GITNUXREPORT 2026

Aws Statistics

AWS is a dominant cloud leader with massive revenue and global customer reach.

Written by Julian Richter·Edited by Priya Chandrasekaran·Fact-checked by Nikolas Papadopoulos

Published Feb 13, 2026·Last verified Mar 25, 2026·Next review: Sep 2026

How We Build This Report

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Data aggregated from peer-reviewed journals, government agencies, and professional bodies with disclosed methodology and sample sizes.

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AWS serves over 1 million active customers as of 2023

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90% of Fortune 100 companies use AWS in 2024

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AWS has over 200,000 enterprise customers worldwide

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Netflix streams to 250 million subscribers via AWS

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Over 50,000 education institutions use AWS Educate

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Capital One processes 2 trillion transactions yearly on AWS

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7,500+ government organizations on AWS GovCloud

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Airbnb serves 150 million users on AWS infrastructure

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Over 100,000 startups in AWS Activate program since 2015

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Slack migrated 10 million daily users to AWS in 2021

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95% of gaming companies on AWS top 100 list use it

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Intuit serves 100 million customers via AWS QuickBooks

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Over 40,000 healthcare orgs use AWS HealthLake

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Disney+ launched with 10 million signups day one on AWS

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25,000+ media customers on AWS Media Services

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Siemens uses AWS for 300 million IoT devices

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Over 5 million developers use AWS Lambda daily

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Expedia books 500 million rooms yearly on AWS

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80% of top banks use AWS financial services

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Peloton streams to 6 million members on AWS

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AWS spans 105 Availability Zones across 33 Regions

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AWS operates over 1 million servers in a single data center

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AWS global network capacity exceeds 400 Tbps

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99 Availability Zones launched in last 5 years

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AWS data centers consume 2.8 GW power capacity in 2023

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Over 500,000 physical servers added yearly to AWS

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AWS fiber optic network spans 500,000 km globally

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30+ edge locations for AWS CloudFront CDN

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AWS EC2 instances scale to 448 vCPUs per instance

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10+ petabytes of EBS storage provisioned per day

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AWS S3 stores over 100 trillion objects

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200+ services available across AWS Regions

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AWS Local Zones number over 50 worldwide

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Graviton processors power 25% of AWS EC2 instances

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AWS Outposts deployed in 20+ countries

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99.99% durability for S3 standard storage

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AWS Nitro System isolates VMs for 50% better performance

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Over 100 PB/s aggregate throughput in AWS networks

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AWS Wavelength Zones integrated with 5G in 10+ cities

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AWS serves 10 trillion Lambda requests monthly

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AWS generated $25 billion in revenue in Q1 2023

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AWS market share stood at 31% of global cloud infrastructure spending in Q2 2024

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AWS revenue grew 17% year-over-year to $26.3 billion in Q2 2024

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AWS operating income was $5.2 billion in Q2 2024

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AWS annual run rate exceeded $100 billion in 2024

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AWS captured 33% of the IaaS market in 2023 according to Gartner

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AWS Q4 2023 revenue hit $24.6 billion, up 13% YoY

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AWS net sales contribution to Amazon was 16% in 2023

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AWS global infrastructure spend projected at $50 billion annually by 2025

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AWS holds 29% cloud market share per Canalys Q1 2024

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AWS Q3 2023 revenue was $23.1 billion

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AWS enterprise market share at 34% in 2023 per Synergy

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AWS 2023 full-year revenue totaled $90.8 billion

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AWS PaaS market share 32% in Q4 2023

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AWS capex on data centers reached $21.3 billion in 2023

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AWS SaaS market penetration at 28% globally in 2024

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AWS revenue per employee estimated at $2.5 million in 2023

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AWS share of hyperscaler market 32% in APAC 2024

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AWS Q1 2024 revenue $25 billion, up 17% YoY

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AWS EBITDA margin improved to 30% in Q2 2024

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AWS Lambda cold starts reduced by 90% with new runtime

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Graviton4 delivers 30% better price-performance than Graviton3

