AWS sales surge 50 per cent to $2.5bn as cloud demand continues to grow

Dan Worth
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And the rest of Amazon turns a tidy profit, for a change, too

Amazon Web Services (AWS) posted a revenue increase of 56 per cent in the first quarter of 2016 as demand for the cloud hosting platform continued to grow.  Sales of $2.5bn represented a signifi...

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