Which AWS storage service launched on March 14, 2006?

Which AWS storage service launched on March 14, 2006? The answer is Amazon S3.

Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Simple Storage Service, known as Amazon S3, in the United States on March 14, 2006. It introduced a web-accessible object-storage service designed to store and retrieve data at Internet scale.

S3 stores data as objects inside buckets rather than presenting users with a traditional disk or file-system hierarchy. Each object can include data, metadata, and a key, and applications access it through APIs or AWS tools. This model made S3 useful for backups, static websites, media, archives, data lakes, and application assets.

The date is often confused with the launches of other early AWS products. Amazon EC2, the compute service, arrived later in 2006, while Amazon CloudFront is a content-delivery network and Amazon RDS is a managed relational-database service. S3 became foundational to AWS and later expanded into multiple storage classes and regional infrastructure.