News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. Parent comment

Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by systemvoltage on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:26PM (#26785953)
Could you please shed some light on how many people would be behind a product like AWS Lambda or AWS CloudWatch?

As an outsider, I would guess huge swaths of developers with a massive hierarchy. Buildings full of folks working on AWS services. I have no idea and extremely curious.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by pas on Monday April 12, 2021 @08:20PM (#26786755)
AWS Lambda team 3 years ago on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/7a5anz/we_are_the_aws_...

at least 12 people. Of course they are in turn supported by many different teams, which also consist of who knows how many people.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by amzn-throw on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @02:16AM (#26788667)
Usually services like this start with one 2-pizza team.

Then, as the scale increases, and the number of features increase, so do the number of teams.

Lambda and CloudWatch are both a couple hundred people which wouldn't be surprising once you consider all the things that they do.

But I would venture a good half of all AWS services are built and run by one team of 10-12.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by shepherdjerred on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:12PM (#26786312)
Hundreds. Each team owns a different part of the service.
[ Parent | on HN ]