You got that first one wrong, the 78% figure was yearly growth. AWS grew roughly 14% quarter-over-quarter: "Amazon reported net AWS sales of $2.085 billion, up

You got that first one wrong, the 78% figure was yearly growth. AWS grew roughly 14% quarter-over-quarter: "Amazon reported net AWS sales of $2.085 billion, up from $1.169 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. That’s a 78% jump in net sales for the company’s AWS business, which it started breaking out earlier this year. It’s even a big quarter-over-quarter jump: Amazon $1.82 billion in net sales for AWS in the previous quarter."