Amazon, Microsoft and Google’s financial results give an intriguing state of the cloud
April 28, 2017
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne
Analysis April 27 saw Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft release its most recent financial results, with cloud at the heart of their success. But this doesn’t quite tell the full story. Amazon reported net sales for Amazon Web Services (AWS) hit $3.66 billion (£2.83bn), up 42% from a year before, but up only 3.5% from the previous quarter’s $3.54bn.
Amazon’s cloud computing arm secured 12 bullet points of its own in the 32-point strong ‘highlights’ of the quarter, with particular reference to the general availability of Amazon Lex, the technology which powers Alexa, as well as Connect, the company’s cloud-based contact centre service. AWS also said that customers had migrated more than 23,000 databases using its database migration service since it had become available in 2016…
In the quotes from the press materials, the focus was on growth in India more than anything else, while in the conference call Amazon only spoke about AWS when prodded by analysts, not being able to give updated usage figures…
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