Amazon started as an online bookstore, but behind the scenes it built a massive computing infrastructure to support its own growth. That internal challenge eventually led to Amazon Web Services, or AWS, which transformed computing by allowing companies to rent servers, storage, databases, and other infrastructure on demand.
In this video, we explore how AWS evolved from Amazon’s internal technology platform into one of the most important foundations of the modern internet. We look at the launch of S3 and EC2, the rise of cloud computing, why startups embraced AWS, how enterprises followed, and why the AI revolution is making cloud infrastructure even more strategically important.
From server rooms to programmable data centers, this is the story of how computing became a utility.