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By April 2016, it was contributing 9% of Amazon’s total revenue and, remarkably, over half of the company’s total operating income. In early 2016, AWS was called the fastest-growing enterprise
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
AWS also allowed for faster integration of systems than did some alternatives.
Ray Velez • Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology
Amazon the best-known and largest cloud provider. Estimates put its cloud operation at $6 billion.
Ray Velez • Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology
The second? In 2006, they had the idea that there would be advantages to hosting other people's applications and AWS was born. A few years later in 2008, the entire market for cloud computing was a little north of $5B. Today? AWS alone is generating over $80B in revenue.
Kyle Harrison • Markets, Markets, and Markets
AWS speeds up application development and deployment, and in some cases reduced overall developer hours needed by as much as 80 percent.
Ray Velez • Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology
Using Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce (EMR), which we’ll discuss more later in this chapter, we’ve been able to get processing jobs that used to take three weeks down to just 8 hours. And