AWS years on - anyone still making money?

[Generalissimo]

For first quarter ever I didn't make enough to be paid by amazon last quarter. Why? My AWS sites are not longer making much at all.

Is this the same for all of you? I notice Chris no longer lists his in his signiture...

[Chris]

I dumped all mine actually. The only way I use AWS now is through my wedding registry site and its all backend stuff.

[Mike]

From making hundreds a month from them, earnings suddenly dropped. Like a lot of things, it was a bit of a fad. To be honest the less AWS sites the better, unless they are done properly they clutter up the internet with duplicate content.

[rpanella]

AWS in general is fine and lots of people are making money using their web services.

What is dead now is using AWS to auto-generate thin affiliate sites with all content from amazon reviews etc, and hoping to get generic search traffic. That used to work well, but no longer does.
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[Emancipator]

revenue dropped off to nothing and i dropped aws from my sites like chris did.

[Dan Morgan]

High on my ever expanding do list is to either flog off mine or turn them into content sites.

[Generalissimo]

I think I'm going to turn a few of mine into content sites, they've got good designs and in a good market without too much competition.