Have gotten into the habit of making annual peering requests to Amazon asking turn up a session on a shared IXP peering.  Once was able to get a peering session turned up, no traffic was ever shifted onto it before we moved out of that carrier hotel a year or so later.  The amazon peering email box does have humans surfing it. 

Over the years a number of network operators have mentioned getting little response from Amazon about peering requests. 

For a company like Amazon they have little reason to do peering with small scale operators.  They already peer with the tier 1’s and assume I will do what I need to balance my bits.  The fancy algorithms they use to balance traffic around does allow them to operate a decent network with fewer staff and less links to the small ISPs.  Just a network operator here, trying to get my bytes across the wire. 

Enjoy your weekend!