Comments on: Amazon Web Services sees $500M revenues, partly due to social games http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/03/amazon-web-services-generating-an-estimated-500m-in-revenue-thanks-in-part-to-growth-of-social-games/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Wed, 22 May 2013 06:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kindle Fire: If each Amazon tablet generates $3/month in digital sales, that’s 20% profit | news technology http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/03/amazon-web-services-generating-an-estimated-500m-in-revenue-thanks-in-part-to-growth-of-social-games/#comment-49360 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:35:18 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=203105#comment-49360 [...] 2012, which could then translate to some $400 million a year in sales. That’s revenue up in the Amazon Web Services area. But it’s not here [...]

]]> By: Kindle Fire: if each Amazon tablet generates $3/month in digital sales, that’s 20% profit | ImpressiveNews http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/03/amazon-web-services-generating-an-estimated-500m-in-revenue-thanks-in-part-to-growth-of-social-games/#comment-49353 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:15:40 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=203105#comment-49353 [...] 2012, which could then translate to some $400 million a year in sales. That’s revenue up in the Amazon Web Services area. But it’s not here [...]

]]> By: Kindle Fire: if each Amazon tablet generates $3/month in digital sales, that’s 20% profit | Social Network Background Check http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/03/amazon-web-services-generating-an-estimated-500m-in-revenue-thanks-in-part-to-growth-of-social-games/#comment-49352 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:48:39 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=203105#comment-49352 [...] which could then translate to some $400 million a year in sales. That’s revenue up in the Amazon Web Services area. But it’s not here [...]

]]> By: Kindle Fire: if each Amazon tablet generates $3/month in digital sales, that’s 20% profit | VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/03/amazon-web-services-generating-an-estimated-500m-in-revenue-thanks-in-part-to-growth-of-social-games/#comment-49351 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:43:46 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=203105#comment-49351 [...] which could then translate to some $400 million a year in sales. That’s revenue up in the Amazon Web Services area. But it’s not here [...]

]]> By: Quora http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/03/amazon-web-services-generating-an-estimated-500m-in-revenue-thanks-in-part-to-growth-of-social-games/#comment-37535 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:01:50 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=203105#comment-37535 Why is Amazon’s price-to-earnings ratio so high?…

I can’t find segmented reports, but I would imagine that AWS revenue is still a lot smaller than their retail division:http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/03/amazon-web-services-generating-an-estimated-500m-in-revenue-thanks-in-part-to-growth-of-social-gam…

]]> By: LEADSExplorer http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/03/amazon-web-services-generating-an-estimated-500m-in-revenue-thanks-in-part-to-growth-of-social-games/#comment-22114 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:13:08 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=203105#comment-22114 We are happy with AWS – it serves us well and many others.AWS enables to offer web services easily.

]]> By: Doron Levari http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/03/amazon-web-services-generating-an-estimated-500m-in-revenue-thanks-in-part-to-growth-of-social-games/#comment-22115 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:49:06 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=203105#comment-22115 Great article. Challenges in the database field… “Developers are relying on the open source MySQL database to scale their businesses to tens of millions of users, yet the developers don’t want to hire an army of system administrators”

]]> By: simonhk http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/03/amazon-web-services-generating-an-estimated-500m-in-revenue-thanks-in-part-to-growth-of-social-games/#comment-22113 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:57:30 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=203105#comment-22113 Nice post. Amazon do a great job with their service. Being able to turn instances on and off for testing, scaling up with demand is invaluable for startups like us.

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