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I don't have any numbers so this is a genuine question: Is a big chunk of AWS revenue from startups? My intuition says most startups have small cloud footprints unless they're dealing with massive scale.

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I'd assume they have small footprints as well, but there's a lot of them. A lot of tiny feet will still make an impact.

Even a lot of large tech companies with insanely complex infrastructure run on AWS. Just talking about EC2 alone, you can see that Netflix, Twitch, LinkedIn, and Facebook run AWS [0]. I am aware that the info is from last year and is a tiny bit outdated (LinkedIn is migrating to Azure; FB doesn't use AWS for everything they do; etc.), but the general sentiment still shows that even tech giants tend to resort to using outside cloud providers.

0. https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-top-10-Amazon-AWS-customer...

Sure, I wasn't arguing that they don't, I was just saying that even though startups tend to have small footprints, the sheer amount of them makes them a large segment. Similarly to how no consumer has as close to as many cars UPS does but the whole delivery industry is dwarfed by the amount of cars consumers in total have.

Look at Lyft's S-1. They're spending $100 million per year on AWS.

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