HISTORY OF DEV

March 14, 2006

Amazon S3 launched

Amazon Web Services launched Simple Storage Service (S3) on March 14, 2006 — pay-per-use object storage with an HTTPHyperText Transfer Protocol — the protocol browsers use to request and receive web pages. APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service..

What it was for

Amazon Web ServicesS3 (`PUT`/`GET` buckets and keys) became the default blob store for backups, static sites, ML datasets, and CI artifacts. Its durability SLA and pricing model defined cloud object storage — every `s3://` URI in a tutorial traces here.

Companies

  • Amazon

Why it's here

S3 pioneered commodity object storage as a cloud APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service..

Why it mattered

It removed the need to operate file servers for static assets and archives.

What it solved

TeamsMicrosoft Teams — chat, video calls, and Office integration for workplace collaboration. provisioned NAS and FTPFile Transfer Protocol — a classic protocol for uploading and downloading files over networks. servers for files that needed global, durable storage.

Media

  • Amazon Web Services
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