After reporting $18.44 billion of revenue in the first quarter of 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has posted $19.7 billion in revenue for the second quarter of this year. That marks a 33-percent increase year-over year for Amazon’s cloud service, which continues to strengthen its position in an ever-growing market. During a conference call to reports its Q2 earnings, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky shared details on AWS’s position in the industry. Currently, AWS has 84 availability zones distributed across 26 geographic regions, and has plans to expand by adding eight more regions with 24 more availability zones.
Amazon also revealed that about 40 percent of its $16.77 billion in capital investments in Q2 went towards AWS and that rate should increase to 50 percent in 2022. So for the remainder of the year, Amazon should be expected to invest about 60 percent of its capital investments into AWS. Along with 33.3-percent revenue growth, Amazon posted an increase of 36.3 percent in operating income to $5.72 billion.
“AWS continues to grow at a fast pace, and we believe we are still in the early stages of enterprise and public sector adoption of the cloud,” said Olsavsky. “We see great opportunity to continue to make investments on behalf of AWS customers. We continue to invest thoughtfully in new infrastructure to meet capacity needs, while expanding AWS to new regions, developing new services, and iterating quickly to enhance existing services.”
AWS isn’t the only cloud service poised to invest heavily in new cloud regions over the coming years. Competitors Microsoft and Oracle have both announced plans for expansion to better serve its customers’ cloud storage needs worldwide. With its Q2 earnings call, AWS joins Microsoft, Google, and Oracle in all reporting increases in cloud revenue for Q2 2022.
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Source: The Next Platform