also launches new instance types.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2007/10/22/amazon-ec2-now-in-unlimited-beta-and-launching-new-instance-types/|title = Amazon EC2: Now in Unlimited Beta and Launching New Instance Types|date = October 22, 2007|access-date = December 5, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2007-11-06" | 2007 || November 6 || Regional diversification || Amazon launches S3 in Europe, reducing latency and bandwidth for European users and helping them comply with privacy requirements.<ref name="s3-europe">{{cite press release| title = Amazon Web Services Offers European Storage for Amazon S3| url = http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1072982| date = 2007-11-06| access-date = 2015-09-22}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2007-12-13" | 2007 || December 13 || Product (database) || Amazon launches [[Amazon SimpleDB]], which allows businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cheaply process vast amounts of data. It uses a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of EC2 and Amazon S3.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/|title=AWS - Amazon SimpleDB – Simple Database Service|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2007/12/14/amazon-takes-on-oracle-and-ibm-with-simple-db-beta/|title = Amazon Takes on Oracle and IBM With SimpleDB|last = Schoenfeld|first = Erik|date = December 14, 2007|access-date = December 4, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2008-03-26" | 2008 || March 26 || Product, regional diversification || Amazon announces Elastic IPs, IP addresses that can be decoupled from physical EC2 machines, as well as availability zones, clusters of one or more data centers in a region such that different availability zones are isolated from each other in terms of power and water sources.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2008/03/26/announcing-elastic-ip-addresses-and-availability-zones-for-amazon-ec2/|title = Announcing Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones for Amazon EC2|date = March 26, 2008|access-date = December 5, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2018/03/ten-years-of-aws-compartimentalization.html|title=Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS - All Things Distributed|website=www.allthingsdistributed.com|date=26 March 2018|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2008-04-07" | 2008 || April 7 || Competition || Google launches [[Google App Engine]], a platform as a service (PaaS) cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers.<ref name=google-app-engine-launch>{{cite web |url=https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2008/04/introducing-google-app-engine-our-new.html|title=Introducing Google App Engine + our new blog|publisher = Google Cloud Platform Blog|date=April 7, 2008|access-date= December 4, 2016}}</ref> This is part of the [[Google Cloud Platform|Google Cloud]]. 
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| data-sort-value="2008-08-20" | 2008 || August 20 || Product (storage) || Amazon announces the launch of [[Amazon Elastic Block Store]] (EBS), which provides raw [[block-level storage]] that can be attached to [[Amazon EC2]] instances.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/08/amazon-elastic.html |title=Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) – Bring Us Your Data |work= Amazon Web Services Blog |date= August 20, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110328011236/http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/08/amazon-elastic.html| archive-date= March 28, 2011 |url-status= live |access-date= May 31, 2013 }}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2008-10-23" | 2008 || October 23|| Product (service) || Amazon EC2 exits beta and begins offering a [[service level agreement]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2008/10/23/amazon-ec2-exits-beta-and-now-offers-a-service-level-agreement/|title = Amazon EC2 Exits Beta and Now Offers a Service Level Agreement|date = October 23, 2008|access-date = December 5, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2008-11-18" | 2008 || November 18 || Product (Internet delivery) || AWS launches [[Amazon CloudFront]], a [[content delivery network]] (CDN).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/amazon-launches-cloudfront-content-delivery-network-margins-go-kaboom/10904|author=Larry Dignan|work=Between the Lines|publisher=[[ZDNet]]|date=November 18, 2008|title=Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2008-12-10" | 2008 || December 10 || Regional diversification || Amazon launches EC2 in Europe (specifically, the region eu-west-1 in Ireland), making it easier for European customers to run their instances locally and benefit from higher bandwidth and lower latency. This comes a year after the setting up of S3 in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2008/12/10/amazon-ec2-crosses-the-atlantic/|title = Amazon EC2 Crosses the Atlantic|date = December 10, 2008|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/10/amazon-ec2-now-available-in-europe/|title = Amazon EC2 Now Available In Europe|last = Wouters|first = Robin|date = December 10, 2008|access-date = December 4, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2009-04-01" | 2009 || April || Product (compute) || Amazon launches [[Amazon Elastic MapReduce]] (EMR), which allows businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cheaply process vast amounts of data. It uses a hosted [[Hadoop]] framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of EC2 and Amazon S3.
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| data-sort-value="2009-05-18" | 2009 || May 18 || Product (compute) || Amazon introduces Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (which makes it easy for users to distribute web traffic across Amazon EC2 instances), Auto Scaling (which allows users to scale policies driven by metrics collected by Amazon CloudWatch), and Amazon CloudWatch (for tracking per-instance performance metrics including CPU load).<ref name=autoscaling-and-elb>{{cite web |url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-load-balancing-automatic-scaling-and-cloud-monitoring-services/ |title=New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch |publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]] |date=May 18, 2009|last = Barr|first = Jeff|access-date= June 15, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2009-05-21" | 2009 || May 21 || Product (data migration) || AWS announces an Import/Export service, whereby people can send their storage device to AWS and AWS will upload the data to S3. This is a predecessor of the Snowball service that they would launch in October 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/send-us-that-data/|title = AWS Import/Export: Ship Us That Disk!|date = May 21, 2009|access-date = December 21, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]|last = Barr|first = Jeff}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2009-08-25" | 2009 || Aug 25 || Product (networking) || AWS launches Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), allowing customers launch EC2 instances into their own logically isolated networks, with the ability to define subnets, routing and access control lists.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc/|title = Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)|date = Aug 25, 2009|access-date = August 27, 2018|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]|last = Barr|first = Jeff}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2009-10-22" | 2009 || October 22 || Product (database) || Amazon launches [[Amazon Relational Database Service]] (RDS), a [[web service]] running [[Cloud computing|"in the cloud"]] designed to simplify the setup, operation, and [[Scalability|scaling]] of a relational database for use in applications. It starts out by supporting [[MySQL]] databases.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=2942&categoryID=291|title=Release: Amazon Relational Database Service : Release Notes : Amazon Web Services|website=Developer.amazonwebservices.com|access-date=2013-08-09|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713184636/http://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/2942?_encoding=UTF8&jiveRedirect=1|archive-date=July 13, 2012}}</ref><ref>Vogels, Werner. (2009-10-26) [http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2009/10/amazon_relational_database_service.html Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)]. All Things Distributed. Retrieved on 2013-08-09.</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2009-12-03" | 2009 || December 3 || Regional diversification || AWS launches in a second region in the United States called us-west-1, located in Northern California.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/12/03/aws-launches-the-northern-california-region/|title = AWS Launches the Northern California Region|date = December 3, 2009|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2009-12-13" | 2009 || December 13|| Product (compute) || AWS announces EC2 Spot Instances, allowing users to bid for one or more EC2 instances at the price they are willing to pay.<ref name="spotinstances">{{cite web |url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-spot-instances-and-now-how-much-would-you-pay/ |title=Amazon EC2 Spot Instances – And Now How Much Would You Pay? |date= December 13, 2009 |last = Barr|first = Jeff |access-date= June 15, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2010-02-01" | 2010 || February || Competition || Microsoft launches [[Microsoft Azure]], its foray into [[cloud computing]].<ref name="avail">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/02/01/windows-azure-general-availability.aspx |title=Windows Azure General Availability | work = The Official Microsoft Blog |publisher=Microsoft |date=2010-02-01 |access-date=2013-05-28}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2010-04-07" | 2010 || April 7 || Product (Internet delivery) || AWS launches [[Amazon Simple Notification Service|Simple Notification Service]] (SNS), a tool to allow developers to push messages generated from an application to other systems and people (by methods such as email or webhooks).<ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-web-services-launches-notification-service/|title = Amazon Web Services launches notification service. Amazon Web Services rolled out a beta of the Simple Notification Service (SNS), which is designed to set up and deliver notifications like push email and other protocols|last = Dignan|first = Larry|date = April 7, 2010|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2010-04-29" | 2010 || April 29 || Regional diversification || AWS launches a region, called ap-southeast-1, in [[Singapore]]. This is its first region in the Asia-Pacific, and is intended to meet the demand for lower latency and better bandwidth for the growing customer base in the Asia-Pacific region.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/04/29/announcing-asia-pacific-singapore-region/|title = Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region|date = April 29, 2010|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2010-05-15" | 2010 || May 15 || Product (management) || Amazon launches [[AWS CloudFormation]], its tool to help customers define collections of AWS resources (called stacks) with AWS taking care of using the definitions to provision and configure the required resources. CloudFormation is an early example of a declarative [[Infrastructure as Code]] tool.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://awsdocs.s3.amazonaws.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/cfn-ug.pdf|title = AWS CloudFormation User Guide|date = May 15, 2010|access-date = December 18, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2010-09-02" | 2010 || Sep 2 || IAM (security) || AWS launches identity and Access Management (IAM) {{En dash}} Preview Beta.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/09/02/announcing-aws-identity-and-access-management-iam-preview-beta/|title = Announcing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Preview Beta|date = Sep 2, 2010|access-date = Sep 2, 2010|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2010-11-01" | 2010 || November || Product || Amazon announces that Amazon.com has migrated its retail web services to AWS.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/2011-aws-tour-australia-closing-keynote-how-amazoncom-migrated-to-aws-by-jon-jenkins |title=2011 AWS Tour Australia, Closing Keynote: How Amazon.com migrated to AWS, by Jon Jenkins |publisher=Amazon Web Services |date= 2011-07-14 |access-date=2013-12-16}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2010-12-05" | 2010 || December 5 || Product (Internet delivery) || AWS launches [[Amazon Route 53]], a scalable and highly available [[Domain Name System]] that can be accessed via programmatic APIs.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-route-53-the-aws-domain-name-service/|title = Amazon Route 53 – The AWS Domain Name Service|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = December 5, 2010|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974008|title = Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS|date = December 6, 2010|access-date = December 18, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2011-01-19" | 2011 || January 19 || Product (management) || AWS launches [[AWS Elastic Beanstalk]], an orchestration service for deploying infrastructure which orchestrates AWS services including EC2, S3, SNS, CloudWatch, autoscaling, and Elastic Load Balancers.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110119005591/en/Amazon-Web-Services-Introduces-AWS-Elastic-Beanstalk|title = Amazon Web Services Introduces AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Easy to begin and impossible to outgrow, Elastic Beanstalk enables developers to deploy applications to AWS in minutes without giving up the ability to take back control of the underlying resources|date = January 19, 2011|access-date = December 20, 2016|publisher = BusinessWire}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-web-services-launches-elastic-beanstalk-a-service-of-services/|title = Amazon Web Services launches Elastic Beanstalk, a service of services. Amazon Web Services launched "Elastic Beanstalk," which automates the management of various services at the cloud provider.|last = Dignan|first = Larry|date = January 19, 2011|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2011-01-25" | 2011 || January 25 || Product (Internet delivery) || AWS announces the launch of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), a service for large-scale email delivery.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/aws-launches-simple-cloud-based-email-service-amazon-ses/|title = AWS Launches Simple, Bulk Email Service Amazon SES|last = Rao|first = Leena|date = January 25, 2011|access-date = December 18, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://thenextweb.com/us/2011/01/25/amazon-launches-simple-email-service-a-bulk-email-service-for-aws-customers/|title = Amazon launches Simple Email Service, a bulk-email service for AWS customers|last = Brian|first = Matt|date = January 25, 2011|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = The Next Web}}</ref> A week later, [[MailChimp]] announces its own Simple Transaction Service (STS) for bulk email delivery using SES.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-launches-transactional-email-service-on-top-of-amazon-ses/|title = MailChimp Launches Simple Transactional Service on Top of Amazon SES|date = February 2, 2011|access-date = December 18, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2011-03-02" | 2011 || March 2 || Regional diversification || AWS launches a new region, named ap-northeast-1 in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]], its second in the Asia-Pacific region. The region is launched to meet the needs of AWS' current and potential Japanese customer base for low latency and better bandwidth.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/03/02/announcing-asia-pacific-tokyo-region/|title = Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]|date = March 2, 2011|access-date = December 5, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2011-06-21" | 2011 || June 21 || Competition || [[DigitalOcean]] launches.<ref>{{cite web|title=DigitalOcean|url=https://angel.co/digitalocean|publisher=AngelList}}</ref> By November 2015, it becomes the second largest [[Web hosting service|hosting]] company in the world in terms of web-facing computers.<ref name="DigitalOcean - Gro
