Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the pioneer in cloud computing, launching its offering over a decade ago, and it continues to rapidly introduce new services and features based on customer demand. AWS was developed by Amazon.com when the company decided to turn its expertise in building large-scale, reliable, and cost-efficient internet systems into a product that could be used by customers to host their own sites and services.
At the time of writing, AWS has 136 services listed on its web console, ranging from foundational services such as Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to high-level machine learning services such as Rekognition. The breadth and depth of the services that are available ...
