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AWS History

In 2003 Amazon had figured out they held a key advantage over their competitors. This advantage was their ability to manage and scale infrastructure reliably and effectively. This is how AWS was born. Within three years Amazon turned this idea into reality. In 2006 Amazon Simple Queue Service was launched which was then followed by S3, and EC2. Together the technologies would be the first offerings of AWS and build the foundations for Amazon to become a cloud computing superpower. Currently there is over 200 services offered by Amazon. The interconnectivity they provide allow small startup companies to succeed and prosper.

The Teams' History

Alex, Tanner and I each took a cloud computing class with Professor Adam Goldstein during the Fall semester of our senior year. Within a few classes we became captivated by how vast AWS actually is. This then prompted our nerds cells that we need to master all 200 services. Professor Goldstein saw our intrigue and proposed a question to us "Do you have a capstone project? If not how about a transition of Cyber.local to the cloud?". Not having played around in the cloud too much yet we were all hesitant. Eventually, we all agreed that the opportunity was too good of an experience and said yes. We then started researching the best way of creating a network from scratch in the cloud and got started.