Corporate & Financials Flashcards
Work Culture + NYT
Having worked here 1.7 years I can tell you that the article in no way represents my experience nor that of my colleagues
Q4 2017 earnings?
Q4 revenue 45% YOY growth reaching $5.1B, now more than $20B run rate
Spin off?
No and we have no plans to do so
High margins?
- Margins fluctuate up and down, we’ve lowered prices on 64 occasions and will continue to do so
- teams have goals around taking cost out of their own cost structure
AWS revenues/employee numbers/customer numbers for country X?
We don’t break out this info.
What services contribute the most AWS revenue?
AWS has a diverse portfolio of services that contribute to revenue growth.
How many employees does AWS have?
Thousands. And I can tell you we are hiring globally across our business as quickly as we can to keep up with the growth that we are experiencing.
How does AWS operate under Amazon.com?
AWS is a separate business inside of Amazon with a different customer base, different services, and a different leadership team. Amazon the retailer is a really large, helpful user of AWS in that they use our services, they’re part of the private betas that we do for our services, they give us a lot of feedback, they have very high standards and they’re not shy about communicating what they like and what they don’t like and what they want.
