But when Amazon releases its fourth-quarter financial figures early next year, we still may not get much insight into how much it made from its signature Prime membership program. Although net sales from AWS are far below North America’s figures, the two segments came very close to generating the same amount of operating income in ; From our advertisers. Amazon has lost money in each of the last 3 years in its International sales. FB and Alphabet’s Google unit. AWS is the latest Amazon business to be included in an antitrust probe by the U. We also reference original research from other reputable publishers where appropriate.