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That is, assuming that anyone actually uses Lumberyard/GameLift. (Do they? Can anyone name a nontrivial game?)

Nontrivial games take time to make.

While yes it takes a lot of time to make a game the indie scene isn't interested simply because of unity's dominance.

The AAA scene is using their own engines or the unreal engine. While you can switch engines when creating a new game the incentive isn't there when you either already have licenses for the unreal engine and a small army of programmers who have mastered it.

People were expecting a shit to Unreal when they decided to make it free for education/take a 5 % cut. This shift hasn't happened...

Fair point. Still, it's been nearly a year. Has anyone so much as announced a Lumberyard game, even?

I believe the game Streamline, released November 18th, is built with Lumberyard and makes use of its Twitch integration. This game's studio had support from Amazon.

https://steamdb.info/app/252850/graphs/

The game was free until November 18th 9am PST, so the current active ~100 daily players is more representative of its success.

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