Amazon's $18 billion cloud business continues to crush Microsoft and Google -- here's the latest scorecard for the cloud war (AMZN)

Amazon Amazon, Microsoft, and Google all reported earnings on the same day, giving us an update on the state of the cloud computing war. It's hard to directly compare Amazon's $18 billion Amazon Web Services business with its rivals, Microsoft's Azure and Google Cloud. Butby all indications, Amazon is far and away the leader in the public cloud computing market. WhenAmazon, Microsoft, and Google all released their quarterly earnings on Thursday, they did more than give onlookers an update on the...