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by grogenaut 2560 days ago
How is Amazon supposed to know actual user numbers? That's app specific.
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biesnecker 2560 days ago
You can't get exact numbers, but for consumer-facing products you can estimate it via unique IPs hitting the load balancers, etc.
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grogenaut 2560 days ago
That would require amazon gathering customer information and possibly GDPR data on the usage of all of it's customers, which is a thing amazon doesn't do, and you don't want your cloud providers doing.
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fouc 2560 days ago
They probably meant page views and such.
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