"The acquisition, which completed on May 1, brings 70 cloud specialists into the wider group”.
For comparison, Amazon has 40,000 employees in AWS.
For comparison, Amazon has 40,000 employees in AWS.
No need to waste resources on products such as AWS Greengrass, or AWS Lumberyard, or even AWS EKS.
My guess at the total headcount for EC2 would be several thousand employees.
Source: worked as an engineer at Amazon, including EC2 for 5 years.
If you're talking about Digital Ocean, Mongo, and other medium sized players, then I only give them a couple more years before things get really ugly.
So maybe you're even underestimating!
EC2 has thousands of engineers by my estimation. Source: I worked thete.
There are 200+ AWS services now. So just 8 engineers (2 pizza team) for each service would be 1600 engineers. Let alone marketing, enterprise sales etc.
The REAPER DAW was written by one person. The initial Linux kernel was written by one person. cURL was written by one person and even your BMW uses it [1]. The original Skype was written by three programmers. The list goes on... Of course, you later get a lot of maintainers joining the projects. But you certainly don't need 40 000 programmers if you are not selling your product, or not selling it yet. And even then I think a lot of those jobs are, while they are useful for AWS, not part of the core development.
AWS is nearing 50% larger than SAP in sales, which have 101,000 employees.
AWS is now approximately the size of Oracle in sales, which have 136,000 employees.
Source: worked at Amazon for 5 years, including EC2.