Then in 2009 they said okay this thing is getting big, lots of people are using AWS so we need to enhance the management of this because that's going to let it be even bigger. In addition to this in 2007 they introduced the Simple DB solution for database access and utilization and then in 2008 they introduced Elastic IP which gave you the ability to actually have a static IP address for your EC2 instances so that they could be reached from the internet as a public instance on the internet. Now realize that wasn't the end of the growth. So this was that 2006 re-launch when they really became Amazon Web Services in part as we know them today. So there was actually a re-launch that happened in 2006 and when this happened they introduced the Simple Storage Service, or S3 Service, which allows you to store objects in buckets in AWS and they also included at that time SQS as well as EC2 Services which lets you run a virtual server in the cloud. And eventually then they realized this is working so let's look at the other parts and pieces that we use in Amazon to make things work and let's begin offering these as part of this solution. And they had an internal discussion trying to determine whether this is something the world needs or not and eventually it was approved and they launched the very first ever of a Amazon Web Services solution back in 2004 but then it was just one thing called SQS, or the Simple Queue Service. They had built custom, in-house solutions that served their own needs and they realized that maybe other people could benefit from this as well. Yes the very famous that started out selling books and now sells just about everything under the sun. Now interestingly it all started out internal to the organization at Amazon.

So I want to take some time now to talk a little bit about the history of Amazon Web Services, or AWS. As I've said previously understanding the history of any technology can help you better understand that specific technology.

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