I remember reading one of the quarterly earnings reports last year. It said: Amazon as a whole (including AWS) made $500m that quarter. It also said that AWS ma

I remember reading one of the quarterly earnings reports last year. It said: Amazon as a whole (including AWS) made $500m that quarter. It also said that AWS made $600m that quarter. What this means is that everything Amazon does that is not AWS lost $100m in a quarter. If you reduce the size of that, Amazon will make more money.