[Alupis]

Profit for something like AWS is likely difficult to put a number on.

They built it so they could run Amazon.com off the infrastructure, but then decided they could make money leasing their under-subscribed portions.

If they are not making a cut-and-dry profit from AWS (I'd fathom they are, they are one of the most expensive cloud providers and many other providers turn a healthy profit), then they are at least dramatically offsetting their own Amazon.com infrastructure costs which are mandatory anyway.

[coleca]

Actually, they built AWS as a business on its own right from the start and only later moved Amazon.com onto AWS.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing/...