Apple pays over ¥ 3.3 billion a month for Amazon's cloud service AWS

by QuinceMedia

Apple's cloud service 'iCloud' was found to use Google's cloud in 2018, but a new official, Apple is over 3.3 billion yen monthly for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Revealed that they are paying for

Apple spends more than $ 30 million a month on Amazon Web Services
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/apple-spends-more-than-30-million-on-amazon-web-services-a-month.html

Apple spends more than $ 30M per month on Amazon Web Services
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/04/22/apple-spends-more-than-30m-per-month-on-amazon-web-services

It has been a long time ago that Apple used AWS, but the details were not clear. Anonymized people who are 'partners' have announced to CNBC that Apple added $ 30 million per month in the first quarter of 2019 (approximately 3.35 billion yen) That also paid to AWS. This figure shows an increase of more than 10% each year, and it can be seen that Apple's needs are increasing year by year, given that prices of services provided by Amazon have not changed.

In 2018, Apple paid a total of $ 350 million (about 39 billion yen) to Amazon, which is expected to increase to $ 360 million (about 40.2 billion yen) in 2019 It is said that It is said that this amount has put away Pinterest and Lyft, making Apple 'the biggest customer of Amazon'.

As the iPhone market nears saturation, Apple has begun to focus on online services as a source of revenue. Apple unveiled its first non-hardware 'services' category revenue in January 2019: profitability of products like AppleCare, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud , and new news service 'Apple News +' in March Also announced.

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Apple is also investing heavily in infrastructure construction, and announced in January 2018 a five-year plan to invest $ 10 billion in the US data center. Of this amount, $ 4.5 billion (approximately 500 billion yen) will be paid in 2019.

So far, Apple has stated that iCloud uses AWS and Google's cloud for storage, but it's unclear whether it uses AWS for other services or a third-party cloud. However, the February 2019 job offer described as “who is leading and building the larger AWS footprint” also indicates that spending is steadily increasing. In addition, sources have stated that 'Apple has signed a contract in the last few months that it will pay AWS a minimum of $ 1.5 billion over the next five years.'

Note that Apple declined to comment on this, and Amazon did not respond to CNBC's request for comments.