AWS Statistics: $1.5 Billion In Revenues For 2012

The scale of Amazon Web Services has always been something we have been curious about. For instance, we had spotted a stat on the number of servers powering the Amazon cloud. We spotted the absolute size in dollar terms today - it is a 1.5 billion dollar a year business. (Source)

That a retailer would end up dominating the cloud infrastructure space is the most surprising part in all this.