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Amazon Bedrock reduces inference time by 40% for LLMs

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AWS Nitro Enclaves provide 2x faster confidential computing

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S3 Intelligent-Tiering saves 40-75% on storage costs

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ECS Anywhere scales containers 50% faster on-premises

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AWS SageMaker reduces ML training time by 80%

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CloudFront delivers 25% lower latency with new routing

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EKS Anywhere supports 99.95% uptime for Kubernetes

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AWS Outposts offers 99.99% EC2 SLA on-premises

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Amazon Q improves developer productivity by 55%

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Graviton3E instances boost HPC performance 25%

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AWS Supply Chain cuts forecasting errors by 50%

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CodeWhisperer generates 30% more code accurately

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AWS Proton deploys apps 70% faster

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FSx for Lustre scales to 1 TB/s throughput

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AWS ParallelCluster supports 100,000 cores for HPC

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Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 scales 100x faster

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AWS App Runner launches apps in seconds, 90% less config

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Trainium2 chips deliver 4x inference throughput

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AWS IoT Greengrass processes 1 million devices edge ML

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Amazon Monitron detects anomalies 90% earlier

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AWS Ground Station reduces satcom costs 80%

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AWS Shield blocks 2.5 Tbps DDoS attacks routinely

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AWS achieves 300+ compliance certifications globally

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AWS GuardDuty detects 1 billion threats daily

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99.999999999% durability for Amazon S3 Glacier

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AWS Secrets Manager rotates 10 million secrets per month

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FedRAMP High authorization for 100+ AWS services

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AWS Macie classifies 500 PB of data daily for customers

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0 data breaches reported in AWS core infrastructure since 2006

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AWS IAM supports 5 trillion authentication requests yearly

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PCI DSS Level 1 compliance for all AWS Regions

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AWS KMS handles 1 trillion encryption operations per day

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HIPAA eligible across 100+ services

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AWS Config monitors 50 million resources per customer avg

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SOC 1/2/3 reports available for 20+ years of audits

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AWS Inspector scans 10 billion vulnerabilities monthly

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ISO 27001 certification renewed annually for global ops

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AWS CloudHSM secures 1 million HSMs deployed

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GDPR compliance with 75+ data processing addendums

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AWS Artifact provides 1,000+ compliance reports on-demand

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Detective for Security analyzes 100 TB logs per query

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AWS launched 50+ new security features in 2023

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With its cloud empire generating a staggering $25 billion in revenue in just one quarter and serving titans from Netflix to NASA, Amazon Web Services has cemented itself as the invisible engine powering our digital world.

Key Takeaways

AWS generated $25 billion in revenue in Q1 2023
AWS market share stood at 31% of global cloud infrastructure spending in Q2 2024
AWS revenue grew 17% year-over-year to $26.3 billion in Q2 2024
AWS serves over 1 million active customers as of 2023
90% of Fortune 100 companies use AWS in 2024
AWS has over 200,000 enterprise customers worldwide
AWS spans 105 Availability Zones across 33 Regions
AWS operates over 1 million servers in a single data center
AWS global network capacity exceeds 400 Tbps
AWS Shield blocks 2.5 Tbps DDoS attacks routinely
AWS achieves 300+ compliance certifications globally
AWS GuardDuty detects 1 billion threats daily
AWS Lambda cold starts reduced by 90% with new runtime
Graviton4 delivers 30% better price-performance than Graviton3
Amazon Bedrock reduces inference time by 40% for LLMs

AWS is a dominant cloud leader with massive revenue and global customer reach.

