AWS Malaysia Graduate Programs & Internships

What It Does: It provides on-demand Cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments,

Staff Stats: 46000 employees globally 

Financials: US$46 billion

The AWS Story

The genesis of AWS was when in the early 2000s, experience with building Merchant.com, Amazon's e-commerce-as-a-service platform for third-party retailers to build their own web-stores, made them pursue service-oriented architecture as a means to scale their engineering operations led by the then CTO, Allan Vermeulen.

In July 2002, Amazon.com Web Services, managed by Colin Bryar, launched its first web services opening up the Amazon.com platform to all developers. Over a hundred applications were built on top of it by 2004. This unexpected developer interest took Amazon by surprise and convinced them that developers were "hungry for more.

By the Summer of 2003, Andy Jassy had taken over Bryar's portfolio at Rick Dalzell's behest, after Vermeulen, who was Bezos' first pick, declined the offer. Jassy subsequently laid down the vision for an "Internet OS made up of foundational infrastructure primitives that alleviated key impediments to shipping software applications faster. By fall 2003, databases, compute, and compute were identified as the first set of infrastructure pieces that Amazon should launch

In September 2007, AWS announced the annual Start-up Challenge, a contest with prizes worth $100,000 for entrepreneurs and software developers based in the US using AWS services such as S3 and EC2 to build their businesses. The first edition saw participation from Justin. Tv which Amazon would later acquire in 2014. Ooyala an online media company, was the eventual winner.