One of the brightest spots in Amazon’s earnings report is its growing cloud business. Amazon is most widely known as an online retail business—albeit one bolstered by devices like the Kindle e-reader and Alexa-powered speakers as well as services such as Amazon Prime. But it also offers cloud computing services to other companies through Amazon Web Services, or AWS. AWS customers include firms like Netflix, Comcast, TIME parent Time Inc, and many, many startups.
There’s a Massive Company Hidden Inside Amazon