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Re:What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%? by mxscho on Sunday December 22, 2019 @07:06PM (#21860549)
> 5% of all websites (The actual numbers are 1-3% less)

Source?

It's not even clear whether this means

- 5% of servers running

- 5% of registered domains

- 5% of user traffic

Re:What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%? by bransonf on Sunday December 22, 2019 @08:15PM (#21860808)
Sorry, that was poorly presented on my part. I believe the most recent estimate was around 2-3% of all internet traffic was served on a web server being hosted by Amazon.

I can’t find the original source, but this Quora post[0] and included primary source[1] suggest the same.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-estimated-percent-of-inter...

[1] https://www.netcraft.com/internet-data-mining/million-busies...

Re:What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%? by latch on Sunday December 22, 2019 @08:45PM (#21860924)
I'd be curious what type of insight they're getting from markets such as China, India, Russia, South America and SEA. I couldn't find much on their site. Their estimate could still be relevant for their target market, while being completely off globally.

Also, only looking at public internet traffic is a mistake since this isn't solely where AWS is trying to compete. You need to consider _all_ hosting, including government, intranet and other private players, which AWS does attempt to capture.

Re:What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%? by bransonf on Sunday December 22, 2019 @09:51PM (#21861172)
This is a really good point and really reinforces the take that Amazon isn’t as big as many of us believe.