Last week I checked the (primary) AWS blog. I went through all the articles from the welcome post in 2004 until the very last one. I did not read all of them. I just collected some data using Python and a Bash script.
Random Numbers
Let’s start with some random numbers. There are until today 3925 posts.
The year with the most posts? 2015 with 320 posts, almost one a day. AWS then realized more “secondary” blogs were needed. You now have more content to read, but spread across multiple blogs.
Top month? Well, November of course, 571 posts. The re:Invent effect, with significant spikes in the last few years. Quieter month? February with 229.
I plot the month-by-month over the years we can see how the role of the primary AWS blog has shifted and how it is impacted by announcements in Vegas.
The top day ever? A re:Invent day (December 3rd, 2019) with 27 articles.
Top author? Jeff Barr , of course. He appears as the author of 80% of the…