Amazon Web Services grabs $2.5 billion in revenue in Q1 2016, up 63% over last year

Amazon today released its earnings statement for the first quarter of the year, and things are looking up, as usual, for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud division. AWS fetched $2.56 billion in revenue for the quarter. Operating income for the business unit came in at $604 million — more than half of the […]