Cloud and infrastructure
AWS
2.2× since 2022aws.amazon.com · 4,534 posts · 3.0M words · Nov 2004 to Aug 2026
262 of 262 months in that span carried a post. 1 pages refused this crawler. 167 loaded without countable prose.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
2.18
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
1.01
Em dashes counted
5,455
Posts with at least one
85%
Em dashes per post
Monthly4.00
12-month average2.62
AWS, latest month in the corpusBy year
En dashes are counted alongside as a control: if em dashes climb while en dashes hold flat, that is a change in writing style rather than a change in typography.
| Year | Posts | Em dashes | Per 1k words | En per 1k | Share of posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 81 | 226 | 2.68 | 4.56 | 83% |
| 2025 | 217 | 578 | 2.62 | 4.38 | 82% |
| 2024 | 231 | 390 | 1.60 | 5.06 | 86% |
| 2023 | 253 | 339 | 1.38 | 4.58 | 90% |
| 2022 | 198 | 252 | 1.24 | 4.20 | 82% |
| 2021 | 184 | 175 | 0.92 | 2.35 | 81% |
| 2020 | 213 | 179 | 0.85 | 4.01 | 73% |
| 2019 | 207 | 185 | 1.03 | 7.12 | 81% |
| 2018 | 186 | 148 | 1.09 | 9.90 | 69% |
| 2017 | 255 | 199 | 1.02 | 5.12 | 67% |
| 2016 | 295 | 379 | 1.94 | 7.23 | 96% |
| 2015 | 319 | 382 | 2.10 | 17.91 | 100% |
| 2014 | 278 | 320 | 2.46 | 4.87 | 100% |
| 2013 | 271 | 309 | 2.74 | 3.10 | 97% |
| 2012 | 254 | 288 | 2.48 | 3.40 | 94% |
| 2011 | 186 | 261 | 2.92 | 13.38 | 87% |
| 2010 | 182 | 176 | 2.72 | 4.13 | 85% |
| 2009 | 139 | 125 | 2.13 | 3.91 | 78% |
| 2008 | 124 | 138 | 3.20 | 4.63 | 92% |
| 2007 | 152 | 164 | 4.21 | 4.57 | 94% |
| 2006 | 180 | 202 | 5.12 | 6.29 | 91% |
| 2005 | 99 | 37 | 1.19 | 3.89 | 19% |
| 2004 | 30 | 3 | 0.97 | 5.17 | 10% |