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Amazon said AWS revenue grew 39.3% year over year in its latest quarter, marking the sixth straight quarter of accelerating growth and its fastest pace in nearly five years, as more businesses move core systems and AI use cases onto AWS.
Amazon’s AWS chief said the cloud business is building momentum because enterprises are not treating AI as a one-off experiment. In remarks tied to the company’s third-quarter results, Andy Jassy pointed to growing demand from businesses running both foundational “Core” technology workloads and AI workloads on AWS, helping the segment keep speeding up.
Amazon reported that AWS grew 39.3% year over year, with growth accelerating for the sixth consecutive quarter. The company framed the latest quarter as AWS’s fastest growth rate in nearly five years, a key data point because it suggests the market for cloud infrastructure and managed services is still expanding even as customers manage costs.
Jassy’s message also emphasized Amazon Web Services as a platform built around developers. The company highlighted the idea that in an AI era, software developers become the bridge between new capabilities and business outcomes, and AWS is positioning its tooling and services to help them build, deploy, and scale.
The business case, as Amazon presented it, is that more enterprises are moving beyond isolated AI pilots. Instead, they are putting more workloads that support core operations into AWS while also expanding AI deployments, which Amazon said is contributing to the observed acceleration in AWS growth.
Beyond the cloud segment, Amazon used its earnings communications to showcase new consumer Alexa hardware. The company unveiled a new lineup of Alexa devices, along with products it described as designed to make it easier for users to start and end their day and to bring photos into the home, including Echo Time and an Alexa Photo Frame.
Echo Time, described by Amazon as a smarter way to start and end your day, reflects the company’s strategy of integrating voice and automation into daily routines. The Alexa Photo Frame, described as a way to bring photos into the home, aligns with Amazon’s broader effort to keep Alexa embedded across devices rather than limiting the assistant to a single speaker.
In sector terms, AWS’s reported acceleration points to a cloud market where spend is increasingly tied to workloads that combine traditional enterprise needs with data and AI capabilities. If enterprises continue scaling those mixed workloads, cloud providers like Amazon can benefit not only from incremental compute demand but also from the stickiness that comes with running multiple layers of an application stack on the same platform.
Still, Amazon did not offer detailed segment drivers in the information available here, including how much of the 39.3% year-over-year AWS growth came from specific service categories such as compute, storage, database, or AI-focused offerings. The communications also did not break out whether the acceleration reflects new migrations, expansions of existing contracts, or changes in pricing and mix for the latest quarter.
What to watch next is whether AWS keeps its accelerating trajectory in future quarters, and whether the rate of growth remains consistent as enterprises manage cloud budgets. Investors and industry observers are likely to focus on any additional disclosures around AI-related demand and how Amazon expects developers to translate AI projects into broader production workloads across enterprise environments.
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