Amazon’s next billion-dollar business eyed

Amazon.com Inc’s cloud com­put­ing unit may be its next bil­lion-dol­lar busi­ness and ana­lysts will be watch­ing for clues on how fast this secre­tive unit is grow­ing when the Inter­net retail­er reports results next week. Ama­zon Web Ser­vices start­ed small in 2006 by sell­ing com­put­ing pow­er and data stor­age to emerg­ing tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies, blogs and web­sites. …