AWS now has $79 bn annual sales run rate as top Cloud provider

New Delhi: Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Cloud arm of Amazon, now represent an annualised sales run rate of nearly $79 billion that has made it the leading Cloud provider once again.

AWS reported $19.7 billion net sales in the June quarter, up 33 per cent year over year. The operating income of AWS was $5.7 billion in Q2.

“Right now, we are at 84 availability zones, so that’s 26 geographic regions and we’ve got plans to launch 24 more of those availability zones across eight regions — Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland and the UAE,” said Dave Fildes, Director of Investor Relations, Amazon’s quarter earnings report.