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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by toomuchtodo on Monday March 16, 2015 @02:55PM (#9213481)
AWS is hugely profitable:

https://gigaom.com/2013/01/07/amazons-cloud-is-bigger-more-p...

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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by rogerbinns on Monday March 16, 2015 @04:30PM (#9214180)
A Motley Fool article claims that while AWS is successful, it isn't profitable, mainly because of the accounting behind capital expenditure. Last year Amazon spent more in interest than their entire operating income. http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/02/04/amazon-just...
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