When Did Every AWS Service Launch?

Last updated: 20 March 2026 Last week I made a 6-minute video about the history of AWS and S3 to celebrate S3's 20th birthday (our baby is all grown up!). I did extensive research for this and as part of this I kept finding myself looking up things like "when did Lambda launch?" and "was DynamoDB before or after Redshift?" and getting frustrated that there wasn't a single page with all the dates in one place. I've always wanted to put one together, but I was too lazy to manually go through hundreds of launch announcements across 20 years of What's New posts. But now we live in the future! Then I started using the AWS MCP Server - a remote Model Context Protocol server that gives AI assistants authenticated access to AWS documentation, APIs, and pre-built workflows. One of its tools (search_documentation) lets you search across all AWS documentation, including the "What's New" announcements. This is super handy for keeping track of launches too - if you want to learn more, I have a whol