5 billion dollars a year. That is pretty impressive.

Compared that to a company like Google that can't make any money at all off their infrastructure except with search ads[1] :-) That is the real story for me. And a tiny bit personal because when I was there I didn't feel that platforms got nearly the respect they deserved for keeping the roads rolling.

Congratulations to the Amazon team, that is an impressive feat indeed.

[1] http://investor.google.com/earnings/2015/Q1_google_earnings....