> it's worth taking a step back to ask why IAM needs to serve 400M API calls every second when AWS has between one and two million active users The thought pro

> it's worth taking a step back to ask why IAM needs to serve 400M API calls every second when AWS has between one and two million active users The thought process that would lead to such a statement intrigues me. IAM activity scales with total aggregate activity across all workloads that run on AWS, which I would assume scales with the total activity of the billions of people who interact with AWS directly or indirectly each day.