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>AWS, which could be run by less than 50 engineers)?

What the...

> (Not a software engineer

Ah, yes.

It shows.

50 engineers is probably less than the size of some support teams within Amazon that handle a single large corporate AWS customer.

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This is a peak HN comment (the one you are replying to)! The other day on the Wikipedia thread, there was a data scientist who said he could run a website like Wikipedia all by himself. "How hard it is?". And here we have the same thing for Amazon..

AWS have close to 200 services. If the origina cmmenter js saying each service has 50 folks, it is 10k people. Which sounds about right the company have more than a million people working across all sub organizations. So you can imagine all kinds of work environments

Admittedly I've even heard senior executives rhetorically ask "What do all those people at $LOCATION even do?" At scale, you need a lot to sell, support customers, put marketing programs in place, do developer outreach, test, be on call, etc. etc. But, yeah, you'd think it would obvious that even just talking about straight engineering, you need more than a fraction of a person to develop and enhance each AWS service.

Listen if you can't run 33% of the internet with 50 engineers what are you even doing?

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