I believe you are looking for the stats tag
{total_guests} I believe is what you are looking for.
Also, standard procedure for web servers is to maintain a log of requests. (I know where the apache2 log file resides)
But, If you were to filter the log with a regular expression to match only request to a certain URL, then by user agent IP address, that would give you a somewhat accurate count.
Did you say you are working on AWS?
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