The very first sentence of this article contains an error:

> Over the past 19 years (S3 was launched on March 14th 2006, as the first public AWS service), object storage has become the gold standard for storing large amounts of data in the cloud.

While it’s true that S3 is the gold standard, it was not the first AWS service, which was in fact SQS in 2004.

I thought S3 was first as well.

This is the source Wikipedia uses: https://web.archive.org/web/20041217191947/http://aws.typepa...

author here - took that quote from this[1] blog post by an AWS VP/distinguished engineer, the use of "public service" might have some loosely defined meaning in this context.

[1] https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/03/in-s3-simplicit...