The numbers

$33 billion: How much Amazon made in the third quarter from its cloud-computing business, Amazon Web Services—up 20% year-over-year and beating analyst projections . AWS now has an annualized revenue run rate of $132 billion.

$17.7 billion: How much Amazon made from advertising in the second quarter, an increase of 24% year-over-year.

13%: The amount that Amazon’s total net sales increased compared to last year’s Q3 earnings, to $180.2 billion.

$1.8 billion: What Amazon expects to pay in severance fees related to layoffs, which started this week when the company announced cuts of around 14,000 corporate jobs. Reuters and The Wall Street Journal both reported that the total number of affected jobs is expected to hit 30,000.

-69%: The drop in Amazon’s free cas

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