GigaOM: If you parse Amazon’s first quarter earnings, you could be forgiven for thinking that Amazon Web Services is now a $2 billion-a-year business.
That’s because Amazon’s revenue from the “other” category for the quarter ending March 31, 2012 was $500 million, up from $311 million for the year-ago period. If you assume “other” is AWS only, that’s a $2 billion-a-year run rate for 2012.
Amazon are developing a new platform for creating VR and AR apps as part of Amazon Web Services.
Amazon Web Services amongst the partners at the Hannover-based trade show.
Amazon Web Services has a new market for its cloud computing, analytics, and storage services.
This week, the Defense Department granted the cloud computing giant a provisional authorization to host Impact Level 5 workloads, which are the military and Pentagon’s most sensitive, unclassified information.
