Amazon’s cloud strategy: As big as books
By
Nick Wakeman
James Hamilton, vice president in charge of Amazon Web Services, describes the the company's cloud strategy in an article in Bloomberg Businessweek.
Amazon expects its cloud services business to eventually equal the e-commerce sales the huge bookseller generates, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek article.
Web services brought in about $500 million of Amazon’s $34.2 billion in sales, according to estimates by analysts.
Businessweek describes Amazon’s cloud strategy in a profile of company vice president James Hamilton, who runs Amazon Web Services.
Recently, Teresa Carlson left Microsoft to run the global public sector business for Amazon Web Services.