AWS is currently dominating the cloud computing market with a 34% share.
Customers prefer AWS over Azure because of its flexibility and the range of products and services it offers. AWS is far superior to Azure across all of its functions.
In 2006, AWS was launched to function as a storage and a virtual server. Today, AWS has more than 70 other services including networking, database, analytics, software, and more.
NASA, one of AWS’ biggest customers, is using AWS to process the data that they receive from Mars.
AWS is fully advocating and committing to going green by using renewable energy. AWS is planning to power their operations with 100% renewable by 2025.
S3, Amazon’s storage service on AWS, can hold trillions of objects and serves up millions of requests per second!
It is estimated that the entire AWS customer population use 143 million hours of services per month from 2,500 third-party software services.
On May 13, 2013, AWS was awarded an Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.
In 2013, CIA awarded AWS with a $600 million contract.
In August 2014, AWS received Department of Defense-Wide provisional authorization for all U.S. Regions.
As of Q3 2022, AWS earnings came in at $20.5 billion. Amazon’s cloud computing sector reportedly had $65.20 billion revenue in 2021.
The table below shows us how AWS’s revenue through the years.
Ever since its launch, you can see how AWS was quite a success. With each new year, revenue went higher than ever, making the graph look like a staircase.
Amazon’s total employee count is included in their annual reports. However, information on the number of their employees on their cloud segment, Amazon Web Services, is not revealed in their reports.
Although, we can estimate how many people work on AWS based on their Linkedin profile.
As of 2022, AWS reported that they have more than 136,000 employees based on their Linkedin profile.
A large service like AWS requires quite a lot of employees, as you can see.
The table below shows you the precise numbers in 2018 and 2022.
How many products and services are offered on AWS Marketplace?
As of June 2021, the table below shows us the number of product and services offered on AWS marketplace by category.
Category
Number of Products and Services
Infrastructure Software
5,000
DevOps
3,700
Data Products
3,400
Business Applications
1,700
Machine Learning
1,100
Professional Services
1,000
Industries
800
I.T.
300
The largest category of services in AWS is Infrastructure Sofware, with 5,00 products. Then, the lowest one is the I.T. industry, with only 300 services..
With a 34% market share in the cloud computing industry, AWS definitely dominates cloud hosting. There is no official number released by Amazon Web Services.
However, according to BuiltWith, there are currently more than 64 million live websites that are using AWS.
In 2016, AWS stated on their blog that there were more than 1 million AWS individual active users.
In the latest years, there is no official statement on how many AWS individual active users there are across the world.
The information on the number of individual active users has been greatly saturated with the fact that AWS is being used by multiple organizations and companies that have millions of users each.
Can we say that the users of these various organizations and companies are using AWS? Yes, we can.
Can we count their number? It is possible but not recommendable.
It would be better to identify the top organizations and companies instead.
The exact breakdown of how Amazon earns revenue through AWS is still disclosed. In its earlier days, AWS served developers and end users as an outsourced provider for the most basic types of computing functions. AWS charges money across all of its products.
Some of these are charges for the usage of their databases, developer tools, blockchain, machine learning, and more.
AWS also promotes a strategy wherein the more a company, organization or user uses their products, the more they save on their prices.
Availability zones are multiple isolated locations within each region. These are determined by physical data centers that AWS has in those locations, meaning it also answers “Where is AWS available in which countries?”.
As of 2022, Amazon stated that AWS is serving 245 countries and territories. Around the world, the AWS cloud expands across 96 availability zones within 30 geographic regions.
There are 15 more Availability zones and 5 more AWS regions in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand.
AWS availability zones and regions: Europe/ Middle East/ Africa
There are are 33 availability zones with eleven geographic Regions, 39 edge network locations and two Regional Edge cache locations in Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
Amazon Aurora-Designed for unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility
Amazon RDS- Set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud with just a few clicks
Amazon Redshift- Accelerate your time to insights with fast, easy, and secure cloud data warehousing at scale
Key-value
High-traffic web applications, eCommerce systems, gaming applications
Amazon DynamoDB- Fast, flexible NoSQL database service for single-digit millisecond performance at any scale
Amazon ElastiCache- Unlock microsecond latency and scale with in-memory caching
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis - Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database service for ultra-fast performance
Document
Content management, catalogs, user profiles
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
Scale JSON workloads with ease using a fully managed document database service
Wide Column
High-scale industrial apps for equipment maintenance, fleet management, and route optimization
Amazon Keyspaces -A scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service
Graph
Fraud detection, social networking, recommendation engines
Amazon Neptune - Build and run graph applications with highly connected datasets
Time Series
Internet of Things (IoT) applications, DevOps, industrial telemetry
Amazon Timestream- Fast, scalable, serverless time series database
Ledger
Systems of record, supply chain, registrations, banking transactions
Amazon Ledger Database Service (QLDB) — Maintain an immutable, cryptographically verifiable log of data changes
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