| Year
|
Month and date (if available) |
Event type |
Details
|
| 2006 |
July 13 |
Product (data flow) |
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is released in production.[16] SQS had been around (but not available in production) since 2004.[10]
|
| 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.[17][18]
|
| 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.[19]
|
| 2007 |
November 6 |
Regional diversification |
Amazon launches S3 in Europe, reducing latency and bandwidth for European users and helping them comply with privacy requirements.[20]
|
| 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.[21][22]
|
| 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.[23][24]
|
| 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.[25] This is part of the Google Cloud.
|
| 2008 |
October 23 |
Product (service) |
Amazon EC2 exits beta and begins offering a service level agreement.[27]
|
| 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.[29][30]
|
| 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.
|
| 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).[31]
|
| 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.[32]
|
| 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.[33]
|
| 2009 |
December 3 |
Regional diversification |
AWS launches in a second region in the United States called us-west-1, located in Northern California.[36]
|
| 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.[37]
|
| 2010 |
February |
Competition |
Microsoft launches Microsoft Azure, its foray into cloud computing.[38]
|
| 2010 |
April 7 |
Product (Internet delivery) |
AWS launches 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).[39]
|
| 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.[40]
|
| 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.[41]
|
| 2010 |
Sep 2 |
IAM (security) |
AWS launches identity and Access Management (IAM) – Preview Beta.[42]
|
| 2010 |
November |
Product |
Amazon announces that Amazon.com has migrated its retail web services to AWS.[43]
|
| 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.[44][45]
|
| 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.[46][47]
|
| 2011 |
January 25 |
Product (Internet delivery) |
AWS announces the launch of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), a service for large-scale email delivery.[48][49] A week later, MailChimp announces its own Simple Transaction Service (STS) for bulk email delivery using SES.[50]
|
| 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.[51]
|
| 2011 |
June 21 |
Competition |
DigitalOcean launches.[52] By November 2015, it becomes the second largest hosting company in the world in terms of web-facing computers.[53][54]
|
| 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.[55]
|
| 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.[56][57]
|
| 2011 |
September 1 |
Ecosystem |
Cloudyn, which provides cloud monitoring and cost optimization for cloud infrastructure (like that of Amazon AWS), launches.[ citation need
]
|
| 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.[58]
|
| 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.[59]
|
| 2012
|
April 29
|
Ecosystem
|
AWS Marketplace is “an online store where customers can find, buy, and quickly deploy software that runs on AWS.”[60][61]
|
| 2012 |
June 11 |
Product (security) |
Amazon launches AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for EC2.[62]
|
| 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.[63][64][65]
|
| 2012 |
July 30 |
Product (storage) |
Provisioned IOPS (PIOPs) are a new EBS volume type designed to deliver predictable, higher performance for I/O intensive workloads.[66][67]
|
| 2012 |
August 21 |
Product (storage) |
Amazon launches Amazon Glacier, an online file storage web service that provides storage for data archiving and backup.[68]
|
| 2012 |
November |
Product (storage) |
AWS announces Amazon Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse service.[69]
|
| 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).[70]
|
| 2013
|
March 26
|
Product
|
AWS CloudHSM[71]
|
| 2013 |
June 4 |
Competition |
IBM acquires SoftLayer, which marks IBM’s entry into cloud computing.[73]
|
| 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.[74]
|
| 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.[75]
|
| 2013 |
November 13 |
Product
|
AWS CloudTrail[76] web service that records API calls made on your account and delivers log files to your Amazon S3 bucket
|
| 2013 |
December 17 |
Product (data flow) |
Amazon releases Amazon Kinesis, a service for real-time processing of streaming data.[77][78]
|
| 2013 |
December 18 |
