[chatmasta]

This would be an interesting dataset to use for trading decisions (or sell to hedge funds).

But I wonder how much of their infrastructure is publicly mappable, compared to just the part of it that's exposed to the edge. (Can you map some internal instances in a VPC?)

That said, I'm sure there are a lot of side channels in the provisioning APIs, certificate logs, and other metadata that could paint a decently accurate picture of cloud sizes. It might not cover everything but it'd be good enough to track and measure a gradual expansion of capacity.

[virtuallynathan]

I’m not sure mapping VPCs is super helpful - the physical infra is fairly distinct.

AWS has also disclosed 20 million Nitro adapters have been deployed, so you can do some backwards napkin math from that.