Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky speaks on the Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona, Spain, on March 1, 2022.
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Amazon mentioned Thursday that income progress in its cloud-computing unit slowed within the third quarter to 27.5%, lacking analysts’ estimates and notching a brand new low since at the very least 2014, the primary 12 months for which Amazon has disclosed the division’s funds.
Revenue at AWS got here in at $20.5 billion, in accordance with a press release, whereas analysts polled by StreetAccount had anticipated $21.1 billion. Revenue grew 33% within the second quarter. AWS now contributes 16% of Amazon’s complete income.
AWS, which Amazon launched in 2006, managed about 39% of the cloud infrastructure market in 2021, down from 41% in 2020, in accordance with estimates from expertise business researcher Gartner. Google, Huawei and Microsoft all gained share final 12 months, Gartner mentioned. The business has seen regular progress as companies proceed to dump their computing and storage to the cloud.
Operating revenue for the division was $5.4 billion, lower than the StreetAccount consensus of $6.37 billion. Amazon as a complete had $2.53 billion in quarterly working revenue. AWS working margin contracted to 26.3% from 29% within the second quarter.
During the quarter AWS launched its second cloud information middle area within the United Arab Emirates, and it introduced the provision of “serverless” providers that assist builders deploy data-analytics instruments with minimal server-management work.
Amazon has slowed the tempo of hiring in AWS, even because it continues to develop sooner than the corporate’s core e-commerce enterprise. In some components of AWS, Amazon has met its hiring wants, whereas in others it has 1000’s of job openings, an AWS spokesperson instructed CNBC earlier this week. The feedback got here as Google and Microsoft additionally indicated they would scale back headcount progress.
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