Amazon’s AWS Business is a $7.3 Billion Operation, More than 1 Million Enterprise Customers

Written by DH Kass 1
October 8, 2015

Based on its growth numbers, it looks like Amazon’s Web Services price cutting strategy is working.

Based on its growth numbers, it looks like Amazon’s (AMZN) Web Services (AWS) price-cutting strategy is working. At the company’s Re: Invent conference in Las Vegas Andy Jassy, AWS senior vice president, presented a few eye-popping numbers on its cloud services operation.

Here’s a few of the pertinent figures:

AWS is now a $7.3 billion business, generating a $1 billion run rate on its database business alone
AWS has more than 1 million active enterprise customers
AWS has grown 81 percent year-over-year, which Jassy said made it the fast growing among cloud-based storage providers, processing and database services
AWS EC2 business grew 95 percent, S3 was up 120 percent and database services jumped 127 percent
About 800 software vendors integrate with AWS in 25 different categories

In Q2, Amazon reported AWS net income of $391 million on $1.8 billion in sales.

At the conference, AWS emphasized growing its partner base to move further into the enterprise, Talkin’Cloud reported.

Accordingly, AWS, which intends to continue allocating resources to partner enablement, kicked off three new AWS Partner Network (APN) Competencies in DevOps, cloud migration, and the Internet of Things(IoT) with more announcements to come, the report said.

The new DevOps competency program launched with 47 technology partners and consulting partners including Chef, CloudBees, 2ndWatch, and others, the report said.

At the event, IT consulting firm Accenture, which recently bought Cloud Sherpas, said it has kicked off a new AWS Business Group. And, at the keynote, AWS announced QuickSight, Kinesis Firehose, Snowball, the Database Migration Service, the Schema Conversion Tool, the MariaDB database engine, Config Rules, and Inspector.

AWS offers IT infrastructure services to businesses as web services. Its products and solutions include cloud computing, compute, networking, storage and content delivery, databases, analytics, application services, deployment and management, mobile services, applications, AWS marketplace software, startups, enterprises, partners, government and education.