Amazon Web Services (AWS) went from a virtual standing start to $25 million in revenues in the year of its launch in Australia, ASIC documents reveal.
The data, which covers the 2012 calendar year, has only just been made available by the corporate regulator.
The 2012 full-year results for Amazon Corporate Services Pty Ltd show the company grew from a $1.3 million business in the six months to 31 December 2011 to a $25.7 million business for the full calendar year to 31 December 2012.
The company posted a full-year net profit of $722,053.
Year-on-year comparisons are not available as the company transitioned its financial year to synchronise with the calendar year reporting of its parent company between 2011 and 2012.
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Amazon Corporate Services' principal activities are sales and marketing of AWS and "to own and operate technology infrastructure equipment that is maintained in collocated centres and used to support and facilitate the delivery of AWS services".
This meteoric rise in revenues tallies with anecdotal evidence of AWS's landgrab of the public cloud market in Australia and worldwide.
The performance is particularly impressive given that AWS only officially launched in Australia in in November 2012.
Amazon Web Services did not respond to CRN's request for comment on how it managed to reap $25.7 million over the 2012 full year despite its local data centre only operating for two months.
According to research body Canalys, AWS is expected to generate $3.8 billion of revenue during its 2013 year – more than the next five major players combined, which are forecast to turn over a total of $2.4 billion.
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