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Amazon shares jumped more than 13% in extended trading Thursday after the company posted third-quarter earnings that exceeded expectations, along with strong growth in its cloud-computing unit.
Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG:
Earnings per share: $1.95 vs. $1.57 estimated
Revenue: $180.17 billion vs. $177.8 billion estimated
Wall Street was also looking at other key revenue numbers:
Amazon Web Services: $33 billion vs. $32.42 billion expected, according to StreetAccount
Advertising: $17.7 billion vs. $17.34 billion expected, according to StreetAccount
Revenue in Amazon's cloud unit accelerated 20.2% during the quarter, surpassing analysts' expect

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