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Amazon reports ‘better than expected' results following heavy investment cloud technology

Amazon has reported a loss of $57m (£38m) in the first quarter of 2015, while revenues jumped 15% despite major investment in the development of its cloud services.

The retail giant said revenue from sales of Amazon web services (AWS) for the first three months of 2015 was $1.57bn.

Founder Jeff Bezos called AWS a ‘$5bn business’ and he noted that it is ‘still growing fast,’ while sales of its web services offering increased by 49% from a year earlier.

Revenue increase was better-than-expected, rising by 15% to $22.7bn, boosted by sales in North America.

For the first time, the figures confirm that Amazon’s cloud business is the biggest of its kind in terms of revenue.

Bezos said: “We’re putting a lot of capex (capital expenditure) there, and we think over time we will be able to generate significant free cash flow,”

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