Public Stats

Question 1

How many active customers?

Answer 1

AWS has millions of active customers every month

Question 2

What is the business?

Answer 2

AWS is a large and rapidly growing business. Q2 2019 revenue for the AWS segment increased 37% y/y to $8.4 billion, making AWS a $33 billion dollar run rate business. [July 25, 2019]

Question 3

AWS is the fastest enterprise ____ to reach a ____ run-rate.

Answer 3

AWS is the fastest enterprise IT vendor to reach a $10 billion run-rate.

Question 4

How many AZ’s and Regions?

Answer 4

The AWS global infrastructure is comprised of 69 Availability Zones within 22 geographic Regions [July 30, 2019]

Question 5

Plans for AZ’s and Regions?

Answer 5

Announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more Regions in Indonesia, Italy, and South Africa. [July 30, 2019]

Question 6

Global network of Edge locations?

Answer 6

The global network of AWS Edge locations now consists of 187 Points of Presence (176 Edge Locations and 11 Regional Edge Caches) in 69 cities across 30 countries. [June 26, 2019]

Question 7

Number of price reductions?

Answer 7

Reduced prices 75 times since AWS launched in 2006. [Sept 26, 2019].

Question 8

How many services?

Answer 8

AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 165 fully featured services.

Question 9

What are the services for?

Answer 9

Compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management .

Question 10

Number of new services and features released each year?

Answer 10

In 2011, we released over 80 new significant services and features, followed by nearly 160 in 2012; 280 in 2013; 516 in 2014; 722 in 2015; 1,017 in 2016; 1,430 in 2017; and 1,957 in 2018. [March 1, 2019]

Question 11

Amazon ____ holds _____ of objects and regularly peaks at _____ of requests per _____.

Answer 11

Amazon S3 holds trillions of objects and regularly peaks at millions of requests per second.

Question 12

In _____, S3 processes peaks of over ____ of traffic in a ____.

Answer 12

In a single region, S3 processes peaks of over 60 tbps of traffic in a day. [November 28, 2018]

Question 13

AWS _____ runs _____ containers for customers every _____.

Answer 13

AWS Fargate runs tens of millions of containers for customers every week. [November 28, 2018]

Question 14

Since _____ there has been more than ____ growth in the container instances running on Amazon ____.

Answer 14

Since January 1, 2017, there has been more than 750% growth in the container instances running on Amazon Elastic Container Service. [As of November 28, 2018]

Question 15

On average, every week, AWS customers are using more compute capacity on Amazon _____ than customers in _____ were running across all of Amazon ____.

Answer 15

On average, every week, AWS customers are using more compute capacity on Amazon EC2 Spot instances than customers in 2013 were running across all of Amazon EC2.

Question 16

Amazon _____ is the fastest growing service in the history of AWS.

Answer 16

Amazon Aurora is the fastest growing service in the history of AWS.

Question 17

_____ AWS customers use Amazon Aurora for their ______ – a number that has more than ______ from _____ to ______.

Answer 17

Tens of thousands of AWS customers use Amazon Aurora for their relational databases – a number that has more than doubled from November 2017 to November 2018. [November 26, 2018]

Question 18

How many databases have been migrated using AWS Database Migration Service?

Answer 18

More than 130,000 databases have been migrated using AWS Database Migration Service. [April 19, 2019]

Question 19

How many customers use Amazon Dynamo DB?

Answer 19

More than a hundred thousand AWS customers use Amazon DynamoDB.

Question 20

Amazon’s internal Amazon DynamoDB usage exceeds ____ requests per day, peaking at ____ requests per second.

Answer 20

Amazon’s internal Amazon DynamoDB usage exceeds 10 trillions of requests per day, peaking at over 20 million requests per second.

Question 21

How many customers use Amazon Relational Database Service?

Answer 21

Amazon Relational Database Service has hundreds of thousands of customers [February 2018].

Question 22

By the end of ____, Amazon’s Consumer business will have ____ of their ____ DBs (and ___ of critical system DBs) moved to ____ and _____.

Answer 22

By the end of 2018, Amazon’s Consumer business will have 88% of their Oracle DBs (and 97% of critical system DBs) moved to Aurora and DynamoDB.

Question 23

More than __ percent of the world’s biggest public game companies, including ____, ____, and ____, are using AWS.

Answer 23

More than 90 percent of the world’s biggest public game companies, including Activision, Supercell, and Ubisoft, are using AWS.

Question 24

How many customers are using Amazon SageMaker?

Answer 24

More than 10,000 customers are using Amazon SageMaker. [As of November 28, 2018]

Question 25

How many customers are using Amazon Redshift?

