Timeline of Amazon Web Services

This is a timeline of Amazon Web Services, which offers a suite of cloud computing services that make up an on-demand computing platform.

How the timeline was built

 * The first iteration of the timeline was built by Alex K. Chen with payment from Vipul Naik, who provided a little bit of guidance. The version as of the end of this iteration is here.
 * The second iteration was worked on by Vipul Naik, using the following methods:
 * Extensive reading of the AWS blog and its archives, to get a sense of the types of product and service update announcements. Also, eyeballing through the posts in the TechCrunch tag on Amazon Web Services.
 * Completion of systematic coverage for all things in particular categories, such as: new region launches (just loaded up the list of regions and made sure a row is devoted to each), outages (scoured the Internet for list of major AWS outages and added them in), important products (relied on personal experience and hearsay on heaviest used AWS products).
 * Coverage of third-party reviews of AWS, such as the Gartner report.
 * More systematic coverage of major AWS users, their migration to and from AWS, or their start on AWS.

What the timeline is still missing

 * Release information on products and services that the people who've edited the timeline so far didn't consider important.
 * More insight into how competitor product release or advances in their cost structure, regional diversity or other aspects of their service have affected AWS.

Timeline update strategy

 * Look for new items covered on the AWS blog and the TechCrunch AWS tag when doing a single-sitting mass update of the timeline since the last update.
 * Add new region launches or other major product updates or outages, ideally as they happen.