Only ~6500 instances up and running on EC2 today? That seems to me to be too low by at least a couple orders of magnitude. Yes, it's utter nonsense. The EC2 in

Only ~6500 instances up and running on EC2 today? That seems to me to be too low by at least a couple orders of magnitude. Yes, it's utter nonsense. The EC2 instance-count is in the millions, not thousands. The author just doesn't know the difference between instance and image.