# How AWS came to be

<https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/02/andy-jassys-brief-history-of-the-genesis-of-aws/amp/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

There are lots of stories about the formation of AWS, but this much we know: 10 years ago, Amazon Web Services, the cloud Infrastructure as a Service arm of Amazon.com, was launched with little

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