Amazon Web Services posts $2.88 billion in revenue in Q2 2016, up 58% from last year

Ecommerce company Amazon today disclosed that its Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud division generated $2.88 billion in revenue in the second quarter of this year. That’s 58 percent more than AWS generated in the second quarter of 2015. And it’s the most revenue AWS has ever captured in a quarter.
In the past four quarters, AWS has registered $9.94 billion in revenue — not very far off from $10 billion. That said, revenue growth is not as high as it’s been in previou