AWS at 20*: Inside the rise of Amazon's cloud empire, and what's at stake in the AI era

Share Jeff Bezos framed this copy ofa 2006 BusinessWeek cover, reflecting Wall Street's skepticism about AWS at the time. (Jeff Bezos via X, May 2022) In the early days of Amazon Web Services, technical evangelist Jeff Barrwas putting in long hours on the road, pitching a novel concept: rent computing power for 10 cents an hour, and storage for 15 cents a gigabyte per month — no servers to buy, no data centers to build. Barr remembers calling his wife to check in at the end of the day. Get a nice dinner, sh ...