[LorenPechtel]

Disagree. It's not a small office worth of staff. You're not counting all the jobs involved in providing the data centers.

[siva7]

Those aren't employees of instagram or whatsapp

[SamBam]

But they're part of its stack. It wouldn't exist without it. And vice versa, AWS wouldn't have as many employees without companies like Instagram.

Kodak required so many because it owned nearly the whole stack.

But that said, we can't just add the number of AWS employees to the number of Instagram employees, because we have to prorate it by the total number of companies that use AWS (or whatever).