Amazon eyes business services

Schools, hospitals and governments have quickly embraced Amazon as a source of supplies, propelling the company’s three-year-old business platform into a €8.6bn-plus annual enterprise. Its success may soon provide as much revenue as the Amazon Web Services cloud-computing division and its digital-advertising services.

The e-commerce giant will likely keep expanding the business service internationally — it is currently in eight countries — in response to demand from customers, said Prentis Wilson, an Amazon vice-president who oversees the division.