Amazon is releasing the balance of AWS business for the first time, cloud business reveals "profitable" situation

Amazon announced the quarterly financial results of Q1 (January to March) in 2015 on April 23, 2015, but for the first time cloud business "AWSThe balance of income was announced. And, AWS has revealed a surprising fact that it has increased sales by 49% compared to the same period last year and contributes greatly to Amazon's earnings.

Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales up 15% to $ 22.72 Billion | Business Wire
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150423006485/en/Amazon.com-Announces-Quarter-Sales-15-22.72-Billion

Amazon Finally Discloses Cloud Services Sales, Showing 49% Jump - Bloomberg Business
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-23/amazon-finally-discloses-cloud-services-sales-showing-49-jump

According to the revenue report released by Amazon, the total sales of Q1 in 2015 was 22.7 17 billion dollars (about 2.7 trillion yen), a 1.5% increase from the same period last year. Continuing a huge amount of investment Amazon's appearance as usual in the deficit settlement of accounts, non-GAAPOn a base basis, the loss was 12 cents per share (about 14 yen).

Among the overall good business of Amazon, the first time in this financial report, the income and expenditure of cloud service AWS was clarified. According to it, the sales of AWS in Q1 in 2015 was $ 1,566 million (about 187 billion yen), 49% up from 49 million dollars (about 125 billion yen) in the same period last year Thing.


CEO Jeff Bezos said about AWS "It's $ 5 billion (about 600 billion yen) business, but it will grow more rapidly in the future". If we simply quadruple this revenue and expenditure report quarterly on a quarterly basis, the AWS business will be a business of $ 6 billion a year (about 720 billion yen), the Bezos CEO's "$ 5 billion scale" is a modest remark It is likely to become. According to Karl Kersted, Deutsche Bank, "AWS is more than 10 times larger than Microsoft's cloud business."

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Amazon's announcement of AWS's revenue is $ 265 million (about 32 billion yen) in Q1 2015, so Amazon has a dollar box business called AWS in addition to the stone net shopping division It became clear. In addition, after Amazon announcement of financial results, the stock price by overtime transaction has been increased by more than 5%.