Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year

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Post by vizzah » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 10:25 PM UTC

Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year
blogs.wsj.com

Re: Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year

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Post by gargarplex » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 11:08 PM UTC

I think it will only continue to grow (for the next 5 years).

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Post by Fratercula » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 11:21 PM UTC

now thats some nice growth!

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Post by sker » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 11:26 PM UTC

Interesting that it rose about the same amount as Microsoft's cloud revenue which was around 90%.

Anyone has numbers for Google?

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Post by fnayr » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 11:26 PM UTC

36% of Amazon's operating profit is now from AWS. That's crazy!

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Post by foobar2020 » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 11:29 PM UTC

Fratercula wrote: post #3

now thats some nice growth!

The entire cloud is growing at a similar rate. Comparing market shares seems more reasonable at this point:

https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/aws-market-share-reache...

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Post by artursapek » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 11:31 PM UTC

fnayr wrote: post #5

36% of Amazon's operating profit is now from AWS. That's crazy!

That is crazy. AWS revenue is nothing compared to their total revenue, right?

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Post by molecule » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 11:31 PM UTC

fnayr wrote: post #5

36% of Amazon's operating profit is now from AWS. That's crazy!

profit is the key word: Amazon has historically operated w/ a profit of slim to none.

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...

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Post by afarrell » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 11:32 PM UTC

I wonder how much of that is people forgetting to shut down unused EC2 instances

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Post by dangrossman » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 11:34 PM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #7

fnayr wrote: post #5

36% of Amazon's operating profit is now from AWS. That's crazy!

That is crazy. AWS revenue is nothing compared to their total revenue, right?

AWS contributed $1.82B of the $23.18B in total revenue for the quarter.