• Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos
• Headquarters in Seattle, Washington DC, USA
• Provides multiple services:
• Amazon.com
• Prime Videos
• Prime Music
• Twitch.tv
• Amazon Grocery Store
• Amazon AI
• Low Orbit Sattelites

A cloud service provider (CSP) is a company which:

• Provides Multiple Cloud Services for example Compute, Storage,Database,Networking capablities, and much much more!
• These cloud services can be chained together to create a cloud architecture!

• All of these services are accessible via a Unified API.
• These cloud services utilize metered billing based on usage. (miliseconds, seconds, hrs, etc)
• They have righ monitored billing (AWS Cloudtrail)
• They generally have a base Infrastructure As A Service (IAAS) offering on which the whole infrastructure is built upon.
• They offer Automation via Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Launched in 2006
• Simple Queue Service (SQS) was the first AWS Service to be launched for public use in 2006
• Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in March-2006
• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was launched in August-2006
• In November-2010, it was reported that all of amazon.com was migrated to inhouse AWS

If a company offers multiple cloud services under a single UI, but does not meet all the above requirements, it would be referred to as a cloud platform (and not a CSP) Eg. Twilio, HashiCorp, Databricks.