{"id":10799,"date":"2021-03-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=10799"},"modified":"2021-03-14T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T00:35:02","slug":"cloud-computing-aws-celebrates-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-aws-celebrates-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: AWS Celebrates 15 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We first posted about Amazon AWS back in 2008<\/a>, just a few years after starting the service when the infrastructure bandwidth of AWS surpassed the bandwidth of the consumer Amazon.com shopping site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 <\/a>before interest and taxes in 2020 even though it accounts for just 12 percent of Amazon’s revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did AWS become so successful? Don Alvarez<\/a>, 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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top 10 Amazon AWS users and their annual spend are:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Netflix: $19 million<\/li>
  2. Twitch: $15 million<\/li>
  3. LinkedIn: $13 million<\/li>
  4. Facebook: $11 million<\/li>
  5. Turner Broadcasting: $10 million<\/li>
  6. BBC: $9 million<\/li>
  7. Baidu: $9 million<\/li>
  8. ESPN: $8 million<\/li>
  9. Adobe: $8 million<\/li>
  10. Twitter: $7 million<\/li><\/ol>\n
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    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…<\/span><\/p>\n

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