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New accounts show that pre-tax profits at data centre firm, Amazon Data Ireland Services Ltd increased by 23%

Sales at Amazon Irish web services unit hit €7 billion

Revenues at the Irish web services arm of online giant, Amazon soared by €1 billion or 16.5% to €7.09 billion last year.

Business • 03 Jun

Amazon has reported a 7% improvement in retail sales in the quarter ended September 30 to $61.41 billion

Amazon's improving retail sales boost Q3 profit

Amazon.com has posted third-quarter profit and sales above Wall Street estimates, helped by favourable retail sales, sending its shares up 5.7% after the closing bell.

Business • 01 Nov 24

Amazon Web Services is Amazon's cloud computing arm

Amazon to invest £8 billion in UK data centres

Internet giant Amazon's cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, said today that it plans to spend £8 billion in the UK over the next five years to build, operate and maintain data centres.

Business • 11 Sep 24

The company last year paid a dividend of €600m

25% rise in revenues at Irish arm of Amazon Web Services

The Irish arm of Amazon Web Services' data centre business grew by €1.22 billion or 25% to €6.08 billion last year.

Business • 01 Jul 24

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to invest €15.7 billion in data centres in Spain

Amazon Web Services to invest €15.7 billion in Spain

Tech giant Amazon's cloud computing unit AWS will invest €15.7 billion in data centres in Spain's northeastern Aragon region, it said today, significantly boosting its expansion plan in the country.

Business • 22 May 24

AWS last year announced plans to store data on servers located in the European Union to protect data privacy for government and customers in highly regulated industries

Amazon Web Services plans $8.4bn investment in Germany

Amazon Web Services said today it plans to invest €7.8 billion in Germany up to 2040 as it builds a cloud computing infrastructure specifically for Europe.

Business • 15 May 24

Amazon said its first-quarter sales increased 13% to $143.3 billion, higher than the $142.5 billion average forecast

Amazon's quarterly results beat Wall Street estimates

Amazon.com reported quarterly results above Wall Street's expectations last night, as interest in artificial intelligence helped drive cloud-computing growth.

Business • 01 May 24

Lindsay McQuade, Director of Energy, EMEA at Amazon Web Services and Tom Donnellan, CEO of Bord na Móna

AWS plans data centres as part of Bord na Móna deal

Plans have been announced for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop data centres in the Midlands powered by wind and solar energy as part of a new collaboration with Bord na Móna.

Business • 01 May 24

Amazon Web Services has cut several hundred sales, marketing and tech roles

Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of tech, sales jobs

Amazon Web Services said it has eliminated several hundred sales, marketing and tech roles, the latest in a series of job cuts by its parent Amazon.com.

Business • 04 Apr 24

Hanley Energy has invested $12m in its new facility in Virginia, USA

Hanley Energy announces further US expansion

Hanley Energy has announced plans to create 150 new jobs, split between the US and Ireland, as part of its global expansion.

Business • 14 Mar 24

AWS has 4,200 direct employees in Ireland

Amazon Web Services worth €11.4bn to economy since 2012

A new report has found that Amazon's cloud computing division has contributed €11.4 billion to the Irish economy since 2012

Business • 26 Oct 23

One AWS data centre is already operational at the same campus

Appeals lodged over permission for Amazon data centres

Five third parties are now contesting Fingal Co Council's green light for Amazon Web Services's plans to construct three new data centres in north Dublin.

Business • 20 Oct 23

The UK's Ofcom had started looking into cloud services last year

Amazon and Microsoft cloud services face UK probe

Amazon and Microsoft, the two dominant cloud providers, face a competition investigation in Britain after the communications regulator said some aspects of the market, including fees to switch supplier, were a cause for concern.

Business • 05 Apr 23

The Pentagon has awarded $9 billion worth of cloud deals to Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Oracle

Pentagon splits $9 billion cloud contract among 4 firms

The US Pentagon has awarded $9 billion worth of cloud computing contracts to Alphabet's Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Oracle.

Business • 08 Dec 22

ISE Course Co-Director, Professor Stephen Kinsella, UL, Harvey Duthie, UL Foundation CEO, ISE Course Co-Director, Professor Tiziana Margaria, UL, Brian Dennehy, General Manager, AWS Observability, UL President Professor Kerstin Mey and Mike Beary, Country

AWS funding UL Fellowships programme 'forever'

Amazon Web Services is providing "a major new philanthropic gift" to fund a Global Fellowships programme in Immersive Software Engineering at the University of Limerick.

Business • 19 Aug 22

Amazon said the new UK jobs will include roles at its corporate offices, Amazon Web Services and operations network

Amazon to create 10,000 jobs in the UK this year

Amazon said today it would create 10,000 new permanent jobs in the UK in 2021, taking its total workforce in the country to over 55,000.

Business • 14 May 21

Amazon.com is one of the biggest winners of the Covid pandemic and it posted record profits last night

Amazon expects spring windfall as US economy reopens

Amazon.com, one of the biggest winners of the pandemic, posted record profits last night and signalled that consumers would keep spending in a growing US economy and converts to online shopping are not likely to leave.

Business • 30 Apr 21

According to the report, the company currently supports an estimated 8,700 jobs here

Amazon spends €2bn on Irish data centre network

Online giant, Amazon has made an estimated capital spend of €2bn on its network of data centres here over the past decade.

Business • 02 Feb 21

The new project in Co Galway adds to Amazon's existing projects in Esk in Co Cork and Meenbog in Co Donegal

Amazon invests in new Co Galway wind farm

Internet retail and web services giant Amazon has announced it is investing in a new 115-megawatt (MW) wind farm project in Ardderroo in Co Galway, which will begin operating in 2022.

Business • 24 Aug 20

The new jobs will be based at Amazon's Cork and Dublin sites

Amazon to create 1,000 jobs across Irish operations

Amazon is to create another 1,000 permanent jobs in Ireland over the next two years, bringing its total permanent workforce here to 5,000 people.

Business • 27 Jul 20

Pictured prior to Covid-19 restrictions are Enterprise Ireland's Jenny Melia; Mark Dunleavy, Head of Commercial, Ireland, Amazon Web Services; Aisling Teillard, CEO of Tandem HR and Keith Brock, from Enterprise Ireland

Enterprise Ireland in new start-up initiative with AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Enterprise Ireland have joined forces to provide entrepreneurs and early stage companies access to a range of resources, benefits and technologies to help them innovate and grow.

Business • 06 Jul 20

The gross floor area of the centre will be 28,573 square metres

Amazon gets green light for Drogheda data centre

Conditional planning permission has been granted for a large new Amazon data centre development just outside Drogheda

Business • 13 Feb 20

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly lashed out at Amazon and company founder Jeff Bezos

Amazon calls 'bias' as Microsoft wins Pentagon contract

Amazon has challenged the awarding of a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft, alleging "unmistakable bias" in the process.

Business • 15 Nov 19

Amazon is facing fierce competition and rising costs from its plan to speed up delivery times globally

Amazon's gloomy forecast misses estimates

Amazon.com last night forecast revenue and profit for the Christmas quarter below expectations, as it faces fierce competition and rising costs from its plan to speed up delivery times globally.

Business • 25 Oct 19

The wind farm will be based in County Cork and is expected to generate 68,000 megawatt hours of clean energy annually

Amazon to invest in second Irish wind farm

Internet retail and web services giant Amazon has announced it is to invest in a second wind energy project in Ireland.

Business • 01 Aug 19