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technology and computing web hostingHow much does Amazon earn from AWS?
Similarly, you may ask, how much of Amazon's profit is from AWS?
AWS competes with Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Azure,and Alphabet Inc.'s (GOOGL) Google Cloud. Amazon's annualreport said AWS booked almost $26 billion in 2018 sales, a47% increase from the year prior, and generated nearly $7.3 billionin operating income - more than half the company's operatingincome.
Moreover, does Amazon make more money from AWS?
Net sales increased 31 percent to $232.9 billion,compared with $177.9 billion in 2017. AWS nudged outAmazon's North American e-commerce unit to deliver themost operating income for 2018. AWS had operating incomeof $7.3 billion for 2018 to Amazon North America's $7.27billion.
AWS and Amazon's core businesses areconnected by infrastructure, but they don't have strongshared interests. Amazon is AWS's largest customer,but it could simply retain a preferred customer status after thespinoff.