wth">{{cite web|title=DigitalOcean – Growth|url=http://trends.netcraft.com/www.digitalocean.com|publisher=Netcraft}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Metz|first1=Cade|title=Amazon Isn't the Only One Killing It With Cloud Computing|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/05/amazon-isnt-one-killing-cloud-computing|magazine=Wired}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2011-07-19" | 2011 || July 19 || Ecosystem || Netflix announces its suite of tools ("Simian Army") including Chaos Monkey, that randomly terminates EC2 instances within an autoscaling group during working hours so that the company is forced to design its systems with fault tolerance and rapid recovery.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html|title = The Netflix Simian Army|date = July 19, 2011|access-date = December 5, 2016|publisher = [[Netflix]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2011-11-09" | 2011 || November 9 || Regional diversification || AWS launches a new region called us-west-2 and located in Oregon, its third region in the United States for general public use.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/11/08/Announcing-new-us-west-oregon-region/|title = Now Open – US West (Oregon) Region|date = November 9, 2011|last = Barr|first = Jeff|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/amazon-web-services-promises-lower-costs-from-new-oregon-region|title = Amazon Web Services Promises Lower Costs from New Oregon Region|publisher = WHIR|date = November 9, 2011|access-date = December 4, 2016|last = Henderson|first = Nicole}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2011-09-01" | 2011 || September 1 || Ecosystem || [[Cloudyn]], which provides cloud monitoring and cost optimization for cloud infrastructure (like that of Amazon AWS), launches.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
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| data-sort-value="2011-12-14" | 2011 || December 14 || Regional diversification || AWS launches a new region, called sa-east-1, in [[Sao Paulo]], [[Brazil]]. This is its first region in South America.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-south-america-sao-paulo-region-ec2-s3-and-lots-more/|title = Now Open – South America (Sao Paulo) Region – EC2, S3, and Much More|date = December 14, 2011|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]|last = Barr|first = Jeff}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2012-01-18" | 2012 || January 18 || Product (database) || Amazon launches [[Amazon DynamoDB]], a fully managed proprietary [[NoSQL]] [[database]] service that is offered by [[Amazon.com]] as part of the [[Amazon Web Services]] portfolio.<ref name="ZDNet 2012-01-19">{{cite web|url=http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/01/19/amazon-switches-on-dynamodb-cloud-database-service-40094849/|title=Amazon switches on DynamoDB cloud database service|access-date=2012-01-21|first=Jack|last=Clark|date=2012-01-19|website=ZDNet}}</ref>
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|2012
|April 29
|Ecosystem
|AWS Marketplace is "an online store where customers can find, buy, and quickly deploy software that runs on AWS."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2012/04/19/introducing-aws-marketplace/|title=Introducing AWS Marketplace|date=2012-04-19|access-date=2019-07-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://gigaom.com/2012/04/19/amazon-launches-cloud-app-store-and-eats-ecosystem/|title=Amazon launches cloud app store (and eats ecosystem?)|last=Harris|first=Derrick|date=2012-04-19|work=Gigaom|access-date=2019-07-21}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2012-06-11" | 2012 || June 11 || Product (security) || Amazon launches AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for EC2.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2012/06/11/Announcing-IAM-Roles-for-EC2-instances/|title=Announcing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles for EC2 instances|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2012-07-30" | 2012 || July 30 || Ecosystem || Netflix open sources Chaos Monkey, its tool for simulating outages by randomly terminating EC2 instances, to help other companies build fault tolerant systems in the AWS cloud.<ref>{{cite news|url =https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/netflix-open-sources-chaos-monkey-a-tool-designed-to-cause-failure-so-you-can-make-a-stronger-cloud/|title = Netflix Open Sources Chaos Monkey – A Tool Designed To Cause Failure So You Can Make A Stronger Cloud|last = Williams|first = Alex|date = July 30, 2012|access-date = December 5, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-into-wild.html|title = Chaos Monkey Released Into The Wild|last1 = Bennett|first1 = Cory|last2 = Tseitlin|first2 = Ariel|date = July 30, 2012|access-date = December 5, 2016|publisher = [[Netflix]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://gigaom.com/2012/07/30/netflix-open-sources-cloud-testing-chaos-monkey/|title = Netflix open sources cloud-testing Chaos Monkey|last = Harris|first = Derrick|date = July 30, 2012|access-date = December 5, 2016|publisher = [[GigaOm]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2012-07-30" | 2012 || July 30 || Product (storage) || Provisioned IOPS (PIOPs) are a new [[Amazon Elastic Block Store|EBS]] volume type designed to deliver predictable, higher performance for I/O intensive workloads.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2012/07/31/announcing-provisioned-iops-for-amazon-ebs/|title=Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://redislabs.com/blog/take-2-is-amazon-ssd-piops-really-better/|title=Take #2 - Is Amazon SSD PIOPS Really Better?|last1=November 3|last2=2014|date=3 November 2014|website=Redis Labs|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref> 
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| data-sort-value="2012-08-21" | 2012 || August 21 || Product (storage) || Amazon launches [[Amazon Glacier]], an [[online file storage]] [[web service]] that provides storage for data archiving and backup.<ref>{{cite news | first = Stephanie | last = Mlot | title = Amazon Launches Glacier Cloud Storage Service | date = August 21, 2012 | url= https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408707,00.asp | publisher = Ziff Davis, Inc. | work = PCMag.com | access-date = 2012-08-21}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2012-11-28" | 2012 || November || Product (storage) || AWS announces [[Amazon Redshift]], a cloud-based data warehouse service.<ref name="MyUser_Informationweek.com_June_15_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.informationweek.com/software/information-management/amazon-debuts-low-cost-big-data-warehousing/d/d-id/1107568? |title=Amazon Debuts Low-Cost, Big Data Warehousing – InformationWeek |newspaper=Informationweek.com |date=28 November 2012 |access-date= June 15, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2012-11-12" |2012 || November 12 || Regional diversification || AWS launches a region, ap-southeast-2, in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]]. This is its third region in the Asia-Pacific and its eighth public region (excluding AWS GovCloud).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/asia-pacific-sydney-region-open/|title = New Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia – EC2, DynamoDB, S3, and Much More|last = Barr|first = Jeff|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]|date = November 12, 2012|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref>
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|2013
|March 26
|Product
|AWS CloudHSM<ref>{{Cite web|title=Announcing AWS CloudHSM|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/03/26/announcing-aws-cloudhsm/|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|language=en-US}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2013-05-13" | 2013 || May 13 || Recognition || AWS is awarded an Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) from the [[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]] (HHS) under the [[Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program]] (FedRAMP).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/171827 |title=AWS was awarded an Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) |publisher=www.gsa.gov |date=2013-05-13 |access-date=2013-11-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202121557/http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/171827 |archive-date=2014-02-02 }}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2013-06-04" | 2013 || June 4 || Competition || [[IBM]] acquires [[SoftLayer]], which marks IBM's entry into [[cloud computing]].<ref name="MyUser_03.ibm.com_June_15_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/41191.wss |title=IBM News room – 2013-06-04 IBM to Acquire SoftLayer to Accelerate Adoption of Cloud Computing in the Enterprise – United States |newspaper=03.ibm.com |access-date= June 15, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2013-10-10" | 2013 || October 10 || Customer outreach || AWS announces AWS Activate, a global program for startups. Participating startups receive promotional credits that can be spent within AWS, as well as training, support, and access to a forum.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/10/10/announcing-aws-activate-a-new-global-program-for-startups/|title = Announcing AWS Activate, a new global program for startups|date = October 10, 2013|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2013-11-04" | 2013 || November 4 || Product (compute) || Amazon announces G2 instances, a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type designed for applications that require 3D graphics capabilities.<ref name="g2">{{cite web |url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/11/04/announcing-new-amazon-ec2-gpu-instance-type/ |title=Announcing New Amazon EC2 GPU Instance Type |newspaper=Https |access-date= June 6, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2013-11-13" | 2013 || November 13 || Product 
|| [[AWS CloudTrail]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/11/13/announcing-aws-cloudtrail/|title=Announcing AWS CloudTrail|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref> web service that records API calls made on your account and delivers log files to your Amazon S3 bucket
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| data-sort-value="2013-12-17" | 2013 || December 17 || Product (data flow) || Amazon releases [[Amazon Kinesis]], a service for real-time processing of streaming data.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://venturebeat.com/2013/12/17/amazon-shows-how-real-time-data-connections-can-benefit-you/|title = Amazon shows how real-time data connections can benefit you|last = Novet|first = Jordan|date = December 17, 2013|access-date = December 31, 2016|work = [[VentureBeat]]}}</ref><ref name="AWSKinesis">{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2014/03/20/why-amazon-created-aws-kinesis-its-live-data-processing-service/ |title=Why Amazon created AWS Kinesis, its live data processing service |newspaper=Venturebeat.com |date=20 March 2014 |access-date= June 15, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2013-12-18" | 2013 || December 18 || Regional diversification || AWS launches in China, with a limited preview of its Beijing region.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/12/18/announcing-the-aws-china-beijing-region/|title = Announcing the AWS China (Beijing) Region|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]|date = December 18, 2013|access-date = December 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/amazon-to-launch-first-data-center-in-china/84340.fullarticle|title = Amazon to launch first data center in China|last = Sverdik|first = Yevgeniy|date = December 19, 2013|access-date = December 31, 2016}}</ref> However, due to [[Internet censorship in China]], its China data center is not part of the global AWS network. Rather, it is a standalone region with the same APIs and services as available in other AWS regions, but a user must create a separate AWS account for AWS China and cannot use the AWS Global account. The service operator is Beijing Sinnet Technology Co.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/about-aws/china/|title = AWS in China|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]|access-date = December 31, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2014-08-01" | 2014 || August || Security Certification || AWS first to achieve [[SS584|MTCS]] Level 3 Certification.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/awsome-day-jakarta-opening-keynote|title = AWSome Day Jakarta - Opening Keynote |last = Harshman|first = Richard|date = October 20, 2014|access-date = October 9, 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2014-10-23" | 2014 || October 23 || Regional diversification || AWS launches its second region in Europe, specifically, eu-central-1 in [[Frankfurt]], [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://gigaom.com/2014/10/23/aws-comes-to-germany-as-amazon-unveils-second-eu-region-running-out-of-frankfurt/|title = AWS comes to Germany as Amazon unveils second EU region, out of Frankfurt|last = Meyer|first = David|date = October 23, 2014|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2014-11-12" | 2014 || November 12 || Product (database) || AWS announces [[Aurora database analytics engine|Amazon Aurora]], a MySQL-compatible database offering enhanced high availability and performance.