In its Q4 financial report, Amazon reported that AWS segment sales increased 20% year-over-year to $21.4 billion. However, operating income dipped to $5.205 billion for the quarter, down 2% yoy.
Some additional highlights:
- Nasdaq completed the migration of its MRX core trading system to the cloud,
- Stability AI selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to build and train artificial intelligence (AI) models
- Descartes Labs is going all-in on AWS to give customers timely, actionable insights to tackle challenges like enhancing food security and mitigating climate change.
- Brookfield Asset Management selected AWS as a preferred cloud provide
- Duke Energy is working with AWS on smart grid solutions to improve reliability and resiliency in preparation for rapid electric vehicle adoption.
- Launched AWS Regions in Spain and Switzerland as well as a second Region in India to continue expanding AWS’s infrastructure footprint,
- As of the end of 2022, AWS has 96 Availability Zones within 30 geographic Regions globally, with announced plans to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions.