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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by robinduckett on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:55PM (#13562199)
What are the stats on revenue from retail vs revenue from AWS? I doubt they'd release those numbers but surely there must be an estimate
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by ghurtado on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:29PM (#13562500)
There's a third arm that is actually bigger than retail in revenue: Merchant Services (Marketplace)
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by sib on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:03PM (#13562264)
AWS revenue last quarter was $3.56B (publicly stated). Total revenue, $43.7B.
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by kbenson on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:18PM (#13562944)
AWS provides much better margins than some of their other businesses though, to the point where AWS profit can actually be more than the overall company profit (it allows them to run other divisions at a loss strategically). That doesn't seem to be that case in the most recent filing[1], but it did beat out the North American division.

1: http://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-posts-mixed-q4-results-a...

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