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/highly-scalable-mysql-compat-rds-db-engine/|title = Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS|date = November 12, 2014|access-date = December 18, 2016|last = Barr|first = Jeff|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240234594/AWS-launches-Aurora-cloud-based-relational-database-engine|title = AWS launches Aurora cloud-based relational database engine|last = Venkatraman|first = Archana|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = ComputerWeekly.com}}</ref> The feature becomes available to all AWS customers on July 27, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-aurora/|title = Now Available – Amazon Aurora|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = July 27, 2015|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://venturebeat.com/2015/07/27/amazon-web-services-launches-its-aurora-database-engine-out-of-preview/|title = Amazon Web Services launches its Aurora database engine out of preview|last = Novet|first = Jordan|date = July 27, 2015|access-date = December 18, 2016|work = [[VentureBeat]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2014-11-12" | 2014 || November 12 || Product (security) || AWS Key Management Service<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-key-management-service/|title=New AWS Key Management Service (KMS)|date=November 12, 2014|website=Amazon Web Services}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2014-11-13" | 2014 || November 13 || Product (compute) || AWS launches a preview of [[EC2 Container Service]] (ECS), facilitating the use of [[Operating-system-level virtualization|container]] infrastructure on AWS. Third-party integration such as those with [[Docker (software)|Docker]] are available at the time of release.<ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-launches-ec2-container-service-help-developers-manage-dockerized-applications/|title = Amazon launches EC2 Container Service to help developers manage Dockerized apps|last = Frank|first = Blair Hanley|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[GeekWire]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-doubles-down-on-docker-technology-launches-ec2-container-service/|title = AWS doubles down on Docker technology, launches EC2 Container Service. AWS CTO Werner Vogels outlines a new service that could scale Docker container technology. The move also speaks to the developer base.|last = Dignan|first = Larry|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://venturebeat.com/2014/11/13/aws-ec2-container-service/|title = Amazon expands Docker support with new EC2 Container Service|last = Novet|first = Jordan|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[VentureBeat]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/amazon-announces-ec2-container-service-for-managing-docker-containers-on-aws/|title = Amazon Announces EC2 Container Service For Managing Docker Containers On AWS|last = Lardinois|first = Frederic|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2014-11-13" | 2014 || November 13 || Product (compute) || AWS launches [[AWS Lambda]], its Functions as a Service (FaaS) tool. With Lambda, AWS customers can define and upload functions with specific triggers and execution code. AWS takes care of executing the function on the trigger occurring, and the AWS customer does not have to provision or manage the compute resources.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-code-cloud/|title = AWS Lambda – Run Code in the Cloud|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 18, 2014|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/amazon-launches-lambda-an-event-driven-compute-service/|title = Amazon Launches Lambda, An Event-Driven Compute Service|last = Miller|first = Ron|date = November 13, 2014|access-date = December 18, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref> Lambda is an early harbinger of the concept of "serverless architecture", referring to the idea of providing services without having dedicated servers to provide those services.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://gigaom.com/2015/01/09/why-aws-lambda-is-a-masterstroke-from-amazon/|title = Why AWS Lambda is a Masterstroke from Amazon|publisher = [[GigaOm]]|last = Janakiram|first = MSV|date = 9 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/12/7/the-serverless-start-up-down-with-servers.html|title = The Serverless Start-up - Down with Servers!|last1 = Panse|first1 = Marcel|last2 = Nagtegaal|first2 = Sander|date = December 7, 2015|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = High Scalability}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url =  http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/06/aws-lambda-serverless-reference-architectures.html|title = Serverless Reference Architectures with AWS Lambda|last = Vogels|first = Werner|date = June 10, 2016|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = All Things Distributed}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2014-12-17" | 2014 || December 17 || Product || Introduction of Resource Groups and Tag Editor in AWS Management Console<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/12/17/aws-management-console-announces-resource-groups-and-tag-editor/|title=AWS Management Console announces Resource Groups and Tag Editor|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2015-02-12" | 2015 || February 12 || Product || Introduction of permission and privileged policies managed by Amazon in AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-managed-policies-for-aws-identity-access-management/|title=New – Managed Policies for AWS Identity & Access Management|date=12 February 2015|website=Amazon Web Services|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2015-04-09" | 2015 || April 9 || Product || AWS announces a new machine learning platform at the AWS Summit in San Francisco, specifically suited to machine learning without requiring specific expertise.<ref name="TCML">{{cite news |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/09/aws-wants-to-put-machine-learning-in-reach-of-any-developer/ |title=AWS Wants To Put Machine Learning In Reach Of Any Developer|work = [[TechCrunch]]|date = April 9, 2015|access-date= June 6, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2015-04-28" | 2015 || April 28 || Acquisitions || AWS acquires [[ClusterK]], a startup that allows users to run apps on Amazon's cloud for 1/10th of the regular price.<ref name="MyUser_Venturebeat.com_June_15_2016c">{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2015/04/29/amazon-pays-20m-50m-for-clusterk-the-startup-that-can-run-apps-on-aws-at-10-of-the-regular-price/ |title=Amazon pays $20M-$50M for ClusterK, the startup that can run apps on AWS at 10% of the regular price |newspaper=Venturebeat.com |date=29 April 2015 |access-date= June 15, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2015-05-19" | 2015 || May 19 || Evaluation || [[Gartner]] releases an updated version of its Magic Quadrant, evaluating [[Infrastructure as a Service]] (IaaS) offerings. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are the only two services in the top right quadrant ("Leaders") with AWS higher up. A number of services are in the bottom right and bottom left quadrants.<ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://fortune.com/2015/05/19/amazon-tops-in-cloud/|title = Shocker! Amazon remains the top dog in cloud by far, but Microsoft, Google make strides|last = Darrow|first = Barb|date = May 19, 2015|access-date = January 6, 2017|magazine = [[Fortune Magazine]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/05/20/amazon-web-services-decimates-all-comers-bigger-base-faster-growth-more-innovation/#15e1b62de323|title = Amazon Web Services Decimates All Comers--Bigger Base, Faster Growth, More Innovation|last = Kepes|first = Ben|date = May 20, 2015|access-date = January 6, 2017|magazine = [[Forbes]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-google-rise-while-ibm-sinks-in-gartners-latest-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-providers/|title = Microsoft and Google rise while IBM sinks in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for cloud providers. Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) shows Amazon dominant, Microsoft and Google making progress, and IBM's service - based on its purchase of SoftLayer - in relative decline...|last = Schofield|first = Jack|date = May 29, 2015|access-date = January 6, 2017|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2015-07-09" | 2015 || July 9 || Product || AWS CodePipeline [[continuous delivery]] service<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-aws-codepipeline/|title=Now Available – AWS CodePipeline|date=July 9, 2015|website=Amazon Web Services}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2015-07-09" | 2015 || July 9 || Product || AWS launches AWS [[API Gateway]] Service.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-api-gateway-build-and-run-scalable-application-backends/|title=Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends|date=July 9, 2015|website=Amazon Web Services}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2015-10-01" | 2015 || October 1 || Product || AWS launches AWS [[Elasticsearch]] Service.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-elasticsearch-service/|title=New – Amazon Elasticsearch Service|date=October 1, 2015|website=Amazon Web Services}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2015-10-07" | 2015 || October 7 || Product || AWS Inspector preview will be available soon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/10/announcing-amazon-inspector/|title=Announcing Amazon Inspector|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2015-10-07" | 2015 || October 7 || QuickSight || Amazon QuickSight – Fast & Easy to Use Business Intelligence for Big Data at 1/10th the Cost of Traditional Solutions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-quicksight-fast-easy-to-use-business-intelligence-for-big-data-at-110th-the-cost-of-traditional-solutions/|title=Amazon QuickSight – Fast & Easy to Use Business Intelligence for Big Data at 1/10th the Cost of Traditional Solutions|date=7 October 2015 }}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2015-10-07" | 2015 || October 7 || Product (data migration) || {{anchor|snowball}}AWS launches Snowball, a physical appliance with 50 TB of storage and a Kindle on the side. Customers can get a Snowball for 10 days for $200, during which they can fill it with data and then ship it back to Amazon. The Snowball costs $15 for every additional day kept.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/07/amazon-launches-snowball-a-rugged-storage-appliance-for-importing-data-to-aws-by-fedex/|title = Amazon Launches Snowball, A Rugged Storage Appliance For Importing Data To AWS By FedEx|last = Lardinois|first = Frederic|date = October 7, 2015|access-date = December 21, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref name=snowball-aws-blog>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-importexport-snowball-transfer-1-petabyte-per-week-using-amazon-owned-storage-appliances/|title = AWS Import/Export Snowball – Transfer 1 Petabyte Per Week Using Amazon-Owned Storage Appliances|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = October 7, 2009|access-date = December 21, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref> This is the second generation of their data import/export hardware after a previous release in 2009.<ref name=snowball-aws-blog/>
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| data-sort-value="2015-10-08" | 2015 || October 8 || Product (Internet of Things) || AWS announces its managed cloud platform for the [[Internet of Things]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iot-cloud-services-for-connected-devices/|title = AWS IoT – Cloud Services for Connected Devices|date = October 8, 2015|access-date = December 21, 2016|last = Barr|first = Jeff|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/08/amazon-announces-aws-iot-a-platform-for-building-managing-and-analyzing-the-internet-of-things/|title = Amazon Launches AWS IoT — A Platform For Building, Managing And Analyzing The Internet Of Things|date = October 8, 2015|access-date = December 21, 2016|last = Barr|first = Jeff|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref> The platform becomes generally available on December 18, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iot-now-generally-available/|title = AWS IoT – Now Generally Available|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = December 18, 2015|access-date = December 21, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2015-12-21" | 2015 || December 21 || Product || AWS announces an Amazon [[Elastic Container Registry]] (ECR), a fully managed [[Docker (software)|Docker]] container registry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-container-registry-now-generally-available/|title=EC2 Container Registry – Now Generally Available|date=21 December 2015|website=Amazon Web Services|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-01-06" | 2016 || January 6 || Regional diversification || AWS launches a new region, called ap-northeast-2, in [[Seoul]], the capital city of [[South Korea]]. The region is the fourth in the Asia-Pacific.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-seoul-region/|title = Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = January 6, 2016|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-03-14" | 2016 || March || Partnerships, Competition || [[Dropbox (service)|Dropbox]] announces that it now stores over 90% of its user data on its own infrastructure stack as it continues to transition from [[Amazon S3]].<ref name="DropboxBlog">{{cite web |url=https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastructure/ |title=Scaling to exabytes and beyond |access-date= April 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/cloud-storage/how-dropbox-moved-500pb-of-customer-files-off-aws/d/d-id/1325721|title = How Dropbox Moved 500PB Of Customer Files Off AWS. With 500 petabytes of customer files to manage, Dropbox decided to become a post-cloud company. That meant moving a core operation off AWS. Here's how it was done.|last = Babcock|first = Charles|date = June 1, 2016|access-date = December 9, 2016|magazine = InformationWeek}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/|title =  The Epic Story of Dropbox's Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire|last = Metz|first = Cade|date = March 14, 2016|access-date = December 9, 2016|magazine = [[Wired Magazine]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-03-18" | 2016 || May 18 || Product (Computing) || AWS announces Automatic Auto Scaling for Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) services.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/automatic-scaling-with-amazon-ecs/|title=Automatic Scaling with Amazon ECS|date=18 May 2016|website=Amazon Web Services|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-06-21" | 2016 || June 21 || Product (Computing) || AWS announces AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to provisioning and managing SSL/TLS certificates.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/now-available-aws-certificate-manager/|title=Now Available: AWS Certificate Manager|date=21 January 2016|website=Amazon Web Services|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref> 
