Amazon Web Services’ growth unrelenting

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This doesn't even account for sites that are using AWS but fronting with a CDN (like reddit, for example).

I wonder what percentage of AWS traffic is from Netflix. Single digits?

A lot less than you would think. The majority of Netflix outbound traffic (the movie bits) comes from the CDN -- AWS is only the control plane.

AWS has gained huge popularity I think on two counts: one is where GoDaddy suffered quite a backlash in the media. And two, it has launched fantastic services for a whole host of entrepreneurs who get the service at no cost for the first year.

That could potentially have fueled the use of the service, but lower revenues.

It may make sense to see the revenues a year post these number to actually assess the contribution of AWS to Amazon's overall revenues.

I tend to doubt folks who were using GoDaddy's hosting went to AWS.

Agreed. I think AWS tapped into an untapped market - full blown virtual machines (servers) at low and pay-by-the-hour cost.

There will always be a market for shared hosting - GoDaddy likely lost out to the growing numbers of shared hosting providers.

I would have guessed that a slightly larger percentage of Amazon's revenue is from AWS (according to the article, it's about 5%).

Amazon makes big revenue as a retailer, even though it's low margin. AWS is all margin, though. That ~5% is worth 3.8bn in 2013 and will hit 7% ($8.8bn) in 2015.

http://www.zdnet.com/amazons-aws-3-8-billion-revenue-in-2013...

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