2026-09-11
The product history of AWS, and why it ranks 7th
AWS booked $128.725 billion in 2025 net sales — 18% of Amazon's total — and produced 57% of the whole company's operating income. The first thing it ever sold was a virtual machine at 10 cents an hour, in 2006. It ranks 7th at 94.05, with originality 97 behind only the iPhone and the shipping container in the top ten, and scale 92 the only sub-95 score up there. This is the product history in order, and what the score is measuring.