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| data-sort-value="2016-06-27" | 2016 || June 27 || Regional diversification || AWS launches its first region in India, located in [[Mumbai]], and called ap-south-1.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-mumbai-region/|title = Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = June 27, 2016|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/launch-of-the-aws-asia-pacific-region-what-does-it-mean-for-our-public-sector-customers/|title = Launch of the AWS Asia Pacific Region: What Does it Mean for our Public Sector Customers?|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]|date = July 6, 2016|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.cloudyn.com/blog/amazons-new-aws-india-region-means-enterprise-cloud-costs/|title = Amazon Launches AWS India Region: What It Means for Enterprise Cloud Costs|last = Mor|first = Yoav|date = July 18, 2016|publisher =Cloudyn|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/amazon-web-services-now-available-for-mumbai-region-2881180/|title = Amazon Web Services now available via local datacenters in India. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, its sixth in Asia Pacific (APAC).|newspaper = [[Indian Express]]|date = June 29, 2016|access-date = December 4, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-06-28" | 2016 || June 28 || Product (storage) || AWS launches [[Elastic File System]] (EFS) in production in three AWS regions (us-east-1, us-west-2, and eu-west-1). EFS allows customers to create POSIX-compliant file systems that can be attached to multiple EC2 instances. The file system grows and shrinks as needed and performance scales with storage size.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-file-system-production-ready-in-three-regions/|title = Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions|date = June 28, 2016|access-date = December 20, 2016|last = Barr|first = Jeff|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url =  https://venturebeat.com/2016/06/28/aws-launches-amazon-elastic-file-system-out-of-preview/|title = AWS launches Amazon Elastic File System out of preview|last = Novet|first = Jordan|date = June 28, 2016|access-date = December 20, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/29/awss-elastic-file-system-is-now-ready-for-your-grubby-little-fingers/|title = AWS's Elastic File System is now ready for production use|last = Lardinois|first = Frederic|date = June 29, 2016|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref> The service was originally announced on April 9, 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://venturebeat.com/2015/04/09/amazon-announces-the-amazon-elastic-file-system-for-storing-company-files/|title = Amazon unveils its Elastic File System for storing company files|work = [[VentureBeat]]|last = Novet|first = Jordan|date = April 9, 2015|access-date = December 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/09/amazon-launches-new-efs-file-storage-service-for-ec2/|title = Amazon Launches New File Storage Service For EC2|date = April 9, 2015|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-07-14" | 2016 || July 14 || Acquisitions || AWS acquires [[Cloud9 IDE|Cloud9]], a San Francisco{{En dash}}based startup that has built an integrated development environment (IDE) for web and mobile developers to collaborate.
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| data-sort-value="2016-08-04" | 2016 || August 4 || Evaluation || [[Gartner]] publishes an update to its Magic Quadrant for [[Infrastructure as a Service]] (IaaS) offerings. The top right quadrant (for leaders) has only two players: Amazon Web Services and [[Microsoft Azure]], with AWS significantly higher. The only other player on the right half is [[Google Cloud Platform]] (a change from last year, when there were many others in the right half as well), and all other players are in the bottom left.<ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-microsoft-seen-rated-top-dogs-in-iaas-in-gartners-magic-quadrant/|title = AWS, Microsoft seen rated top dogs in IaaS in Gartner's Magic Quadrant. But Google Cloud Platform is garnering props for its vision. Multiple players such as CenturyLink, IBM, and Rackspace are lumped together.|last = Dignan|first = Larry|date = August 4, 2016|access-date = January 6, 2017|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://fortune.com/2016/08/04/amazon-microsoft-cloud-race/|title = Amazon and Microsoft Are Running One and Two in Two-Cloud Race|date = August 5, 2016|access-date = January 6, 2017|magazine = [[Fortune Magazine]]|last = Darrow|first = Barb}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-10-13" | 2016 || October 13 || Partnerships || [[VMWare]], a company that provides cloud and virtualization services, announces a partnership with AWS, under which all of VMware's infrastructure will soon be available on AWS.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/13/vmware-cloud-on-aws/|title = VMware's new cloud service will run on AWS|date = October 13, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016|last = Lardinois|first = Frederic|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/14/aws-gets-richer-with-vmware-partnership/|title = AWS gets richer with VMware partnership|last = Miller|first = Ron|date = October 14, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://fortune.com/2016/10/13/amazon-vmware-partnership-cloud-computing/|title = Amazon and VMware Are Now Best Friends When It Comes to the Cloud|last = Vanian|first = Jonathan|magazine = [[Fortune Magazine]]|date = October 13, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-10-17" | 2016 || October 17 || Regional diversification || AWS launches its fourth public region in the United States, called us-east-2, in [[Ohio]], with three availability zones. AWS also announces that it will treat this region and the North Virginia region as one region when considering transfer pricing (for instance, EC2 to EC2 transfer will be charged at the inter-availability zone price, and S3 to EC2 transfer will be free), allowing its customers to have more regional redundancy and to migrate data off of the North Virginia data center.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/aws-launches-region-in-ohio/|title = AWS launches region in Ohio|last = Lardinois|first = Frederic|date = October 17, 2016|access-date = December 5, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-us-east-ohio-region/|title = Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = October 17, 2016|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = Amazon Web Services}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/10/17/three-amazon-data-centers-come-online-in-ohio/|title = Amazon Launches Three Cloud Data Center Sites in Ohio|last = Sverdlik|first = Yevgeniy|date = October 17, 2016|access-date = December 5, 2016|publisher = Data Center Knowledge}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-11-30" | 2016 || November 30 || Product (data migration) || AWS announces the AWS Snowmobile, a secure data truck that can store up to 100 PB of data and supports data transfer at a rate of 1 Tb/second across multiple 40 Gb/second connections (so the truck can be filled in 10 days).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/|title = AWS Snowmobile – Move Exabytes of Data to the Cloud in Weeks|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = November 30, 2016|access-date = December 20, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-snowmobile-data-transport-truck-highlights-why-cloud-giant-is-so-damn-disruptive/|title = AWS' Snowmobile data transport truck highlights why cloud giant is so damn disruptive. Want to move petabytes of data to AWS? The cloud provider has a tractor trailer for that. The move is a bit nutty, but it highlights how far AWS will go to gain workloads.|last = Dignan|first = Larry|date = November 30, 2016|access-date = December 20, 2016|work = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.geekwire.com/2016/use-amazons-snowball-snowballs-unleashes-45-foot-truck-model/|title = Amazon reveals AWS Snowmobile, a 45-foot semi-trailer that moves exabytes of data to the cloud|last = Richman|first = Dan|work = GeekWire|date = November 30, 2016|access-date = December 20, 2016}}</ref><ref name=siliconangle-snowball-snowmobile/>
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| data-sort-value="2016-11-30" | 2016 || November 30 || Product (Internet of Things, data migration) || AWS announces Snowball Edge, an augmentation of its previous device Snowball. Snowball Edge is a piece of hardware with 100 TB of storage and an attached Kindle, as well as the capability to run [[AWS Lambda]] functions with the compute capability of the m4.4xlarge EC2 instance. Customers can request a Snowball Edge at $300 for ten days with an additional charge of $30 per day; after shipping it back the data can be uploaded to S3 as with the original Snowball.<ref name=siliconangle-snowball-snowmobile>{{cite web|url = http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/12/02/snowball-snowmobile-aws-latest-tools-wrangling-data-storage-reinvent/|title = Behind AWS Snowball and Snowmobile: exec on latest data storage tools: #reInvent|last = Terrell|first = Bev|date = December 5, 2016|publisher = SiliconAngle}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://fortune.com/2016/12/01/amazon-hybrid-cloud-3/|title = Amazon Extends Cloud Reach With Hardware|date = December 1, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016|last = Darrow|first = Barb|magazine = [[Fortune Magazine]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-amazon-is-moving-closer-to-on-premises-compute-with-snowball-edge/|title = How Amazon is moving closer to on-premises compute with Snowball Edge. At first glance, Snowball Edge looks very similar to a hyperconverged infrastructure solution. AWS is using the device to lower barriers to the public cloud for potential customers.|last = Townsend|first = Keith|date = December 7, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016|publisher = Tech Republic}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-11-30" | 2016 || November 30 || Product || AWS announces [[Amazon Lightsail]], intended to compete against existing [[virtual private server]] offerings such as those by [[Linode]] and [[DigitalOcean]]. Lightsail packages together a compute server, storage, and transfer into fixed-price plans, like VPS providers do.<ref name="amazon_20161130_lightsail">{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/ |title = Amazon Lightsail – The Power of AWS, the Simplicity of a VPS |publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]] |date = November 30, 2016 |access-date = December 28, 2016 |last = Barr |first = Jeff |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130182455/https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/ |archive-date=November 30, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="geekwire_20161130_lightsail">{{cite news|url = http://www.geekwire.com/2016/amazon-launches-amazon-lightsail-low-cost-5-virtual-private-servers/ |title = Amazon launches Amazon Lightsail with low-cost $5 virtual private servers|last = Lisota|first = Kevin|date = November 30, 2016|access-date = December 28, 2016|work = GeekWire |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201141314/http://www.geekwire.com/2016/amazon-launches-amazon-lightsail-low-cost-5-virtual-private-servers/ |archive-date=December 1, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="techcrunch_20161130_lightsail">{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/30/aws-announces-virtual-private-servers-starting-at-5-a-month/|title = AWS announces virtual private servers starting at $5 a month|last = Miller|first = Ron|date = November 30, 2016|access-date = December 28, 2016|work = [[TechCrunch]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130210000/https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/30/aws-announces-virtual-private-servers-starting-at-5-a-month/ |archive-date=November 30, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> Lightsail is a little more expensive than but otherwise comparable to similarly priced plans offered at the time by Linode and DigitalOcean. Linode is cheaper in terms of RAM and both Linode and DigitalOcean are cheaper in terms of network overage costs, but Lightsail costs less if the server is being spun up for only a few hours.<ref name="joshtronic_20161201_lightsail">{{cite web|url = https://joshtronic.com/2016/12/01/ten-dollar-showdown-linode-vs-digitalocean-vs-lightsail/ |title = $10 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail|last = Sherman|first = Josh|date = December 1, 2016|access-date = December 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204201031/https://joshtronic.com/2016/12/01/ten-dollar-showdown-linode-vs-digitalocean-vs-lightsail/ |archive-date=December 1, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-11-30" | 2016 || November 30 ||  Product || [[Amazon Polly]] [[text-to-speech]] product<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://social.techcrunch.com/2016/11/30/amazon-launches-amazon-ai-to-bring-its-machine-learning-smarts-to-developers/|title=Amazon launches Amazon AI to bring its machine learning smarts to developers|date=30 November 2016 |access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2016-11-30" |2016
|November 30
|Product ([[Artificial intelligence|AI]])
|[[Amazon Rekognition]] pre-trained computer vision API<ref name=":0" />
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|data-sort-value="2016-11-30" | 2016
|November 30
|Product (AI)
|[[Amazon Lex]] chatbot builder<ref name=":0" />
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| data-sort-value="2016-12-01" | 2016 || December 1 ||  Product || [[Amazon Pinpoint]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://social.techcrunch.com/2016/12/01/amazon-pinpoint-helps-developers-keep-users-coming-back-to-their-apps/|title=Amazon Pinpoint helps developers keep users coming back to their apps|date=December 2016 |access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref> tool designed to let developers send targeted push notifications. 
