NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon delivered strong profits and net sales during its fiscal second quarter, helped by surging growth in its prominent cloud computing unit.The e-commerce and technology company said Thursday that sales in its cloud computing unit called AWS rose 37% during the April-June period, faster than the 28% clip in the previous quarter and marking the fastest rate of growth rate in 18 quarters.The Seattle-based company also offered a sales outlook in the current quarter that beat analysts’ expectations. Amazon reported net income of $62.65 billion, or $5.75 per share, in the three-month period ended June 30. That compares with $18.16 billion or $1.68 in the year-ago period. Net sales rose to $200.6 billion from $167.7 billion in the year-ago period. Analysts were expecting sales of $197.03 billion for the latest quarter.The results from the latest quarter underscored that demand keeps growing for Amazon’s services and technology.