Amazon Q4 2016 – AWS solid while Echo roars

Back in April, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky predicted the AWS business would breach $10 billion revenues in 2016, and it did it at a canter.
Growth in the data centre business may be slowing year-on-year, but I wouldn’t feel too sorry for the team as it did pocket just over $12.2 billion over the course of 2016, with Q4 accounting for 47% year-on-year growth. While these figures will be the envy of everyone else in the cloud world, the team is already laying the foundation of its next blockbu