When you think Amazon what do you think of? I would be willing to bet that you do not think of Amazon as the fast growing IT companies but they are. Amazon Web Services started 9 years ago and is about to surpass 10 Billion by next year and it is crazy to me to think that this all started as a good business decision to generate revenue with an used resource...Like any good business, the AWS has evolved, from doing one or services to now offering a whole host of services, affordable scaleable virtual platforms and because of their economies of scale they are able to offer these services at a very competitive rate.  Amazon now has a million customers some of the most reputable are Netfilx, GE.  If they continues at this trend, Amazon Web Services division could be worth a 160 Billion dollars by 2017.
 
CNN money reported Amazon achieved this faster then Apple 19 years, Microsoft took 22 years, and Oracle at 23 years.  Bravo Jeff, well done. 

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/04/technology/amazon-aws-160-billion-dollars/