Amazon Seen Spinning Off Cloud Computing Unit AWS
Amazon.com (AMZN) is likely to spin off its cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, says Oppenheimer.In a report on the cloud industry released Monday, Oppenheimer analyst Tim Horan says Amazon's cloud computing unit would be better off as a publicly traded subsidiary."We believe an ultimate spinoff of AWS is inevitable due to its channel conflicts and the need to gain scale," Horan wrote. " We see the business as extremely valuable on a stand-alone basis, possibly even operating as a REIT (real estate investment trust)."To date, public cloud users, including online retailers, have had few alternatives when utilizing the cloud, other than to
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Stuart Miniman
RT @VanessaAlvarez1: RT @MichaelKrey: Will http://t.co/BJkDYfwp $AMZN spin off #AWS? Certainly, says analyst http://t.co/7dAl2Cat <hm ...
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Ken Oestreich
@VanessaAlvarez1 @MichaelKrey AMZN to spin-off AWS? http://t.co/8RlQm76g Would ding their market cap... but would ding other SPs more...
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WorkInTheCloud
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Reuven Cohen
http://t.co/Bgb3KoqD Spinoff Of Cloud Computing Unit Called 'Inevitable' AMZN http://t.co/jHbXsnCk
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Vanessa Alvarez
RT @MichaelKrey: Will http://t.co/BJkDYfwp $AMZN spin off #AWS? Certainly, says analyst http://t.co/7dAl2Cat <hmm,they should but will they?
