[vineyardmike]

Google calls API calls “queries”… because of their history as a search engine. QPS == API calls/per second == Requests per second

That said, I can’t imagine these numbers mean much to anyone after a certain point. It’s not like either company is running a single service handling them. The scale is limited by their budget and access to servers because my traffic shouldn’t impact yours. I feel like the better number is RPS/QPS per table or per logical database or whatever.

[GabeWeiss_]

Yes, but QPS vs. "queries to the API". The difference is the time slice. I should have been more explicit. The key here really is the time function between the numbers. That the AWS blog calls out trillions of API calls isn't relevant because there wasn't a specific time denominator. The 126M QPS is the important stat.