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Cloud Computing: AWS Celebrates 15 Years
We first posted about Amazon AWS back in 2008, just a few years after starting the service when the infrastructure bandwidth of AWS surpassed the bandwidth of the consumer Amazon.com shopping site.
Yesterday was not only Pi day, but it also marked the fifteenth anniversary of AWS. AWS has brown to a behemoth over the last 15 years and many companies have built their business around those services. AWS made up 59 percent of Amazon’s $22.9 billion annual profit before interest and taxes in 2020 even though it accounts for just 12 percent of Amazon’s revenue.
How did AWS become so successful? Don Alvarez, CEO at AcceleratedPictures, said that “Amazon was putting infinite disk space in the hands of every startup at an incredibly low and pay-for-what-you-need price point, there was nothing like that. The second piece was that their API was so simple that i could just pick it up and build something useful in it, in the first 24 hours of using an unreleased, unannounced product.”
The top 10 Amazon AWS users and their annual spend are:
- Netflix: $19 million
- Twitch: $15 million
- LinkedIn: $13 million
- Facebook: $11 million
- Turner Broadcasting: $10 million
- BBC: $9 million
- Baidu: $9 million
- ESPN: $8 million
- Adobe: $8 million
- Twitter: $7 million