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|data-sort-value="2016-12-01" | 2016
|December 1
|Product
|Amazon Step Functions<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-step-functions-build-distributed-applications-using-visual-workflows/|title=New – AWS Step Functions – Build Distributed Applications Using Visual Workflows {{!}} Amazon Web Services|date=2016-12-01|work=Amazon Web Services|access-date=2017-11-30|language=en-US}}</ref> tool design to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows.
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| data-sort-value="2016-12-08" | 2016 || December 8 || Regional diversification || AWS launches its first region in Canada, called ca-central-1 for Canada (Central).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-canada-central-region/|title = Now Open AWS Canada (Central) Region|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = December 8, 2016|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/12/09/aws-heads-north-launches-central-canada-cloud-region/|title = AWS Heads North, Launches Central Canada Cloud Region|last = Burt|first = Chris|date = December 9, 2016|access-date = December 18, 2016|publisher = Data Center Knowledge}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-12-13" | 2016 || December 13 || Regional diversification || AWS launches its London region (eu-west-2). This is its third region in Europe and first in the United Kingdom, the other two regions being in Frankfurt (Germany) and Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-london-region/|title = Now Open – AWS London Region|last = Barr|first = Jeff|date = December 13, 2016|access-date = January 6, 2017|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/aws-europe-london-region-now-open/|title = AWS Europe (London) Region Now Open|publisher = AWS Public Sector Blog|date = December 14, 2016|access-date = January 6, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/amazons-aws-opens-its-first-uk-region-in-london/|title =Amazon's AWS opens its first UK region in London|last = Lardinois|first = Frederic|date = December 14, 2016|access-date = January 6, 2017|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref> Plans for the region had been announced in November 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/11/aws-announces-uk-region.html|title = London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!|last = Vogels|first = Werner|author-link = Werner Vogels|date = November 5, 2015|access-date = January 6, 2017}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2016-12-22" | 2016 || December 22 || Product (Compute)|| AWS EC2 Systems Manager management service to automate configuration and magament of EC2 and On-Premises Systems.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-systems-manager-configure-manage-ec2-and-on-premises-systems/|title=EC2 Systems Manager – Configure & Manage EC2 and On-Premises Systems|date=22 December 2016|website=Amazon Web Services|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2017-02-23" | 2017 || February 23 || Product (compute) || AWS launches i3 instances, a new generation of instances with large SSDs intended to be used for high-throughput datastores. The instances are more than 50% cheaper than the corresponding previous generation i2 instances, and have larger memory.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-i3-instances-for-demanding-io-intensive-applications/|title = Now Available – I3 Instances for Demanding, I/O Intensive Applications|date = February 23, 2017|access-date = March 3, 2017|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]|last = Barr|first = Jeff}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/23/aws-launches-i3-vm-instances-starting-at-15-cents-per-hour/|title = AWS launches I3 VM instances starting at 15 cents per hour|last = Novet|first = Jordan|date = February 23, 2017|access-date = March 3, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/02/24/aws-launches-new-instance-series-data-hungry-workloads/|title = AWS launches new instance series for data-hungry workloads|last = Deutscher|first = Maria|date = February 24, 2017|access-date = March 3, 2017|publisher = Silicon Angle}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2017-08-14" | 2017 || August 14 || Product (database) || [[Amazon Glue]] {{En dash}} a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-aws-glue-now-generally-available/|title=Launch – AWS Glue Now Generally Available|date=August 14, 2017|website=Amazon Web Services}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2017-08-30" | 2017 || August 30 || Product (database) || [[Amazon Aurora]] with PostgreSQL Compatibility<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility/|title=Now Available – Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility|date=October 24, 2017|website=Amazon Web Services}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-relational-database-service-looking-back-at-2017/|title=Amazon Relational Database Service – Looking Back at 2017|date=12 February 2018|website=Amazon Web Services|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2017-10-24" | 2017 || October 24 || Product (database) || [[Amazon Aurora]] Fast Database Cloning feature<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-fast-database-cloning/|title=Amazon Aurora Fast Database Cloning|date=30 August 2017|website=Amazon Web Services|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2017-11-08" | 2017
|November 8
|Product
|Amazon MQ fully managed service for open source message brokers<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amazon MQ release notes - Amazon MQ|url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/amazon-mq-release-notes.html|access-date=2022-01-31|website=docs.aws.amazon.com}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2017-11-09" | 2017 || November 9 || Product  || AWS Privatelink<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-privatelink-endpoints-kinesis-ec2-systems-manager-and-elb-apis-in-your-vpc/|title=New – AWS PrivateLink for AWS Services: Kinesis, Service Catalog, EC2 Systems Manager, Amazon EC2 APIs, and ELB APIs in your VPC|date=November 8, 2017|website=Amazon Web Services}}</ref> 
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| data-sort-value="2017-11-29" | 2017 || November 29 || Product  || [[Amazon Systems Manager]] user interface to view operational data and automate operational task.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/aws-announces-aws-systems-manager/|title=Introducing AWS Systems Manager|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2017-11-29" | 2017 || November 29 || Product  || AWS Fargate service for deploying and managing containers without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/introducing-aws-fargate-a-technology-to-run-containers-without-managing-infrastructure/|title=Introducing AWS Fargate|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2017-11-29" | 2017
|November 29
|Product (AI)
|[[Amazon SageMaker]] managed machine learning service<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/29/aws-releases-sagemaker-to-make-it-easier-to-build-and-deploy-machine-learning-models/|title=AWS releases SageMaker to make it easier to build and deploy machine learning models|last=Miller|first=Ron|date=2017-11-29|work=TechCrunch|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/introducing-amazon-sagemaker/|title=Introducing Amazon SageMaker|date=2017-11-29|work=AWS|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2017-11-29" | 2017
|November 29
|Product (AI)
|Amazon Translate provides [[Natural language processing|natural language translation]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/introducing-amazon-translate-now-in-preview/|title=Introducing Amazon Translate – Now in Preview|date=2017-11-29|work=AWS|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/29/amazon-transcribe-is-a-sophisticated-transcribing-service-for-aws/|title=Amazon Transcribe is a sophisticated transcription service for AWS|last=Dillet|first=Romain|date=2017-11-29|work=TechCrunch|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2017-11-29" | 2017
|November 29
|Product (AI)
|Amazon Transcribe is an [[Speech recognition|automatic speech recognition]] software.<ref name=":13"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/introducing-amazon-transcribe-now-in-preview/|title=Introducing Amazon Transcribe – Now in Preview|date=2017-11-29|work=AWS|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2017-12-14" | 2017 || December 14 || Product  || AWS [[CloudWatch]] agent for Linux and Windows which allows collection of disk and memory metrics as well as logs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/amazon-cloudwatch-introduces-a-new-cloudwatch-agent-with-aws-systems-manager-integration-for-unified-metrics-and-logs-collection/|title=Amazon CloudWatch introduces a new CloudWatch Agent with AWS Systems Manager Integration for Unified Metrics and Logs Collection|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2017-12-18" | 2017 
|December 18
|Regional diversification
|AWS launches its Paris region (eu-west-3). Paris joins Ireland, Frankfurt, and London as the fourth AWS Region in Europe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171218006263/en/Amazon-Web-Services-Launches-New-Region-France|title=Amazon Web Services Launches New Region in France|date=2017-12-19|website=www.businesswire.com|language=en|access-date=2019-10-03}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2017-12-18" | 2017 
|December 18
|Product
|AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate and AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise become available in nine regions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/aws-opsworks-is-now-available-in-nine-regions/|title=AWS OpsWorks is Now Available in Nine Regions|date=2017-12-18|website=aws.amazon.com|language=en|access-date=2020-09-22}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2018-04-04" | 2018 || April 4 || Product (security) || AWS Secrets Manager which makes it easy to store and retrieve your secrets via API or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and rotate your credentials with built-in or custom AWS Lambda functions <ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-secrets-manager-store-distribute-and-rotate-credentials-securely/|title=AWS Secrets Manager: Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely|date=4 April 2018|website=Amazon Web Services|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/|title=AWS Secrets Manager - Rotate, Manage, Retrieve Secrets - Amazon Web Services (AWS)|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2018-06-05" | 2018 || June 5 || Product (compute) || AWS Elastic [[Kubernetes]] Service (EKS) available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-now-generally-available/|title=Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available|date=5 June 2018|website=Amazon Web Services|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2018-09-11" | 2018
|September 11–12
|Acquisitions
|Amazon acquires the aws.com domain from Earth Networks, formerly known as [[Automated Weather Source]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Allemann |first=Andrew |date=2018-09-13 |title=Amazon buys AWS.com domain name |url=https://domainnamewire.com/2018/09/13/amazon-buys-aws-com-domain-name/ |access-date=2023-03-25 |website=Domain Name Wire {{!}} Domain Name News |language=en-US}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2018-11-01" | 2018
|November
|Product
|AWS Ground Station is released.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/|title=AWS Ground Station|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2018-11-26" | 2018
|November 26
|Product
|AWS Global Accelerator, a network service used to route data over Amazon's private network<ref>{{cite press release| url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-global-accelerator-for-availability-and-performance/| date = 2018-11-16 |title = New – AWS Global Accelerator for Availability and Performance |access-date = 2022-01-30}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2018-11-26" | 2018
|November 26
|Product (CPU)
|AWS Graviton CPU powered EC2 A1 instances are publicly available in 4 regions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-ec2-a1-instances/|title=Introducing Amazon EC2 A1 Instances Powered By New Arm-based AWS Graviton Processors|date=2018-11-26|website=Amazon Web Services|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-26}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2018-11-28" | 2018
|November 28
|Product (compute)
