Quarterly figures – Amazon posts record profit, cloud thank – Süddeutsche.de

• The gain is twice as high as expected. Amazon tops the expectations of its investors significantly
• The cloud service AWS – Netflix and Spotify use it, for example – is highly profitable
• How will sell well individual devices, remains secret. Only with Echo Group are somewhat at: Due to high demand there is supply shortages

Amazon has significantly exceeded its quarterly figures investor expectations. The gain was due almost twice as high as investors ,. Open market the share increased by 13 percent. The world’s largest online retailer earned last quarter $ 513 million.

Amazon benefits from its booming business with cloud services. The AWS division proved again this quarter as a money machine. With a turnover of more than $ 2.6 billion drove an operating profit of 604 million dollars.

Amazon offers businesses computing power from the grid. Many start-ups and established companies rely on cloud services from AWS, for example, the streaming services Netflix and Spotify. The division’s sales jumped year on year by 64 percent up and the operating profit was more than tripled.

Strategically open

Also, the US trade business was profitable with a jump in operating profit of 254 to 588 million dollars. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has invested in recent years always much in the development of business and new products, so that at best narrow profits remained. Amazon has shown in recent quarters, however, that this strategy can be broken.

The sales grew by more than a quarter to almost 17 billion dollars. In international business, there were on an operational basis in the red of 121 million dollars on revenues of 9.57 billion dollars.

No numbers to “echo”

Amazon is currently also massively the equipment business, new tablet computers, e-book readers and networked loudspeakers. The company recently presented a high-end Kindle. Concrete numbers for equipment sales calls not traditionally Amazon. Bezos told only that sales of tablets would have more than doubled year over year.

Even with the echo Lautsprechernn no figures were mentioned. The speakers respond to the name “Alexa” and can play music or read messages. They are now rated by many technology journalists as a product that could revolutionize the market .deutlich. Given the high demand there is supply shortages, it was now.