Regional diversification |
AWS launches in China, with a limited preview of its Beijing region.[79][80] 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.[81]
|
| 2014 |
August |
Security Certification |
AWS first to achieve MTCS Level 3 Certification.[82]
|
| 2014 |
October 23 |
Regional diversification |
AWS launches its second region in Europe, specifically, eu-central-1 in Frankfurt, Germany.[83]
|
| 2014 |
November 12 |
Product (database) |
AWS announces Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database offering enhanced high availability and performance.[84][85] The feature becomes available to all AWS customers on July 27, 2015.[86][87]
|
| 2014 |
November 12 |
Product (security) |
AWS Key Management Service[88]
|
| 2014 |
November 13 |
Product (compute) |
AWS launches a preview of EC2 Container Service (ECS), facilitating the use of container infrastructure on AWS. Third-party integration such as those with Docker are available at the time of release.[89][90][91][92]
|
| 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.[93][94] 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.[95][96][97]
|
| 2014 |
December 17 |
Product |
Introduction of Resource Groups and Tag Editor in AWS Management Console[98]
|
| 2015 |
February 12 |
Product |
Introduction of permission and privileged policies managed by Amazon in AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM).[99]
|
| 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.[100]
|
| 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.[101]
|
| 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.[102][103][104]
|
| 2015 |
July 9 |
Product |
AWS CodePipeline continuous delivery service[105]
|
| 2015 |
July 9 |
Product |
AWS launches AWS API Gateway Service.[106]
|
| 2015 |
October 1 |
Product |
AWS launches AWS Elasticsearch Service.[107]
|
| 2015 |
October 7 |
Product |
AWS Inspector preview will be available soon.[108]
|
| 2015 |
October 7 |
QuickSight |
Amazon QuickSight – Fast & Easy to Use Business Intelligence for Big Data at 1/10th the Cost of Traditional Solutions.[109]
|
| 2015 |
October 7 |
Product (data migration) |
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.[110][111] This is the second generation of their data import/export hardware after a previous release in 2009.[111]
|
| 2015 |
October 8 |
Product (Internet of Things) |
AWS announces its managed cloud platform for the Internet of Things.[112][113] The platform becomes generally available on December 18, 2015.[114]
|
| 2015 |
December 21 |
Product |
AWS announces an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), a fully managed Docker container registry.[115]
|
| 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.[116]
|
| 2016 |
March |
Partnerships, Competition |
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.[117][118][119]
|
| 2016 |
May 18 |
Product (Computing) |
AWS announces Automatic Auto Scaling for Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) services.[120]
|
| 2016 |
June 21 |
Product (Computing) |
AWS announces AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to provisioning and managing SSL/TLS certificates.[121]
|
| 2016 |
June 27 |
Regional diversification |
AWS launches its first region in India, located in Mumbai, and called ap-south-1.[122][123][124][125]
|
| 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.[126][127][128] The service was originally announced on April 9, 2015.[129][130]
|
| 2016 |
July 14 |
Acquisitions |
AWS acquires Cloud9, a San Francisco–based startup that has built an integrated development environment (IDE) for web and mobile developers to collaborate.
|
| 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.[131][132]
|
| 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.[133][134][135]
|
| 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.[136][137][138]
|
| 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).[139][140][141][142]
|
| 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.[142][143][144]
|
| 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.[145][146][147] 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.[148]
|
| 2016 |
November 30 |
Product |
Amazon Polly text-to-speech product[149]
|
| 2016
|
November 30
|
Product (AI)
|
Amazon Rekognition pre-trained computer vision API[149]
|
| 2016
|
November 30
|
Product (AI)
|
Amazon Lex chatbot builder[149]
|
| 2016 |
December 1 |
Product |
Amazon Pinpoint[150] tool designed to let developers send targeted push notifications.
|
| 2016
|
December 1
|
Product
|
Amazon Step Functions[151] tool design to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows.