Answer 25

More than 10,000 customers use Amazon Redshift. [November 28, 2018]

Question 26

How many executions are processed by AWS Lambda?

Answer 26

At just 3 years after general availability, AWS Lambda already processes trillions of executions every month. [November 26, 2018]

Question 27

How many customers are using AWS Lambda?

Answer 27

AWS Lambda has hundreds of thousands of active customers every month. [November 26, 2018]

Question 28

How fast is Amazon EC2 for Microsoft Windows Server growing?

Answer 28

AWS enterprise customers using Amazon EC2 for Microsoft Windows Server grew by over 400%. [November 26, 2018]

Question 29

Who are AWS new ML customers?

Answer 29

New customers using AWS machine learning technologies to reimagine customer experiences and innovate across their businesses include Articulate, Cathay Pacific, Cerner, Cookpad, Cox Automotive, DailyLook, DigitalGlobe, Dow Jones, Echo360, Edmunds.com, Enetpulse, Expedia.com, FamilySearch, FICO, GE Healthcare, Genesys, Grammarly, Intuit, KloudGin, Lau Brothers, Limbik, Lionbridge, NFL, One Hour Translation, Polotico.eu, POPSUGAR, PubNub, Realtor.com, RedAwning.com, Shutterfly, TINT, Tinder, VidMob, VMWare, and ZipRecruiter [April 2018].

Question 30

How fast is Amazon Connect growing?

Answer 30

AWS customer usage of Amazon Connect grew over 900% from November 2017 to November 2018. Thousands of AWS customers are using Amazon Connect, with large enterprises like Intuit and Capital One adopting tens of thousands of agents. [November 26, 2018]

Question 31

Amazon ____ monitors more than ____ metric observations, triggers more than ____ events, and ingests more than ____ logs per month.

Answer 31

Amazon CloudWatch monitors more than 1 quadrillion (or 1000 trillion) metric observations, triggers more than 3.9 trillion events, and ingests more than 100 petabytes of logs per month. [October 2018]

Question 32

Over ___ government agencies, over ___ academic institutions and over ___ nonprofit organizations around the world use AWS.

Answer 32

Over 4,000 government agencies, over 9,000 academic institutions and over 27,000 nonprofit organizations around the world use AWS. [As of November 26. 2018]

Question 33

How many scenes are available on Landsat for AWS?

Answer 33

Over 1 million scenes are now available on Landsat for AWS.

Question 34

How many times has the data been requested from Landsat on AWS?

Answer 34

Since its launch in March 2015, the data has been requested over 7 billion times.

Question 35

How many institutions are members of AWS Educate?

Answer 35

More than 2,400 institutions are members of AWS Educate, including Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell Tech, Seoul National University and the National College of Ireland.

Question 36

The top 10 ____ institutions in the ____ QS World University Rankings are members of AWS _____.

Answer 36

The top 10 Global Computer Science & Information Systems institutions in the 2017 QS World University Rankings are members of AWS Educate.

Question 37

How many students have joined AWS Educate?

Answer 37

Hundreds of thousands of students have joined AWS Educate since its launch.

Question 38

Over ____ _____ have enrolled in AWS _____.

Answer 38

Over 10,000 educators have enrolled in AWS Educate.

Question 39

____ in more than ____ countries and territories have enrolled in AWS ____.

Answer 39

Students in more than 200 countries and territories have enrolled in AWS Educate.

Question 40

The AWS ____ Region has ___ compounded annual growth rate since ___.

Answer 40

The AWS GovCloud (US) Region has ___ compounded annual growth rate since ___.

Question 41

____ of students, educators, and researchers in over ___ countries and territories have access to ___ ___ and online curriculum running on AWS.

Answer 41

Hundreds of millions of students, educators, and researchers in over 200 countries and territories have access to education technologies and online curriculum running on AWS. [As of January 17, 2019]

Question 42

__ of the top __ most well-funded U.S. Education Technology startups FN1 are using AWS, including ____, ___, ____, and ___. [As of January 17, 2019]

Answer 42

19 of the top 20 most well-funded U.S. Education Technology startups FN1 are using AWS, including Civitas Learning, Coursera, Echo360, and Schoology. [As of January 17, 2019]

Question 43

___ of R1 Research Institutions are using AWS, including ___, ___, and the____.

Answer 43

96% of R1 Research Institutions are using AWS, including Cornell University, Arizona State University, and the University of Notre Dame. [As of January 17, 2019]

Question 44

How fast is ECS, EKS, and Fargate growing?

Answer 44

Year over year as of August 2019, AWS customer usage of Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and AWS Fargate grew by more than 150%. [As of Sept 25. 2019]