Amazon's cloud juggernaut earned almost $2 billion last year
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Thomson Reuters
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The company revealed the numbers in its latest earnings release which just crossed the wires.
Amazon broke out AWS as a separate business for the first time last year, surprising many with how big it was.
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Overall, though, the company missed expectations on both earnings and revenue and the stock plunged as much as 12% after hours.
AWS was one of the few bright spots, as it grew revenue more than 70% between 2014 and 2015, compared with 20% growth across all of Amazon's business.
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Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through hispersonal investment company Bezos Expeditions.
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