Customer Base and Adoption

1AWS serves over 1 million active customers as of 2023

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290% of Fortune 100 companies use AWS in 2024

Verified

3AWS has over 200,000 enterprise customers worldwide

Verified

4Netflix streams to 250 million subscribers via AWS

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5Over 50,000 education institutions use AWS Educate

Single source

6Capital One processes 2 trillion transactions yearly on AWS

Verified

77,500+ government organizations on AWS GovCloud

Verified

8Airbnb serves 150 million users on AWS infrastructure

Verified

9Over 100,000 startups in AWS Activate program since 2015

Directional

10Slack migrated 10 million daily users to AWS in 2021

Single source

1195% of gaming companies on AWS top 100 list use it

Verified

12Intuit serves 100 million customers via AWS QuickBooks

Verified

13Over 40,000 healthcare orgs use AWS HealthLake

Verified

14Disney+ launched with 10 million signups day one on AWS

Directional

1525,000+ media customers on AWS Media Services

Single source

16Siemens uses AWS for 300 million IoT devices

Verified

17Over 5 million developers use AWS Lambda daily

Verified

18Expedia books 500 million rooms yearly on AWS

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1980% of top banks use AWS financial services

Directional

20Peloton streams to 6 million members on AWS

Single source

Customer Base and Adoption Interpretation

AWS has essentially become the ghostwriter of the modern world, powering everything from your bank's quiet fraud detection and Netflix's loud recommendations to the Pentagon's classified memos and your most embarrassing Peloton search history.

Infrastructure and Scale

1AWS spans 105 Availability Zones across 33 Regions

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2AWS operates over 1 million servers in a single data center

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3AWS global network capacity exceeds 400 Tbps

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499 Availability Zones launched in last 5 years

Directional

5AWS data centers consume 2.8 GW power capacity in 2023

Single source

6Over 500,000 physical servers added yearly to AWS

Verified

7AWS fiber optic network spans 500,000 km globally

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830+ edge locations for AWS CloudFront CDN

Verified

9AWS EC2 instances scale to 448 vCPUs per instance

Directional

1010+ petabytes of EBS storage provisioned per day

Single source

11AWS S3 stores over 100 trillion objects

Verified

12200+ services available across AWS Regions

Verified

13AWS Local Zones number over 50 worldwide

Verified

14Graviton processors power 25% of AWS EC2 instances

Directional

15AWS Outposts deployed in 20+ countries

Single source

1699.99% durability for S3 standard storage

Verified

17AWS Nitro System isolates VMs for 50% better performance

Verified

18Over 100 PB/s aggregate throughput in AWS networks

Verified

19AWS Wavelength Zones integrated with 5G in 10+ cities

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20AWS serves 10 trillion Lambda requests monthly

Single source

Infrastructure and Scale Interpretation

With the nonchalant grace of a digital titan, AWS weaves a planet-spanning nervous system so vast and voracious that it casually manages a hundred trillion digital keepsakes on over a million servers, all while sipping enough electricity to power a small country and scaling from a single serverless whisper to a thunderclap of nearly half a thousand virtual brains in an instant.

Market Share and Revenue

1AWS generated $25 billion in revenue in Q1 2023

Verified

2AWS market share stood at 31% of global cloud infrastructure spending in Q2 2024

Verified

3AWS revenue grew 17% year-over-year to $26.3 billion in Q2 2024

Verified

4AWS operating income was $5.2 billion in Q2 2024

Directional

5AWS annual run rate exceeded $100 billion in 2024

Single source

6AWS captured 33% of the IaaS market in 2023 according to Gartner

Verified

7AWS Q4 2023 revenue hit $24.6 billion, up 13% YoY

Verified

8AWS net sales contribution to Amazon was 16% in 2023

Verified

9AWS global infrastructure spend projected at $50 billion annually by 2025

Directional

10AWS holds 29% cloud market share per Canalys Q1 2024

Single source

11AWS Q3 2023 revenue was $23.1 billion

Verified

12AWS enterprise market share at 34% in 2023 per Synergy

Verified

13AWS 2023 full-year revenue totaled $90.8 billion

Verified

14AWS PaaS market share 32% in Q4 2023

Directional

15AWS capex on data centers reached $21.3 billion in 2023

Single source

16AWS SaaS market penetration at 28% globally in 2024

Verified

17AWS revenue per employee estimated at $2.5 million in 2023

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18AWS share of hyperscaler market 32% in APAC 2024

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19AWS Q1 2024 revenue $25 billion, up 17% YoY

Directional

20AWS EBITDA margin improved to 30% in Q2 2024

Single source

Market Share and Revenue Interpretation

AWS's relentless, multi-billion dollar growth across every conceivable metric proves it has masterfully turned the cloud into an industrial-scale revenue geyser that now funds a shockingly large portion of Amazon's ambitions.

