Comment by systemvoltage
4 years ago
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.
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.
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.
Hundreds. Each team owns a different part of the service.