|AWS launches hibernation for EC2 instances.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-hibernate-your-ec2-instances/|title=New – Hibernate Your EC2 Instances|date=2018-11-28|website=Amazon Web Services|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2018-11-28" | 2018
|November 28
|Product (AI)
|Amazon Textract is a "service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-textract-now-in-preview-easily-extract-text-and-data-from-virtually-any-document/|title=Introducing Amazon Textract: Now in Preview—easily extract text and data from virtually any document|date=2018-11-28|work=AWS|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/amazons-newest-machine-learning-product-makes-sense-unstructured-medical-text|title=Amazon's newest machine learning product makes sense of unstructured medical text|last=Muoio|first=Dave|date=2018-11-28|work=Mobi Health News|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2018-11-28" | 2018
|November 28
|Product
|AWS Lake Formation simplifies the process of setting up and maintaining a [[data lake]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/announcing-aws-lake-formation|title=Announcing AWS Lake Formation|date=2018-11-28|work=AWS|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-unveils-lake-formation-for-easy-data-lake-building/|title=AWS unveils Lake Formation for easy data lake building|last=Condon|first=Stephanie|date=2018-11-28|work=ZDNet|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2018-11-28" | 2018
|November 28
|Product (AI)
|Amazon Personalize enables developers to create their own [[Recommender system|recommendation engines]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-personalize-now-in-preview/|title=Introducing Amazon Personalize - Now in Preview|date=2018-11-28|work=AWS|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/28/aws-makes-amazon-com-personalization-service-available-to-all/|title=AWS makes Amazon.com personalization service available to all|last=Clark|first=Kate|date=2018-11-28|work=TechCrunch|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2018-11-28" | 2018
|November 28
|Product (AI)
|Amazon Forecast allows customers to use their historical data produce forecasts for topics such as inventory levels and product demand.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-forecast-now-in-preview/|title=Introducing Amazon Forecast – Now in Preview|date=2018-11-28|work=AWS|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/28/aws-launches-amazon-forecast-to-make-time-series-predictions-easier/|title=AWS launches Amazon Forecast to make time series predictions easier|last=Lardinois|first=Frederic|date=2018-11-28|work=TechCrunch|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2018-11-28" | 2018
|November 29
|Product (AI)
|Amazon DeepLens is a wireless video camera. DeepLens is designed such that customers can deploy their own deep learning models for computer vision onto the camera.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/introducing-aws-deeplens-the-worlds-first-deep-learning-enabled-video-camera-for-developers/|title=Introducing AWS DeepLens, the World's First Deep-Learning Enabled Video Camera for Developers|date=2017-11-29|work=AWS|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-amazons-deeplens-seeks-to-rewire-the-old-web-with-ai/|title=How Amazon's DeepLens seeks to rewire the old web with new AI|last=Fulton III|first=Scott|date=2018-11-26|work=ZDNet|access-date=2019-06-09}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2018-11-28" | 2018
|November 29
|Product (compute)
|Amazon MSK: Amazon Managed Streaming for [[Apache Kafka|Kafka]] in Public Preview<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-managed-streaming-for-kafka-in-public-preview/|title=Introducing Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) in Public Preview|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>
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| data-sort-value="2019-01-16" | 2019
| January 16
| Product (compute)
| Amazon Backup service for Amazon EBS volumes, RDS databases, DynamoDB tables, EFS file systems and AWS Storage Gateway volumes limited to a given AWS region.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://social.techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/aws-launches-backup-to-let-you-back-up-your-on-premises-and-aws-data-to-aws/|title=AWS launches Backup, a fully managed backup service for AWS|date=17 January 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/introducing-aws-backup/|title=Introducing AWS Backup|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}</ref>
|-
| data-sort-value="2019-03-01" | 2019
| March 
| Product 
| AWS App Mesh,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wikieduonline.com/wiki/AWS_App_Mesh|title = AWS App Mesh - wikieduonline}}</ref> a [[service mesh]] that provides application level networking<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/aws-app-mesh-is-now-generally-available/|title = AWS App Mesh is now generally available}}</ref>
|-
| data-sort-value="2019-07-29" | 2019
| July 29
| Regional diversification
| Amazon launches me-south-1 in Bahrain.<ref>{{cite press release| title = Announcing the new AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region| url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/announcing-the-new-aws-middle-east--bahrain--region-/| date = 2019-07-29| access-date = 2019-09-06}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2019-09-10" | 2019
|September 10
|Product
|Amazon Quantum Ledger Database<ref>{{Cite web|title=Announcing General Availability of Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/announcing-general-availability-qldb/|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|language=en-US}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2019-12-03" | 2019
|December 3
|Product (CPU)
|AWS Graviton2 CPU powered EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are launched.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-new-amazon-ec2-m6g-c6g-and-r6g-instances-powered-by-next-generation-arm-based-aws-graviton2-processors/|title=Announcing New Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g Instances Powered by Next-Generation Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Processors|date=2019-12-03|website=Amazon Web Services|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-03}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2019-12-03" | 2019
|December 3
|Product (compute)
|AWS Outposts allows AWS services to run in non-AWS datacenters.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-outposts-now-available-order-your-racks-today/|title = AWS Outposts Now Available – Order Yours Today!|date = 3 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wikieduonline.com/wiki/AWS_Outpost|title = AWS Outposts - wikieduonline}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2019-12-03" | 2019
|December 3
|Product
|AWS Wavelength<ref>{{Cite web|title=Announcing AWS Wavelength for delivering ultra-low latency applications for 5G|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-aws-wavelength-delivering-ultra-low-latency-applications-5g/|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2020-04-22" | 2020
|April 22
|Product
|Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service to securely transfer data between third-party [[Software as a service|SaaS]] offerings and [[Amazon Web Services|AWS]] services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/04/introducing-amazon-appflow/|title=Introducing Amazon AppFlow|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-24}}</ref>
|-
| data-sort-value="2020-04-22" | 2020
| April 22
| Regional diversification
| Amazon launches af-south-1 in Cape Town.<ref>{{cite press release| title = AWS Launches Region in South Africa| url = https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/aws-launches-region-south-africa/| date = 2020-04-22| access-date = 2020-04-29}}</ref>
|-
| data-sort-value="2020-04-27" | 2020
| April 27
| Regional diversification
| Amazon launches eu-south-1 in Milan.<ref>{{cite press release| title = Now Open – AWS Europe (Milan) Region| url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-europe-milan-region/| date = 2020-04-27| access-date = 2020-04-29}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2020-05-11" | 2020
|May 11
|Product
|Amazon Kendra, an intelligent enterprise search service powered by machine learning<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amazon Kendra is now generally available|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/amazon-kendra-is-now-generally-available/|access-date=2021-03-16|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Amazon Web Services – the Journey from IaaS to World Domination – Divertica|url=https://www.divertica.com/amazon-web-services-the-journey-from-iaas-to-world-domination/|access-date=2021-03-16|language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2020-06-24" | 2020
|June 24
|Product
|Amazon Honeycode, a no-code platform for web and mobile application development<ref>{{cite press release| url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-honeycode-build-web-mobile-apps-without-writing-code/| date = 2020-06-24 |title = Introducing Amazon Honeycode – Build Web & Mobile Apps Without Writing Code |access-date = 2020-07-12}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2020-07-09" | 2020
|July 9
|Product
|[[AWS Copilot]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amazon ECS announces AWS Copilot, a new CLI to deploy and operate containers in AWS|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/07/amazon-ecs-announces-aws-copilot/|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2020-09-30" | 2020
|September 30
|Product (database)
|[[Amazon Timestream]], a [[time series database]]<ref>{{cite press release| url = https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/09/amazon-timestream-now-generally-available/| date = 2020-09-30 |title = Amazon Timestream is now Generally Available |access-date = 2022-01-30}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="2020-12-01" | 2020
|December 1
|Product
|[[Amazon CodeGuru]], a developer tool that uses [[machine learning]]-based recommendations to improve code quality<ref>{{cite press release | url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-devops-guru-machine-learning-powered-service-identifies-application-errors-and-fixes/| date = 2020-12-01 | title = Amazon DevOps Guru Helps Identify Application Errors and Fixes | access-date = 2023-05-07}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2021-03-01" | 2021
|March 1
|Regional diversification
|AWS expands Osaka Local Region (ap-northeast-3) to a standard AWS region with 3 Availability Zones<ref>{{cite press release| url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-asia-pacific-osaka-region-now-open-to-all-with-three-azs-more-services/| date = 2021-03-01 |title = AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Now Open to All, with Three AZs and More Services |access-date = 2022-01-26}}</ref>
|-
|2021
|May 18
|Product
|[[AWS App Runner]], a fully managed container application service<ref>{{Cite web |title=AWS Announces AWS App Runner |url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-announces-aws-app-runner/ |access-date=2023-03-25 |website=Amazon Web Services, Inc. |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2021-08-19" | 2021
|August 19
|Product
|Amazon MemoryDB, an in-memory database service with API compatible with that of Redis.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Baer |first1=Tony |title=AWS introduces Amazon MemoryDB for Redis |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-introduces-amazon-memorydb-for-redis/ |website=ZDNet |date=August 19, 2021}}</ref>
|-
|data-sort-value="2021-11-30" | 2021
|November 30
|Product (CPU)
|AWS Graviton3 CPU powered EC2 C7g instances are launched in preview.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-c7g-instances-aws-graviton3-processors/|title=Announcing new Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors|date=2021-11-30|website=Amazon Web Services|language=en-US|access-date=2021-11-30}}</ref>
|}

==Partnerships==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Month and date (if available) !! Event type !! Details
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| 2007 || June 1 || Partnerships || [[Dropbox (service)|Dropbox]] is founded.<ref name="about">{{cite web|url=https://www.dropbox.com/about|title=About Dropbox|publisher=Dropbox, Inc.|quote=Dropbox was founded by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007, and received seed funding from Y Combinator.|access-date=2013-06-03}}</ref> Dropbox, a storage and backup service aimed at ordinary consumers and businesses, would grow into one of the biggest users of Amazon S3.