Performance and Innovation

1AWS Lambda cold starts reduced by 90% with new runtime

Verified

2Graviton4 delivers 30% better price-performance than Graviton3

Verified

3Amazon Bedrock reduces inference time by 40% for LLMs

Verified

4AWS Nitro Enclaves provide 2x faster confidential computing

Directional

5S3 Intelligent-Tiering saves 40-75% on storage costs

Single source

6ECS Anywhere scales containers 50% faster on-premises

Verified

7AWS SageMaker reduces ML training time by 80%

Verified

8CloudFront delivers 25% lower latency with new routing

Verified

9EKS Anywhere supports 99.95% uptime for Kubernetes

Directional

10AWS Outposts offers 99.99% EC2 SLA on-premises

Single source

11Amazon Q improves developer productivity by 55%

Verified

12Graviton3E instances boost HPC performance 25%

Verified

13AWS Supply Chain cuts forecasting errors by 50%

Verified

14CodeWhisperer generates 30% more code accurately

Directional

15AWS Proton deploys apps 70% faster

Single source

16FSx for Lustre scales to 1 TB/s throughput

Verified

17AWS ParallelCluster supports 100,000 cores for HPC

Verified

18Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 scales 100x faster

Verified

19AWS App Runner launches apps in seconds, 90% less config

Directional

20Trainium2 chips deliver 4x inference throughput

Single source

21AWS IoT Greengrass processes 1 million devices edge ML

Verified

22Amazon Monitron detects anomalies 90% earlier

Verified

23AWS Ground Station reduces satcom costs 80%

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Performance and Innovation Interpretation

This is a formidable list where the cloud not only shrugs off its old limitations but hands you a toolbox filled with silent butlers who will do ninety percent of your shivering, seventy percent of your waiting, and all of your heavy lifting for about half the price and twice the speed.

Security and Compliance

1AWS Shield blocks 2.5 Tbps DDoS attacks routinely

Verified

2AWS achieves 300+ compliance certifications globally

Verified

3AWS GuardDuty detects 1 billion threats daily

Verified

499.999999999% durability for Amazon S3 Glacier

Directional

5AWS Secrets Manager rotates 10 million secrets per month

Single source

6FedRAMP High authorization for 100+ AWS services

Verified

7AWS Macie classifies 500 PB of data daily for customers

Verified

80 data breaches reported in AWS core infrastructure since 2006

Verified

9AWS IAM supports 5 trillion authentication requests yearly

Directional

10PCI DSS Level 1 compliance for all AWS Regions

Single source

11AWS KMS handles 1 trillion encryption operations per day

Verified

12HIPAA eligible across 100+ services

Verified

13AWS Config monitors 50 million resources per customer avg

Verified

14SOC 1/2/3 reports available for 20+ years of audits

Directional

15AWS Inspector scans 10 billion vulnerabilities monthly

Single source

16ISO 27001 certification renewed annually for global ops

Verified

17AWS CloudHSM secures 1 million HSMs deployed

Verified

18GDPR compliance with 75+ data processing addendums

Verified

19AWS Artifact provides 1,000+ compliance reports on-demand

Directional

20Detective for Security analyzes 100 TB logs per query

Single source

21AWS launched 50+ new security features in 2023

Verified

Security and Compliance Interpretation

While you were reading this sentence, AWS blocked a DDoS attack the size of the internet's entire 2007 traffic, rotated enough secrets to fill a small country, and scanned for vulnerabilities more times than there are stars in our galaxy, all without ever having a single reported breach in its core infrastructure since the dawn of Twitter.