Corporate & Financials Flashcards
What did you announce in the Q2 2019 quarterly earnings about AWS?
We saw continued strength in Amazon Web Services with revenue of $8.4 billion in Q2, up 37% year-over-year. AWS is a large and rapidly growing business with a nearly $33 billion dollar run rate business.
[We also shared that customers are choosing AWS because it has much broader functionality than any other cloud provider, the largest and most vibrant community of customers and partners, and unmatched maturity, reliability, security, and performance. Notably in Q1, the Volkswagen Group announced a multi-year, global agreement with AWS to build the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud, a cloud-based Industrial digital production platform that will transform the automotive company’s manufacturing and logistics processes and integrate more than 30,000 facilities and 1,500 suppliers and partners in Volkswagen’s global supply chain over time. Volkswagen and AWS’s collaboration will transform auto manufacturing and have a profound impact on efficiency and quality in production throughout Volkswagen’s global supply chain.]
What are the AWS revenues/employee numbers/customer numbers for [Country/Region]?
We don’t break out this information.
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. Any team that’s been part of building a successful service will tell you that they need a large number of sophisticated, large, high standards users to keep pushing the offering and Amazon the retailer has been one of them. Although they’re really just one of several large, helpful, important users of AWS.