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| 2008 || August || Partnerships || Netflix announces it will start moving all its data to the [[Amazon Web Services]] cloud. It finally shifts all its data to the cloud by January 2016.<ref name=netflix-migration-to-aws>{{cite web |url=https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/completing-the-netflix-cloud-migration |title=Completing the Netflix Cloud Migration |publisher = [[Netflix]] |date = February 11, 2016|last = Izrailevsky|first = Yuri|access-date= May 30, 2016}}</ref>
|-
| 2009 || June 15 || Partnerships || [[Zynga]] announces that it will move its data to AWS.<ref name="MyUser_Https:_June_15_2016c">{{cite web |url=https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/zynga/ |title=AWS Case Study: Zynga |access-date= June 15, 2016}}</ref>
|-
| 2009 || November || Partnerships || [[reddit]] announces that it has finished decommissioning its physical servers and moves its data to AWS.<ref name="MyUser_Redditblog.com_June_15_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.redditblog.com/2009/11/moving-to-cloud.html |title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: Moving to the cloud |newspaper=Redditblog.com |access-date=June 15, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520045208/http://www.redditblog.com/2009/11/moving-to-cloud.html |archive-date=May 20, 2015 }}</ref>
|-
| 2010 || March || Partnerships || Pinterest launches the first prototype of its product.<ref name="overnight">{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-pinterest-an-overnight-success-four-years-in-the-making-2012-4?op=1 |title=Inside Pinterest: An Overnight Success Four Years In The Making|first=Nicholas |last=Carlson |date=May 1, 2011 |website=Business Insider |access-date=May 7, 2011}}</ref> Pinterest would grow into one of AWS's most famous customers and a case study in how a startup can grow extremely quickly by relying on the cloud.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.computerworld.com/article/2503482/cloud-computing/amazon-cloud-set-stage-for-fast-pinterest-growth.html|title = Amazon cloud set stage for fast Pinterest growth. The rapid increase in Pinterest use would not have been possible without AWS, a company engineer says|last = Jackson|first = Joab|date = April 19, 2012|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Computerworld]]}}</ref>
|-
| 2011 || June || Partnerships || [[Zynga]] CEO [[Allan Leinwand]] announces that Zynga will shift its data from AWS to its own zCloud. It moves from 20% to 80% of its data being stored on the zCloud from the beginning to the end of 2011.<ref name="MyUser_Internetnews.com_June_16_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.internetnews.com/itmanagement/zynga-delivers-social-games-from-the-hybrid-cloud.html |title=Zynga Delivers Social Games from the Hybrid Cloud – InternetNews. |newspaper=Internetnews.com |access-date= June 16, 2016}}</ref>
|-
| 2011 || August 16 || Partnerships || AWS launches [[AWS GovCloud]], a US region designed to meet the regulatory requirements of the United States government, and intended for use by United States government agencies.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-govcloud-us-region/|title = AWS Launches the Northern California Region|date = August 16, 2011|access-date = December 4, 2016|publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/amazon-launches-cloud-services-for-government/d/d-id/1099599|title = Amazon Launches Cloud Services For Government. AWS GovCloud will meet a host of strict regulatory requirements specific to government and include services such as Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage Service, Elastic Block Store, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud.|last = Hoover|first = Nicholas|date = August 16, 2011|access-date = December 4, 2016|magazine = [[InformationWeek]]}}</ref>
|-
| 2014 || January || Partnerships || Moz announces its decision to move off AWS, citing expenses.<ref name="MyUser_Xconomy.com_June_15_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2014/01/31/more-nuance-from-moz-cto-on-aws-private-cloud-decision/ |title=More Nuance From Moz CTO on AWS, Private Cloud Decision |newspaper=Xconomy.com |date=31 January 2014 |access-date= June 15, 2016}}</ref>
|-
| 2014 || August 25 || Partnerships || [[Amazon.com]] acquires Twitch Interactive for {{US$|970 million}}.<ref name=verge-twitchamazonmaybe>{{cite news |title=Amazon, not YouTube, reportedly buying Twitch for over $1 billion |url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/25/6066295/amazon-reportedly-buying-twitch-for-over-1-billion |access-date=25 August 2014 |work=The Verge |date=25 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=wsj-twitchamazon>{{cite news |title=Amazon to Buy Video Site Twitch for More Than $1 Billion |url=https://online.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-buy-video-site-twitch-for-more-than-1-billion-1408988885?tesla=y&mg=reno64-wsj |access-date=25 August 2014 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=25 August 2014}}</ref> The ability to store Twitch data on AWS is specifically cited as one of the major reasons why Twitch decided to go under Amazon.
|-
| 2015 || May 8 || Partnerships || [[Zynga]] announces that it will move all its data back to AWS, after diversifying away from AWS in 2011.<ref name="MyUser_The_Wall_Street_Journal_June_15_2016c">{{cite news |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/05/08/for-zynga-a-journey-from-the-cloud-to-home-and-back-again/ |title=For Zynga, a Journey From the Cloud to Home — and Back Again – Digits |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=8 May 2015 |access-date= June 15, 2016|last1=McMillan |first1=Robert }}</ref>
|-
| 2016 || February || Partnerships, Competition || [[Spotify]] announces it will move its data to [[Google Cloud Platform|Google Cloud]].<ref name="MyUser_Wired.com_June_6_2016c">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/02/spotify-moves-itself-onto-googles-cloud-lucky-for-google/ |title=Spotify Moves Itself Onto Google's Cloud—Lucky for Google |newspaper=Wired.com |access-date= June 6, 2016}}</ref>
|-
| 2016 || May 25 || Partnerships || [[Salesforce.com]], a cloud computing company that makes money primarily through its [[customer relationship management]] product suite, selects [[Amazon Web Services]] as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider. However, Salesforce.com does not plan to move entirely to Amazon, but rather use Amazon only to meet infrastructure expansion needs in new geographical areas and for specific use cases.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2016/05/salesforce-aws-public-cloud-infrastructure.html|title = Salesforce Selects Amazon Web Services as Preferred Public Cloud Infrastructure Provider|last = Harris|first = Parker|date = May 25, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016|publisher = [[Salesforce.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://seekingalpha.com/news/3185660-salesforce-com-chooses-amazon-web-services-major-migration|title = Salesforce.com chooses Amazon Web Services for major migration|last = Aycock|first = James|date = May 25, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://fortune.com/2016/05/25/salesforce-inks-major-aws-deal/|title = Salesforce Inks Major Deal With Amazon Web Services|last = Darrow|first = Barb|date = May 25, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016|magazine = [[Fortune Magazine]]}}</ref> On December 2, 2016, the partnership is extended and it is announced that Salesforce will use AWS infrastructure in Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://investor.salesforce.com/about-us/investor/investor-news/investor-news-details/2016/AWS-and-Salesforce-Extend-Global-Strategic-Alliance/default.aspx|title = AWS and Salesforce Extend Global Strategic Alliance|date = December 2, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016|publisher = [[Salesforce.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.geekwire.com/2016/amazon-web-services-salesforce-deepen-relationship-new-iot-alexa-links/|title = Amazon Web Services and Salesforce deepen relationship through new IoT and Alexa links|last = Richman|first = Dan|date = December 2, 2016|access-date = December 21, 2016|work = [[GeekWire]]}}</ref>
|-
| 2017 || April || Partnerships || [[DXC Technology]] announces it will increase integration with AWS for its enterprise clients.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dxc.technology/newsroom/press_releases/140615-dxc_technology_announces_expanded_alliance_with_amazon_web_services |title=DXC Technology Announces Expanded Alliance with Amazon Web Services |publisher=DXC Technology|date=April 5, 2017}}</ref>
|-
|2020
|May
|Partnerships
|[[Kyvos]] BI acceleration platform announces availability on AWS.<ref>{{Cite news|date=May 22, 2020|title=Kyvos BI Acceleration Platform Now Available on AWS Marketplace|work=Datanami|url=https://www.datanami.com/this-just-in/kyvos-bi-acceleration-platform-now-available-on-aws-marketplace/|access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref>
|}

== Amazon Web Services outages ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Month and date (if available) !! Event type !! Details
|-
| 2011 || April 21 || Outage || At 12:47 AM PDT on April 21, an invalid traffic shift prior to network upgrade caused EBS instances to lose connectivity to one another with an availability zone of US-East-1 region. Once the errors were localized to just one availability zone, the EBS recovery These connectivity errors impacted EBS volume and EC2 instances in multiple availability zones and caused issues for customers until full recovery at 3:00 PM PDT on April 24.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ |title=Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Region |website = aws.amazon.com |date=2011-04-29 |access-date=2018-11-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229402004/amazon-ec2-goes-dark-in-morning-cloud-outage.htm |title = Amazon EC2 Goes Dark In Morning Cloud Outage |publisher=CRN |date=2011-04-21 |access-date=2018-11-13 }}</ref>
|-
| 2011 || August 7 || Outage || Power lost in Ireland, EU West region, causing disruption and outage "service disruption began at 10:41 AM PDT on August 7th"<ref>{{cite web |url = https://aws.amazon.com/message/2329B7/ |title=Summary of the Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, and Amazon RDS Service Event in the EU West Region |publisher=AWS |date=2011-08-16 |access-date=2021-03-19 }}</ref> (also mentioned but distinct from the outage mentioned above; it happened around the same time as the US outage). Due to followup issues, full restoration of e g EBS and RDS took in the order of days.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://sociable.co/business/amazon-admits-lightening-didnt-strike-its-dublin-data-center-but-a-series-of-errors-did/ |title=Amazon admits lightning didn't strike its Dublin Data center, but a series of errors did |publisher=The Sociable |date=2011-08-16 |access-date=2021-03-19 }}</ref>
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| 2011 || August 8 || Outage || EC2 went down around 10:25&nbsp;p.m. Eastern in Amazon's U.S. East Region. The cloud outage lasted roughly 30 minutes, but took down the Web sites and services of many major Amazon cloud customers, including Netflix, Reddit and Foursquare. The issue happened in the networks that connect the Availability Zones to the Internet and was primarily caused by a software bug in the router.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/231500023/amazon-offers-explanations-apologies-for-dual-cloud-outages.htm |title=Amazon Offers Explanations, Apologies For Dual Cloud Outages |publisher=CRN |date=2011-08-16 |access-date=2018-11-13 }}</ref>
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| 2012 || June 29 || Service disruption || A major disruption occurs to the EC2, EBS, and RDS services in a single availability zone (due to a large scale electrical storm which swept through the Northern Virginia area).<ref>{{cite web |url = https://aws.amazon.com/message/67457/ |title = Summary of the AWS Service Event in the US East Region |website = Aws.amazon.com |date=2012-07-02 |access-date=2018-08-29 }}</ref>
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| 2012 || October 22 || Outage || A major outage occurs (due to latent memory leak bug in an operational data collection agent), affecting many sites such as [[Reddit]], [[Foursquare City Guide|Foursquare]], [[Pinterest]], and others.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aws.amazon.com/message/680342/ |title=Summary of the October 22, 2012 AWS Service Event in the US-East Region |website=aws.amazon.com |date=2012-10-22 |access-date=2013-07-17 }}</ref>
