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Re:Amazon Beats Analyst Expectations with $25.4B in Sales by sugarhight on Thursday October 22, 2015 @04:45PM (#10434916)
Some interesting tidbits I read:

* AWS grew 78% from t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶v̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶q̶u̶a̶r̶t̶e̶r̶ the year-ago quarter!

* GE moving workload to AWS, downsizing from 34 data centers to 4.

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Re:Amazon Beats Analyst Expectations with $25.4B in Sales by ojbyrne on Thursday October 22, 2015 @04:59PM (#10435019)
I think you misread the AWS growth paragraph, it is 78% year over year:

"Amazon reported net AWS sales of $2.085 billion, up from $1.169 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. That’s a 78% jump in net sales for the company’s AWS business, which it started breaking out earlier this year. It’s even a big quarter-over-quarter jump: Amazon $1.82 billion in net sales for AWS in the previous quarter. It’s reporting $5.5 billion in AWS net sales for the first nine months of the year, compared to $3.2 billion in the first nine months of the year prior."

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Re:Amazon Beats Analyst Expectations with $25.4B in Sales by dkyc on Thursday October 22, 2015 @05:00PM (#10435026)
You got that first one wrong, the 78% figure was yearly growth. AWS grew roughly 14% quarter-over-quarter:

"Amazon reported net AWS sales of $2.085 billion, up from $1.169 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. That’s a 78% jump in net sales for the company’s AWS business, which it started breaking out earlier this year. It’s even a big quarter-over-quarter jump: Amazon $1.82 billion in net sales for AWS in the previous quarter."

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