|
| 2016 |
December 8 |
Regional diversification |
AWS launches its first region in Canada, called ca-central-1 for Canada (Central).[152][153]
|
| 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.[154][155][156] Plans for the region had been announced in November 2015.[157]
|
| 2016 |
December 22 |
Product (Compute) |
AWS EC2 Systems Manager management service to automate configuration and magament of EC2 and On-Premises Systems.[158]
|
| 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.[159][160][161]
|
| 2017 |
August 14 |
Product (database) |
Amazon Glue – a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service[162]
|
| 2017 |
August 30 |
Product (database) |
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility[163][164]
|
| 2017 |
October 24 |
Product (database) |
Amazon Aurora Fast Database Cloning feature[165]
|
| 2017
|
November 8
|
Product
|
Amazon MQ fully managed service for open source message brokers[166]
|
| 2017 |
November 9 |
Product |
AWS Privatelink[167]
|
| 2017 |
November 29 |
Product |
Amazon Systems Manager user interface to view operational data and automate operational task.[168]
|
| 2017 |
November 29 |
Product |
AWS Fargate service for deploying and managing containers without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure[169]
|
| 2017
|
November 29
|
Product (AI)
|
Amazon SageMaker managed machine learning service[170][171]
|
| 2017
|
November 29
|
Product (AI)
|
Amazon Translate provides natural language translation.[172][173]
|
| 2017
|
November 29
|
Product (AI)
|
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition software.[173][174]
|
| 2017 |
December 14 |
Product |
AWS CloudWatch agent for Linux and Windows which allows collection of disk and memory metrics as well as logs.[175]
|
| 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.[176]
|
| 2017
|
December 18
|
Product
|
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate and AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise become available in nine regions.[177]
|
| 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 [178][179]
|
| 2018 |
June 5 |
Product (compute) |
AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions.[180]
|
| 2018
|
September 11–12
|
Acquisitions
|
Amazon acquires the aws.com domain from Earth Networks, formerly known as Automated Weather Source.[181]
|
| 2018
|
November
|
Product
|
AWS Ground Station is released.[182]
|
| 2018
|
November 26
|
Product
|
AWS Global Accelerator, a network service used to route data over Amazon’s private network[183]
|
| 2018
|
November 26
|
Product (CPU)
|
AWS Graviton CPU powered EC2 A1 instances are publicly available in 4 regions.[184]
|
| 2018
|
November 28
|
Product (compute)
|
AWS launches hibernation for EC2 instances.[185]
|
| 2018
|
November 28
|
Product (AI)
|
Amazon Textract is a “service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents.”[186][187]
|
| 2018
|
November 28
|
Product
|
AWS Lake Formation simplifies the process of setting up and maintaining a data lake.[188][189]
|
| 2018
|
November 28
|
Product (AI)
|
Amazon Personalize enables developers to create their own recommendation engines.[190][191]
|
| 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.[192][193]
|
| 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.[194][195]
|
| 2018
|
November 29
|
Product (compute)
|
Amazon MSK: Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka in Public Preview[196]
|
| 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.[197][198]
|
| 2019
|
March
|
Product
|
AWS App Mesh,[199] a service mesh that provides application level networking[200]
|
| 2019
|
July 29
|
Regional diversification
|
Amazon launches me-south-1 in Bahrain.[201]
|
| 2019
|
September 10
|
Product
|
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database[202]
|
| 2019
|
December 3
|
Product (CPU)
|
AWS Graviton2 CPU powered EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are launched.[203]
|
| 2019
|
December 3
|
Product (compute)
|
AWS Outposts allows AWS services to run in non-AWS datacenters.[204][205]
|
| 2019
|
December 3
|
Product
|
AWS Wavelength[206]
|
| 2020
|
April 22
|
Product
|
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service to securely transfer data between third-party SaaS offerings and AWS services.[207]
|
| 2020
|
April 22
|
Regional diversification
|
Amazon launches af-south-1 in Cape Town.[208]
|
| 2020
|
April 27
|
Regional diversification
|
Amazon launches eu-south-1 in Milan.[209]
|
| 2020
|
May 11
|
Product
|
Amazon Kendra, an intelligent enterprise search service powered by machine learning[210][211]
|
| 2020
|
June 24
|
Product
|
Amazon Honeycode, a no-code platform for web and mobile application development[212]
|
| 2020
|
July 9
|
Product
|
AWS Copilot[213]
|
| 2020
|
December 1
|
Product
|
Amazon CodeGuru, a developer tool that uses machine learning-based recommendations to improve code quality[215]
|
| 2021
|
March 1
|
Regional diversification
|
AWS expands Osaka Local Region (ap-northeast-3) to a standard AWS region with 3 Availability Zones[216]
|
| 2021
|
May 18
|
Product
|
AWS App Runner, a fully managed container application service[217]
|
| 2021
|
August 19
|
Product
|
Amazon MemoryDB, an in-memory database service with API compatible with that of Redis.[218]
|
| 2021
|
November 30
|
Product (CPU)
|
AWS Graviton3 CPU powered EC2 C7g instances are launched in preview.[219]
|
