Here are a few of the most interesting AWS statistics and facts I was able to dig up including user counts. As always, be sure to check back in the future as I will be updating this post as new and updated stats become available.
AWS Facts
- Website: Official Website
- Year Founded: 2006
- Headquarters: Seattle, WA
- Current Chief Executive: Andy Jassy
- Parent Company: Amazon
- App Download (iOS)
- App Download (Android)
What is AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. (source)
AWS Revenue Totals
AWS revenue (annual)
- 2020: $45.370 billion
- 2019: $35.026 billion
- 2018: $25.655 billion
- 2017: $17.459 billion
- 2016: $12 billion
- 2015: $7.9 billion
- 2014: $5 billion (estimated)
AWS growth year-over-year:
Amazon AWS revenue (quarterly):
- Q1 2015: $1.5 billion
- Q2 2015: $1.8 billion
- Q3 2015: $2.1 billion
- Q4 2015: $2.4 billion
- Q1 2016: $2.5 billion
- Q2 2016: $2.9 billion
- Q3 2016: $3.2 billion
- Q4 2016: $3.5 billion
- Q1 2017: $3.6 billion
- Q2 2017: $4.1 billion
- Q1 2017: $4.6 billion
- Q4 2017: $5.1 billion
- Q1 2018: $5.1 billion
- Q2 2018: $5.4 billion
- Q3 2018: $6.6 billion
- Q4 2018: $7.4 billion
- Q1 2019: $7.7 billion
- Q2 2019: $8.381 billion
- Q3 2019: $8.995 billion
- Q4 2019: $9.954 billion
- Q1 2020: $10.219 billion
- Q2 2020: $10.808 billion
- Q3 2020: $11.601 billion
- Q4 2020: $12.742 billion
AWS annual run rate:
Last updated 4/25/19
Estimated growth in revenue YOY for Amazon Web Services (2013-2014):
Last updated 7/16/14
Additional AWS Statistics
Number of countries that Amazon Web Services has customers in:
Last updated 3/14/16
Number of Amazon Web Services Partner Network members:
Last updated 1/30/14
Number of Amazon Web Services 3rd party software products:
Last updated 11/12/14
Number of infrastructure regions AWS has globally:
Last updated 2/1/18
Total number of databases that have been migrated to AWS:
Last updated 2/1/18
Number of AWS Availability Zones:
52
Last updated 2/1/18
Amount of time that AWS customers run AWS Marketplace software monthly:
Last updated 11/12/14
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