When
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
launched 20 years ago, technical evangelist
Jeff Barr
was on the road pitching compute at 10 cents an hour, wondering at dinner if enough people had signed up to cover his steak. Today AWS generates nearly $129 billion a year in revenue. Amazon plans to spend $200 billion this year, most of it on AI infrastructure, to make sure the pennies keep adding up. We spoke with early leaders, current insiders, and others to tell the story of how AWS got started, how it won the cloud, and what it’s up against in the age of AI. Read more.
(Above: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos framed this 2006 BusinessWeek cover, reflecting Wall Street’s skepticism about AWS at the time, and its belief that he should “just mind the store.”)
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