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Apple could soon ditch Amazon Web Services after it's expected to spend roughly $1 billion on it, says analyst

Feb 2, 2016, 03:38 IST

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Apple is showing signs of possibly moving away from Amazon Web Services, and instead building its own data centers to power its online products, Morgan Stanley wrote in a note on Monday.

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The note said that Apple is planning to open three new data centers over the next two years, bringing its total to seven worldwide. That would be roughly 2.5 million square feet of data centers, or nearly 40% of the 6.7 million square feet AWS used by the end of 2015.

If true, this move could have a pretty sizable impact on AWS's revenue, as Apple is expected to spend roughly $1 billion on AWS this year, accounting for almost 9% of the cloud-computing service's 2016 sales estimates, the note said.

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In the most recent quarter, AWS had $2.4 billion in revenue, up 69% from the same period of last year. For the full year, it generated $7.8 billion in revenue, and said it's expected to generate roughly $10 billion in 2016.

Morgan Stanley didn't give a clear reason for Apple's possible departure from AWS, but it could be because of the two companies' increasingly competing nature across the app market and content-streaming business. Apple might think it's safer and more efficient to run its own data center, too.

But it would also be a decision that runs in contrast to what a lot of other big companies are doing lately. In addition to the smaller startups that accelerated AWS's growth, more big companies - like Netflix, General Electric, and Capital One - are moving their workload to AWS and shuttering their own data centers.

It's why some investors believe there will be an "Amazon tax" in the future, where companies will be expected to pay AWS a fixed fee every year, as they increasingly rely on AWS to run their services.

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