2006 founded Standing
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AWS
the moat is real
20 years 159 days and counting
S3 launched 14 Mar 2006. The most important boring company of the internet.
Why it lasted
- S3 and EC2 became the nouns. Every other cloud is compared to them.
- The enterprise sales machine plus the primitive set is a two-decade head start.
- It prints the money that lets Amazon retail look like a hobby.
Times it almost ended
- Azure and GCP exist because AWS left money on the table, not because AWS stumbled.
- The 2017 S3 outage taught the internet it had a single point of failure. They still did not leave.
What would finish it
- A developer default that is not AWS (Cloudflare, a simpler PaaS) plus enterprises getting tired of the bill. The bill is the product.
Questions
Is AWS still up?
Yes, with a Standing verdict: the moat is real. Founded 2006.
How long has AWS been around?
AWS has been up since 2006-03-14.
Why did AWS survive?
S3 and EC2 became the nouns. Every other cloud is compared to them.
Could AWS still die?
A developer default that is not AWS (Cloudflare, a simpler PaaS) plus enterprises getting tired of the bill. The bill is the product.