Take a look at the operating margins for international(negative), NA(barely positive even), and AWS. Graphs for this are shown here: https://www.recode.net/201

Take a look at the operating margins for international(negative), NA(barely positive even), and AWS. Graphs for this are shown here: https://www.recode.net/2018/2/1/16961598/amazon-jeff-bezos-record-profit-11-quarter-q4-2017-earnings https://www.recode.net/2018/2/1/16961598/amazon-jeff-bezos-r... This is also in the article: The e-commerce giant posted a record profit of $1.9 billion during the last three months of 2017, marking the 11th straight quarter of positive net income for Jeff Bezos’s company. About $789 million of that can be attributed to a tax benefit resulting from President Trump’s tax plan. But even without the benefit, the profit number would have been the largest in the company’s history.