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Amazon Web Services

Acquired

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The Evolution and Impact of AWS

This chapter explores Amazon's extensive 13-year transition from Oracle databases to Amazon Web Services (AWS), highlighting innovative technologies like DynamoDB. It emphasizes AWS's impressive financial growth, with a revenue backlog exceeding $100 billion and a current run rate of $80 billion, while discussing its transformative role in the tech industry. Additionally, the chapter addresses AWS's challenges in the data warehouse sector, particularly in competition with Snowflake, and reflects on strategic decisions that may have hindered its market alignment.

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