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AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.

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AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.

Andy Jassy has made it known that he believes AWS can be a trillion-dollar revenue business. During Amazon’s quarterly earnings call on Thursday, he repeated this ambition.

“What we’re building at Amazon is unlike anything that’s ever been seen before. There has never been a business with a trillion dollars of annual revenue,” he said.

However, before the cloud business gets there, Amazon is going to have ramp up its capital expenditures to build out the infrastructure necessary to support that blossoming business.

“We still expect 2026 cash capex of approximately $220 billion — the majority for AWS — and expect to spend meaningfully more in 2027, with a clear line of sight to attract its financial returns,” Jassy revealed on Thursday.

Amazon’s big spending on its AI infrastructure buildout has been an ongoing source of concern for investors this year. Indeed, during Thursday’s call, Wall Street analysts repeatedly asked Jassy to explain the spending, the signals that the growth really will come, and the profit margins expected.

Jassy told them it was all money well spent because the e-commerce giant planned to capitalize on a historic moment in global cloud demand driven by AI. AWS revenue increased 39 percent from the year-ago quarter, a trend of steady growth for the sixth straight quarter.

And the CEO forecast on the call that it would increase by 40% not just next year, but in 2028, too.

“AWS is a $184 billion annualized revenue run-rate business, and yet the opportunity remains extraordinary,” the CEO enthused.


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