Understanding Cloud Computing Cloud Computing is basically a method where, the user accesses data or services- servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet

About the company

-AWS is subsidiary of amazon -The earliest form took birth as result of Amazon's attempts to provide services to enable its sellers to have their own online web store Provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to users, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. -Comprises over 200[13] products and services including computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, gaming tech, management, machine learning

HOW THE COMPANY BUILT ITS FIRST VERSION OF AWS

-The genesis of AWS came in the early 2000s -Company first built e-commerce-as-a-service platform for third-party retailers to build their own web-stores decided to pursue service-oriented architecture as a means to scale their engineering operations -In July 2002, Amazon.com Web Services, managed by Colin Bryar,[28] launched its first web services opening up the Amazon.com platform to all developers -They subsequently laid down the vision for an "Internet OS" -By fall 2003, databases, storage, and compute were identified as the first set of infrastructure pieces that Amazon should launch.

Products

CLOUD STORAGE Cost effective option for backup, disaster recovery, and data archiving at petabyte scale

MACHINE LEARNING Provides resources to build powerful services and platforms

Elastic compute allows users to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet

Amazon Redshift Use Machine Learning models to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries Drive faster decision-making across your business, with predictive insights

Launch first web app Learn how to choose infrastructure an launch web application in less than 30 mins

Amazon Cognito Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily

USP of the company

Wide range of products- The company offers 200 products across 13 different categories

Available in all countries- The widespread availability of AWS services is the reason why AWS leads the cloud computing market