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The Innovations Free Compute and Storage Unleash

Tom Tunguz

AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. When I worked at Google in 2005, we would test individual machine learning models one or two at a time. Cloud computing prices are hurtling to zero. Storage is following a similar path.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

Five people in the digital team were looking at blockchain projects and three people on that digital team were looking for long term AI transformation. You don’t hear about the blockchain initiatives anymore. Is AWS in the lead? Aaron Levie: Yeah, I think certainly, we started the company in 2005.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in the US

SmartKarrot

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. The services include customer engagement , immersive virtualization technologies, analytics, and blockchain. Founded in: 2005.