The Australian entity that provides marketing and data centre services to Amazon Web Services (AWS) has grown its Australian revenues by 170 percent to reach almost $70 million.
In financial results filed with ASIC for the 12 months to 31 December 2013, Amazon Corporate Services Pty Ltd turned over $69.4 million, up 170 percent year-on-year from $25.7 million.
However, its bottom line was less rosy. In the previous year, the company posted a $722,000 profit; this time around, its results were dragged $370,000 into the red by a number of major increases in costs.
The company's pre-tax profit also fell, down 57 percent to $644,112, however, its tax bill rose 37 percent to $1 million.
Onlookers have long tried to unpick the exact size of Amazon's public cloud business, with limited success. According to research body Canalys, AWS was expected to generate $3.8 billion of revenue in the 2013 year.
Amazon Corporate Services' principal activities are sales and marketing of AWS and "to own and operate technology infrastructure equipment that is maintained in co-located centres and used to support and facilitate the delivery of AWS services".
While the document states that "all of the company's service revenue is sourced from Amazon Web Services", AWS told CRN the figures don't reflect customer sales.
"Amazon Corporate Services Pty Ltd provides marketing and data centre services to Amazon Web Services, Inc," according to a statement.
"The revenue of Amazon Corporate Services Pty Ltd does not represent revenue from customers using AWS services, in Australia or any other region. AWS revenue is only reported as part of the 'other' category on Amazon financial statements."
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Amazon Corporate Services incurred $16.6 million of depreciation costs, having reported just $4.8 million in depreciation last year.
The next biggest cost was on salaries, bonuses, share payments and other employee benefits, which totalled $23.9 million, or an average of $181,000 for each of the company's 132 employees.
This marked a decent hike over last year's $8.1 million on salaries, bonuses, share payments and other employee benefits, or $147,000 for each of its then-headcount of 55 people.
It also spent $15.7 million on occupancy costs, an increase from last year's $5.7 million.
The revenues are still marginal compared with mega-vendors such as HP and IBM, but its upward trajectory is also in stark contrast to these firms.
HP Australia's revenue for the year to 31 October 2013 fell marginally from $3.5 billion in 2012 to $3.3 billion in 2013, while it posted a significant $270 million net loss.
Just this week, IBM Australia saw a 33.7 percent fall in profit to $118 million and an 8.8 percent fall in revenue to $4.12 billion for the 2013 calendar year, according to the AFR.
The bumper local performance for Amazon Web Services comes hot on the heels of its recent summit in Sydney, which saw a rise in sponsors from 15 to 34.
AWS has around 700 partners in ANZ. In its most recent full-year results, Amazon revealed that AWS had "8,000 technology and consulting partners worldwide".
UPDATE: This story was updated from an earlier version following comment from Amazon Web Services that "the revenue of Amazon Corporate Services does not represent revenue from customers using AWS services".
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