Before amazon announced fourth quarter financial results, exceed market expectations.In fiscal 2018, AWS speed with 47% growth, has brought most of the profits to the company.
In the fourth quarter net profit of $3 billion, amazon diluted net profit of $6.04 per share, and in the fourth quarter net profit of $1.9 billion, 2017 diluted net profit of $3.75 a share.In the fourth quarter revenue rose 20% to $72.4 billion.
Amazon full-year net profit of $10.1 billion, $20.14 per diluted share, in 2017 net profit of $3 billion, $6.15 per diluted share.Compared with $2017 in 177.9 billion, the net sales increased by 31%, to $232.9 billion.
AWS edging out the amazon e-commerce department of North America, in 2018 operating income of the highest department.AWS in 2018 operating income of $7.3 billion, amazon in North America for $7.27 billion.But the problem is that the same is more than $70 in revenue, amazon North America need $141.4 billion in revenue to achieve this goal, AWS is only need $25.65 billion.AWS net sales growth of 47% year-on-year, growth is faster than other business units.In general, a 31% increase in the amazon.
Moor Insights & Strategy, founder of the analyst Patrick Moorhead said in a statement, he will be the AWS growth due to "it through 'elastic' function to enhance the flexibility, but also increased the EC computing capacity variability".He added: "I really want to see the AWS recently released AI PaaS and SaaS service performance, because they look quite impressive."