E-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) just released its second-quarter fiscal 2017 financial results, and as one of the largest companies in the S&P 500, it has significant market-moving potential. Amazon made its name as an online shopping marketplace, but one of the most notable aspects of today’s report was the latest data from Amazon Web Services.
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Web Services is a collection of enterprise-level platforms designed for websites and companies that can’t afford the time or money it takes to develop their own server farms. In other words, AWS provides cloud-based storage and templates for companies to quickly boost their computing capabilities.
Launched a decade ago, AWS has really exploded in popularity over the past few years. Last quarter, Amazon reported AWS segment revenues of $3.661 billion—an increase of 43% year-over-year on a constant currency basis.
According to Amazon’s just-released report, AWS revenues totaled $4.100 billion in the second quarter. This marks growth of about 42% sequentially and 12% sequentially. This is just about in-line with recent growth rates, which means Amazon has been able to maintain its impressive momentum here.
Interestingly, segment operating income increased just 27.6% to $916 million. Segment operating margin was down about 10% to 22.3%, and since AWS is a key driver of Amazon’s profit, this could be a reason for the company’s massive earnings miss.
Overall, Amazon posted earnings of $0.40 per share, which missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by more than a dollar.
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