4200 new employees.
Revenue actually beat expectations by a lot.
Most of their businesses worldwide grew by 30-40%, their web services business almost doubled.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/amazon...28?tag=nl.e589
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If you look at the growth year-over-year of that CapEx, approximately 80% of that is due to pure capacity and that’s capacity in terms of fulfillment; it’s capacity from an infrastructure standpoint to serve retail business as wel as AWS. And another 10% or 12% is associated with just corporate office space, and the remainder is a number of small items. So, again, the vast majority, approximately 80%, is due to capacity, both infrastructure and our operations capacity.
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Translation: Amazon is selling all they can deliver so they are growing to sell even more.