Amazon Web Services’ growth unrelenting

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by ca98am79 • 13 years ago

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I would have guessed that a slightly larger percentage of Amazon's revenue is from AWS (according to the article, it's about 5%).

chaz• 13 years ago

Amazon makes big revenue as a retailer, even though it's low margin. AWS is all margin, though. That ~5% is worth 3.8bn in 2013 and will hit 7% ($8.8bn) in 2015.

http://www.zdnet.com/amazons-aws-3-8-billion-revenue-in-2013...

jedberg2• 13 years ago

This doesn't even account for sites that are using AWS but fronting with a CDN (like reddit, for example).

therealarmen• 13 years ago

I wonder what percentage of AWS traffic is from Netflix. Single digits?

jedberg2• 13 years ago

A lot less than you would think. The majority of Netflix outbound traffic (the movie bits) comes from the CDN -- AWS is only the control plane.

rahulvarshneya• 13 years ago

AWS has gained huge popularity I think on two counts: one is where GoDaddy suffered quite a backlash in the media. And two, it has launched fantastic services for a whole host of entrepreneurs who get the service at no cost for the first year.

That could potentially have fueled the use of the service, but lower revenues.

It may make sense to see the revenues a year post these number to actually assess the contribution of AWS to Amazon's overall revenues.

ceejayoz• 13 years ago

I tend to doubt folks who were using GoDaddy's hosting went to AWS.

samspenc• 13 years ago

Agreed. I think AWS tapped into an untapped market - full blown virtual machines (servers) at low and pay-by-the-hour cost.

There will always be a market for shared hosting - GoDaddy likely lost out to the growing numbers of shared hosting providers.

Amazon Web Services’ growth unrelenting

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