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| 2012 || December 24 || Outage || AWS suffers an outage, causing websites such as [[Netflix]] instant video to be unavailable for customers in the Northeastern United States.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://aws.amazon.com/message/680587/ |title=Summary of the December 24, 2012 Amazon ELB Service Event in the US-East Region |website = aws.amazon.com |date=2012-12-24 |access-date=2018-08-30 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Bishop |first=Bryan |title=Netflix streaming down on some devices due to Amazon issues |url = https://www.theverge.com/2012/12/24/3801978/netflix-streaming-down-on-some-devices-thanks-to-amazon-issues |website=The Verge |date=24 December 2012 |access-date=5 February 2013 }}</ref>
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| 2013 || September 13 || Outage || AWS US-East-1 region experienced network connectivity issues affecting instances in a single Availability Zone. We also experienced increased error rates and latencies for the EBS APIs and increased error rates for EBS-backed instance launches.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://gigaom.com/2013/09/13/uh-oh-amazon-u-s-east-is-in-trouble-again/ |title=Uh oh. Amazon U.S. East is in trouble again |publisher=Gigaom |date=2013-09-13 |access-date=2018-11-13 }}</ref>
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| 2014 || November 26 || Service disruption || [[Amazon CloudFront]] DNS server went down for two hours, starting at 7:15&nbsp;p.m. EST. The DNS server was back up just after 9 p.m. Some websites and cloud services were knocked offline as the content delivery network failed to fulfill DNS requests during the outage. Nothing major, but worthy of this list because it involved the world's biggest and longest-running cloud.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/27/aws_cloudfront_wobbles_at_worst_possible_time/ |title = AWS CloudFront wobbles at worst possible time |website = [[The Register]] |date = November 27, 2014 |access-date = November 12, 2018 }}</ref>
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| 2015 || September 20 || Outage || The [[Amazon DynamoDB]] service experiences an outage in an availability zone in the us-east-1 (North Virginia) region, due to a power outage and inadequate failover procedures. The outage, which occurs on a Sunday morning, lasts for about five hours (with some residual impact till Monday) and affects a number of related Amazon services include [[Simple Queue Service]], EC2 autoscaling, [[Amazon CloudWatch]], and the online AWS console.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://aws.amazon.com/message/5467D2/ |title = Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption and Related Impacts in the US-East Region |publisher = [[Amazon Web Services]]|date = September 21, 2015 |access-date = December 5, 2016 }}</ref> A number of customers are negatively affected, including [[Netflix]], but Netflix is able to recover quickly because of its strong disaster recovery procedures.<ref>{{cite magazine |url = http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aws-outage-how-netflix-weathered-the-storm-by-preparing-for-the-worst/ |title = AWS outage: How Netflix weathered the storm by preparing for the worst. Despite being run entirely from AWS' cloud platform the online streaming giant Netflix reports a quick recovery from Sunday's disruption - demonstrating the importance of its approach of building cloud-based systems to "fail". |last = Heath|first = Nick|date = September 21, 2015 |access-date = December 5, 2016 |magazine = TechRepublic }}</ref>
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| 2016 || June 5 || Outage || AWS Sydney experiences an outage for several hours as a result of severe thunderstorms in the region causing a power outage to the data centers.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://aws.amazon.com/message/4372T8/ |title=Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Sydney Region |website = aws.amazon.com |date=2016-06-05 |access-date=2018-08-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/05/aws_oz_downed_by_weather/ |title = AWS endures extended outage in Australia. Heavy clouds take out clouds |last = Chirgwin |first = Richard|date = June 5, 2016 |access-date = December 5, 2016 |website = [[The Register]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.itnews.com.au/news/failure-in-power-redundancy-triggered-aws-sydney-outage-420656|title = Failure in power redundancy triggered AWS Sydney outage. Failure in power redundancy triggered AWS Sydney outage |last = Coyne |first = Allie |date = June 9, 2016 |access-date = December 4, 2016 }}</ref>
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| 2017 || February 28 || Outage || Amazon experiences an outage of S3 in us-east-1.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ |title=Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region |date=2017-02-28 |access-date=2018-08-30}}</ref> There are also related outages for other services in us-east-1 including CloudFormation, autoscaling, Elastic MapReduce, Simple Email Service, and Simple Workflow Service. A number of websites and services using S3, such as [[Medium (website)|Medium]], [[Slack (software)|Slack]], [[Imgur]] and [[Trello]], are affected. AWS's own status dashboard initially fails to reflect the change properly due to a dependency on S3.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/amazon-aws-s3-outage-is-breaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps/|title = Amazon AWS S3 outage is breaking things for a lot of websites and apps |last = Etherington|first = Darrell|date = February 28, 2017|access-date = February 28, 2017|work = [[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/28/amazons-cloud-service-goes-down-sites-scramble/98530914/|title = Amazon's cloud service has outage, disrupting sites|newspaper = [[USA Today]]|date = February 28, 2017|access-date = February 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-s3-problem-at-major-data-center-location-brings-down-websites/|title = AWS investigating S3 problem at major data center location. AWS is investigating a problem with S3 storage in its US-East region, its oldest data center, which has impacted several businesses. |last = Condon |first = Stephanie |website = [[ZDNet]] |date = February 28, 2017 |access-date = February 28, 2017 }}</ref> On March 2, AWS reveals that the outage was caused by an incorrect parameter passed in by an authorized employee while running an established playbook, that ended up deleting more instances than the employee intended.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/02/aws-apologizes-for-february-28-outage-takes-steps-to-prevent-similar-events/ |title = AWS apologizes for February 28 outage, takes steps to prevent similar events |last = Novet |first = JOrdan |date = March 2, 2017 |access-date = March 2, 2017 |work = [[VentureBeat]]}}</ref>
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| 2018 || March 2 || Service degradation || Starting 6:25 AM PST, Direct Connect experienced connectivity issues related to a power outage issue in their US-East-1 Region. This caused customers to have service interruptions in reaching their EC2 instances. Issue was resolved fully by 10:26 AM PST.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2018/03/05/aws-outage.aspx |title=Hundreds of Enterprise Services Reportedly Hit by AWS Outage |website=The Register |date=2018-03-05 |access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref>
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| 2018 || May 31 || Outage || Beginning at 2:52 PM PDT a small percentage of EC2 servers lost power in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. This resulted in some impaired EC2 instances and degraded performance for some EBS volumes in the affected Availability Zone. Power was restored at 3:22 PM PDT.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/01/aws_outage/ |title = AWS outage killed some cloudy servers, recovery time is uncertain |website=The Register |date=2018-06-01 |access-date=2018-11-13 }}</ref>
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| 2019 || August 23 || Outage || A number of EC2 servers in the Tokyo region shut down due to overheating at 12:36pm local time, due to a failure in the datacenter control and cooling system.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aws.amazon.com/message/56489/ |title=Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS Service Event in the Tokyo (AP-NORTHEAST-1) Region |website=AWS |access-date=2020-12-02}}</ref>
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| 2019 || August 31 || Outage and data loss || The US-EAST-1 data center suffered a power failure at 4:33am local time, and the backup generators failed at 6am. According to AWS, this affected 7.5 percent of the EC2 instances in one of the ten data centers in one of the six Availability Zones in US-EAST-1. However, after restoring power, a number of EBS volumes, which store the filesystems of the EC2 cloud servers, were permanently unrecoverable. This caused downtime for companies such as Reddit.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.whizlabs.com/blog/amazon-aws-outage/ |date=2019-09-23 |access-date=2020-12-02 |website=WhizLabs |title=Amazon AWS Outage}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/amazon-aws-outage-shows-data-in-the-cloud-is-not-always-safe/ |date=2019-09-05 |access-date=2020-12-02 |title=Amazon AWS Outage Shows Data in the Cloud is Not Always Safe |website=BleepingComputer}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/5590/ebs-volumes-arent-safe-from-failure-backup-to-s3/ |title=AWS EBS Volumes Aren't Safe from Failure, Backup to S3 |date=2020-07-27 |access-date=2020-12-02 |website=CloudSavvyIT}}</ref>
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| 2019 || October 22–23 || Service degradation from DDoS || AWS sustained a distributed denial of service attack which caused intermittent DNS resolution errors (for their Route 53 DNS service) from 10:30am PST to 6:30pm PST.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.crn.com.au/news/aws-hit-by-ddos-attack-dragging-half-of-web-down-532842 |title=AWS hit by DDoS attack dragging half of web down |date=2019-10-23 |access-date=2020-12-02 |website=CRN}}</ref>
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| 2020 || November 25 || Outage || Beginning at 9:52 AM PST the Kinesis Data Streams API became impaired in the US-EAST-1 Region. This prevented customers from reading or writing data.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet |title=Prolonged AWS outage has taken down a big chunk of the internet, recovery may take 'a few hours' |website=The Verge|date=25 November 2020 |access-date=26 November 2020 }}</ref>
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| 2021 || December 7 || Outage || Beginning at 10:45 AM PST "an impairment of several network devices" in the US-EAST-1 Region caused widespread errors in all AWS services. The root cause has been mitigated by 4:35 PM PST, but service recovery was still underway causing localized ongoing impairment.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822332/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage |title=An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries
 |website=The Verge|date=7 December 2021 |access-date=8 December 2021 }}</ref>
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| 2021 || December 15 || Outage || Region us-west-1 was unavailable for about 30 minutes.<ref name=register202112>{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-23|title=AWS power failure killed some hardware and instances|url=https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/15/aws_down/|website=www.theregister.com}}</ref>
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| 2021 || December 22 || Outage and potential data loss || Power loss in us-east-1 for about 1 hour, followed by extended recovery procedures.<ref name=register202112/> AWS attributed the failure to a single availability zone, USE1-AZ4.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-23|title=Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again {{!}} Hacker News|url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648992|author=AWS|quote=We can confirm a loss of power within a single data center within a single Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 Region. This is affecting availability and connectivity to EC2 instances that are part of the affected data center within the affected Availability Zone. We are also experiencing elevated RunInstance API error rates for launches within the affected Availability Zone. Connectivity and power to other data centers within the affected Availability Zone, or other Availability Zones within the US-EAST-1 Region are not affected by this issue, but we would recommend failing away from the affected Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) if you are able to do so. We continue to work to address the issue and restore power within the affected data center. }}</ref>
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== See also ==
* [[List of Amazon products and services]]
* [[History of Amazon]]

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