80% growth in AWS sales drive Amazon's 2Q profits

80% growth in AWS sales drive Amazon's 2Q profits:

 Amazon.com, Inc. found that the cloud is indeed a ray of hope, as Amazon Web Services sales increased 80 percent and pushed the company to profitability.
In announcing its results for the second quarter, Amazon said it had a net profit of $ 92 million profit in the second quarter of 2015. The contrast $ 126 million loss of business in the second quarter of 2014.
"The teams have worked hard to Amazon customers," said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. "We disclose Amazon Affairs, Amazon opened Mexico, launched the first day, our ninth Premier deployed Now the city our record Black Friday broke with the first First Day, received 11 Emmy nominations for Transparent, initiated six new controllers children Echo has general availability, skills and voice service team introduces Alexa Alexa open FBA small and light, have continued to double our fastest growing geography - India launched 350 major features and AWS services so far this year ( before the rate last year) he presented AWS educate, and has agreements for new solar and wind farms - enough to overcome our 2016 renewable energy target by 40 percent. "
As for the bottom line, Amazon Web Services was clearly the brightest spot in a long queue. AWS generated sales of $ 1.8 billion in sales in the second quarter of 2015. This represents an increase of 80 percent from $ 1 billion in sales it generated a year ago.
Combined sales of the company rose 20 percent and reached $ 23.18 billion. Which it is compared with $ 19.34 billion in the second quarter of 2014.
Looking ahead, the company said it expects third quarter 2015 net sales will be between $ 23.3 billion to $ 25.5, an increase of between 13 and 24 percent compared to the same period last year.
Amazon help achieve these revenue figures was a very aggressive strategy to implement new products and services this year rated IOC. This includes e-commerce site, streaming video, cloud computing, e-book readers, tablets and phones.
Amazon deployed 350 functions and services of Amazon Web Services alone, the article notes, as well as a training center for organizations using the cloud service called AWS educate.