AWS Origins & History
This online bookstore launched AWS in 2006 with its first services, S3 and SQS.
What is Amazon?
This flagship AWS compute service lets you launch virtual servers in the cloud.
What is Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)?
This AWS database service is a fully managed relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.
What is Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)?
This Amazon Leadership Principle starts with "Leaders start with the customer and work backwards."
What is Customer Obsession?
AWS infrastructure is organized into these geographic areas, each containing multiple Availability Zones.
What are Regions?
This was the first AWS service to launch publicly in March 2006, offering scalable object storage.
What is Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)?
This serverless compute service lets you run code without provisioning servers — you only pay for the time your code runs.
What is AWS Lambda?
This NoSQL key-value and document database offers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale.
What is Amazon DynamoDB?
Amazon’s annual cloud computing conference, held in Las Vegas, attracts tens of thousands of attendees each year.
What is AWS re:Invent?
These are isolated locations within a Region, each with independent power, cooling, and networking.
What are Availability Zones?
AWS launched its cloud computing platform in this year, forever changing the IT industry.
What is 2006?
This container orchestration service is AWS’s fully managed Kubernetes offering.
What is Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)?
This S3 storage class is designed for data that is rarely accessed and can tolerate retrieval times of minutes to hours at the lowest cost.
What is S3 Glacier Deep Archive?
This Leadership Principle states "Leaders are never done learning and always seek to improve themselves."
What is Learn and Be Curious?
This AWS service uses a global network of 600+ Points of Presence to deliver content with low latency.
What is Amazon CloudFront?
This former hedge fund VP became the first CEO of AWS and led its growth for over two decades.
Who is Andy Jassy?
This EC2 purchasing option lets you bid on unused capacity at up to 90% discount, but your instance may be interrupted.
What are Spot Instances?
This AWS-designed relational database is MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible but delivers up to 5x the throughput of standard MySQL.
What is Amazon Aurora?
Amazon uses this 1-page document format for proposing new ideas, beginning with a mock press release and FAQ.
What is a PR/FAQ (Working Backwards document)?
This was the first AWS Region launched outside of the United States, located in Europe.
What is EU (Ireland) / eu-west-1?
This 2003 internal mandate required all teams to expose their functionality through service interfaces — laying the groundwork for AWS.
What is the API Mandate (or Bezos API Memo)?
This AWS service brings cloud compute, storage, and networking to virtually any data center using the same APIs as in the cloud.
What is AWS Outposts?
This in-memory data store, compatible with Redis and Memcached, is used for caching and real-time applications.
What is Amazon ElastiCache?
This is the total number of Amazon Leadership Principles (as of 2024).
What is 16?
AWS currently operates in approximately this many Regions worldwide (as of 2024)
What is 33 (accept 30-35)?