Amazon is taking the covers off its most secretive business

Few of Amazon’s products are as influential and revolutionairy as Amazon Web Services, and few of them are as shrouded in secret either. In the nine years since its launch, statistics regarding AWS have been kept from the public, but now that the business has grown so large, Amazon has decided to report its revenue and profitability as an entirely separate business, meaning we’re finally going to get a good look at AWS.