Huge download number from Amazon Linux 1 #4278
Description
Regarding pypistats, awscli and its dependencies are the most downloaded packages. I try to investigate who downloads awscli from PyPI so much.
I found a very interesting result. It seems awscli is downloaded from Amazon Linux 1 much.
| date | kernel | downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-14 | 4.14.77-70.59.amzn1.x86_64 | 244827 |
| 2019-05-14 | 4.4.23-31.54.amzn1.x86_64 | 55211 |
| 2019-05-15 | 4.14.77-70.59.amzn1.x86_64 | 168414 |
| 2019-05-15 | 4.14.114-83.126.amzn1.x86_64 | 74483 |
| 2019-05-16 | 4.14.114-83.126.amzn1.x86_64 | 208952 |
| 2019-05-16 | 4.4.23-31.54.amzn1.x86_64 | 63206 |
| 2019-05-17 | 4.14.114-83.126.amzn1.x86_64 | 206870 |
| 2019-05-17 | 4.4.23-31.54.amzn1.x86_64 | 64965 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2019-06-17 | 4.14.114-83.126.amzn1.x86_64 | 211850 |
| 2019-06-17 | 4.4.23-31.54.amzn1.x86_64 | 56809 |
| 2019-06-18 | 4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64 | 167728 |
| 2019-06-18 | 4.14.114-83.126.amzn1.x86_64 | 67278 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2019-06-25 | 4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64 | 234755 |
| 2019-06-25 | 4.4.23-31.54.amzn1.x86_64 | 66793 |
I suspect that this huge number of downloads are from not regular EC2 user because:
- Although Amazon Linux 2 is released a year ago, downloads from Amazon Linux 1 is not decreasing.
- It seems download from Amazon Linux 1 is much higher than download from Ubuntu, while Ubuntu is popular too.
I'm sorry if I am wrong, but could you confirm some service in AWS based on Amazon Linux 1 do pip install awscli from very old pip (6.1.1), about 200k times/day?