Despite a trickle of bad news from Amazon in recent weeks, the company's business is thrumming along, with AWS leading the way.

Amazon reported earnings for its third quarter on Thursday and investors were tickled, sending the stock up more than 13 percent after hours. The company beat on most metrics, and posted 20 percent revenue growth in its AWS cloud computing business, which delivered $33 billion in sales.

"Customers want to be running the core and AI workloads in AWS, given its stronger functionality, security, and operational performance," said CEO Andy Jassy on the earnings call, without mentioning outages in each of the last and two weeks . "And the scale I see in front of us gives me significant confidence in what lies ahead."

As points of comparison, Google Cloud reported Q3

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