The United States is the world’s most powerful country in terms of economic output, measured by gross domestic product, or GDP for short. Massive, world-class tech companies populate the United States, particularly Central California – more specifically, the Silicon Valley region that is found within the San Francisco Bay Area – en masse:

  • Apple is the world’s largest tech company by means of 2018 revenue.
  • Amazon is the third, though it employs some four times as many workers as Apple.
  • Alphabet, the parent company of Google, finishes in fifth place.
  • Microsoft comes in sixth place.
  • IBM finishes in ninth.
  • Rounding out the top ten tech companies in terms of annual revenue in 2018 is Dell.

No other single country on this list is home to more than one member of this top ten list. As such, it’s safe to say that the United States is something else when it comes to having served as the birthplace of these tech giants, as well as providing them a fertile bed of proverbial soil in which they’ve grown to their massive contemporary sizes.


Understanding How Amazon Got Its Start

Unlike most of the world’s top tech companies, Amazon didn’t start off with the intention of making it big thanks to the help of tech such as smartphones, though the company did use the World Wide Web as a platform to sell books, which was originally the exclusive type of inventory that Amazon sold to customers.

When Amazon learned that it had to power up its website in order to gain a competitive advantage, it began working on what would eventually became Amazon Web Services, also known as AWS, which was formally created in 2006.

One of the most important things that Amazon Web Services did was recognize the potential of cloud computing, immediately after which the company began implementing such storage solutions to its operations.

Amazon’s AWS Is Soon to Face Major, Big-Time Competition

According to a recent report by market research firm Gartner, Microsoft is almost certain to start drawing in tons of contracts that offer up access to its cloud storage system to customers thanks to its market-wide superiority in providing software-as-a-services, or SaaS for short, solutions.

Google is also in place to send major competition in the way of Amazon thanks to its eponymous Google Cloud. These two companies’ cloud services growth is good, as another Gartner survey of recent that surveyed major companies’ CIOs claimed that over 80% of them planned on using two or more providers’ cloud storage services in the near future.