The web big Amazon has reported the outcomes of the second quarter of the present fiscal yr, which was closed on June 30. By way of key indicators, important progress was recorded, which was largely facilitated by the present epidemiological scenario.

Amazon’s income and income improve considerably as AWS enterprise grows

Amazon’s income reached $ 113.1 billion, which is 27% greater than within the second quarter of final yr; which introduced in about $ 88.9 billion. But the consequence proven was beneath analysts’ forecasts, who referred to as the determine of $ 115.2 billion.

Working revenue rose from $ 5.eight billion to $ 7.7 billion. Internet revenue was $ 7.eight billion in opposition to $ 5.2 billion a yr earlier. Revenue per share reached $ 15.12 ($ 10.30 within the second quarter of the earlier fiscal yr).

Amazon talks concerning the ongoing growth of the AWS (Amazon Internet Companies) cloud enterprise. The recognition of such companies is rising in opposition to the backdrop of a pandemic; that provoked a growth in distance studying platforms, distant work, and so on.

AWS income was $ 14.81 billion, up 37% year-on-year. Furthermore, the expansion charges have elevated: within the first quarter of this yr with a 32% improve.

Amazon is actively increasing its employees. On the finish of the second quarter, the corporate had 1.34 million staff; which is one and a half instances (52%) greater than within the second quarter of 2020.

Amazon has no plans to simply accept bitcoins as fee for items

Amazon has denied earlier studies that the corporate intends to start out accepting funds in bitcoins by the tip of the yr. The plans of the e-commerce big to get began with cryptocurrency had been introduced by the British enterprise newspaper Metropolis AM; citing its personal supply within the firm.

Later, the information unfold on the Web and Amazon needed to deny it. “Regardless of our curiosity on this space, the speculations which have arisen round our particular plans for cryptocurrencies usually are not true. We’re nonetheless specializing in exploring what this would possibly seem like for patrons purchasing on Amazon, ”mentioned an organization spokesman.

On the finish of final month, Amazon posted a emptiness for the place of a number one specialist in digital currencies and blockchain platforms. It’s price noting that resulting from rumors concerning the starting of accepting bitcoins as fee for items on Amazon; the expansion of the preferred cryptocurrency charge by 14.5%. On the time of this writing, the price of bitcoin has declined barely and the cryptocurrency is buying and selling at $ 36,755 per unit.

The supply notes that increasingly more firms are beginning to settle for cryptocurrency as fee. Consequently, an asset class that was shunned by giant monetary establishments just a few years in the past is regularly turning into mainstream. Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned final week that his firm is prone to begin accepting bitcoin as fee once more after conducting a test on the quantity of renewable power used to mine cryptocurrency.