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People searching for something is reflective of what people search for, in some cases for products it's reflective of popularity but, I would argue in this case there's a good chance people are searching for Excel more for tips/troubleshooting/how to, than purchase intention.

If you look at a range of wide range business functions, opening and editing text documents is more prevalent than using spreadsheets.

Using large data stored in S3?

Make sure you are fetching it via a S3 endpoint in your VPC instead of via public HTTP. You are paying for an (expensive) egress cost you don’t need to be paying for.

The probably falls in the general category of a Good Thing™ for employees and people developing B2B applications since internal systems are more easily accessible but, this will be a gut check/squeaky bum time for traditional on-premises B2B vendors like PeopleSoft/SAP/IBM and the like. The corporate firewall has always been a bastion of security they have been able to hide their applications behind. As the concept of a corporate firewall begins to fade their security risk increases and previously non-worrisome attack vectors become serious problems for them.