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Andy Jassy

Andy Jassy

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Andy Jassy -- Born: 1968-01-13. Occupation: business executive. Employer: Amazon. Position: chief executive officer. Education: Harvard Business School. Awards: Time 100.

Born1968-01-13

Occupationbusiness executive

EmployerAmazon, Amazon Web Services

Positionchief executive officer

EducationHarvard Business School, Harvard University, Scarsdale High School

AwardsTime 100

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There is not one tool to rule the world, and they want choice.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Most of the value companies derive from AI will be through agents.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And normally, that would have taken 40 or 50 people about a year to do, and we took 5 really smart people, AI forward-thinking people building on agentic coding tools and those 5 people rebuilt it in 65 days.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
On the use of AI internally and for our current businesses, I think that the shortest first summary I could give you, Colin, is that I do not see a place in any of our businesses or any of the ways that we do work where we're not going to have giant impact on what we do.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
If our chips business was a stand-alone business and sold chips produced this year to AWS and other third parties as other leading chip companies do, our annual revenue run rate would be $50 billion.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
One of the interesting things that we see right now with the change in price and in supply on things like memory is that it is a further impetus pushing companies who have on-premises infrastructure into the cloud.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And there are so many new applications that none of us have ever imagined or dreamed we could build that are starting to be built and will be built.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We've never seen a technology grow as rapidly as AI.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Like that is a very different world of operating.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
There are billions of people around the world who do not have access to broadband connectivity.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Our plan is largely the same, but we do view this as truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where every application that we know of is going to be reinvented.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And with more than $150 billion in gross sales in 2025, we're now the second largest grocer in the U.S.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
As I've said before, the largest absolute place that we see enterprises having success is in projects that are around cost avoidance and productivities.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
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I think it’s going to change every customer experience that we know.
Fortune2026-08-01Source
Apart from what we've talked about in 2026, the lion's share of capacity in 2027, we're adding a lot of capacity, as I mentioned just a few minutes ago, is largely reserved, and we have quite a bit of capacity that's already been reserved for 2028.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
As I mentioned earlier, it's over $25 billion in annual revenue at this point.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We also expanded Amazon Lens, which lets customers take a photo of anything they see and instantly find the same or similar items on Amazon, to 10 additional countries, and it's now available in 21 countries around the world.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Continuum really allows them to use those models productively to find their own vulnerabilities in their code, to design the fixes, and to help them deploy them.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We always knew that if we wanted to serve the number of customers who want us to serve them and that we want to serve, we had to find a way to offer mass brands and perishables in a significant way.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Kiro, which is our agentic coding service, is an example of that.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I think that Amazon Connect, which is our call center service, which is used by all five major leading airline providers, as well as many of the leading banks and healthcare companies, continues to grow very quickly.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We added over $4.6 billion in revenue quarter-over-quarter, about 80% more than our largest increase ever.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
It is hard to talk with enterprises about AI right now without their mentioning security.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
It's why we've built Amazon Bedrock Agents.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Advertisers using Ads Agent targeting see 8% lower cost per impression and 6% lower cost per acquisition, and we've expanded it to 11 new countries this year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We have finally found something that is a real needle mover for us in offering perishables in our same-day facilities that we're now able to offer same-day perishables in 2,300 cities around the U.S.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I'll just add one other thing to what Brian said, which is, as I mentioned in my opening comments, we see the AI business following very much the same type of margin trajectory that we saw in the core business before, and it's a little bit ahead of that pace that we saw.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Continuum uses agents in each company's own business context to prioritize what matters, reasoning through questions like, "Is the affected component deployed?
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We think we have the leading price-performance chip in both the AI space with Trainium and in the CPU space with Graviton.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
In fact, the demand we already have for 2028 is striking.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
At this level of spend and higher, we have clear line of sight to strong financial returns.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We offer millions of items for same-day delivery with Prime, up to 40 times more selection than a typical big box retail store, and our same-day network continues to expand.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I think we're still in the relative early stages of how much demand there's going to be for AI.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We're not done experimenting, by the way, with other physical formats in the grocery side, but we've hit on something with same-day perishables in our same-day facilities that's changing the trajectory of our everyday essentials business.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Finally, it recommends the fix.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
The fact that we have multi-year, multi-gigawatt commitments from the two largest AI labs, Anthropic and OpenAI, and more and more companies, as I mentioned in my opening comments, using Trainium is exciting and promising.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Finally, Amazon Leo is close to 400 satellites in orbit, enough to begin initial satellite internet service this year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We just have an incredible amount of demand for Trainium.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
This is an advantage for AWS, as our Graviton chip is the strongest CPU chip, offering up to 30%-40% better price performance than other options.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
A big chunk of it is our Whole Foods Market business, which is the leading organic grocer out there.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
One is that increasingly more enterprises are building their transformation plan to move from on-premises to the cloud.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We continue offering everyday low prices that meet or beat our competitors, as well as deep discounts and savings during sales events.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We also saved customers nearly $250 million so far this year in out-of-pocket costs, up more than 400% year-over-year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Globally, we delivered over 40% more items same day or overnight in the first 6 months of the year than the same period last year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We are unusually well-positioned for this AI inflection, given our leading price-performance chips in both AI with Trainium and CPU with Graviton.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Stitching all that together reliably is hard, and it's stalled many production deployments.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
People wanted, when they got documents, not to have to read every document so carefully, and to get a summary, and then to be able to write their own analyses and responses to these things, and to be able to do business intelligence through these agents.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
In my opinion, that will be the largest absolute segment, the existing production workloads in the enterprise and new businesses and workloads that startups build too.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
In addition to leading model building and inference services, customers need easier ways to build, run, and leverage agents.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We also continued to expand our ultra-fast service, Amazon Now, which offers delivery in 30 minutes or less on thousands of everyday essentials.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Our backlog stands at $496 billion, growing triple digits year-over-year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We're the second largest grocer in the U.S., and our grocery business continues growing quickly across perishables and non-perishables.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
If you look in those cities, nine of the top 10 best sellers in those geographies are perishables.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Once a data center opens with servers plugged in, we start generating significant revenue right away and then get to monetize these data centers for 30-plus years without having to spend that startup capital again.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We introduced more than 30 new advertisers to the NBA in our first year, and inventory on Thursday Night Football, NBA, WNBA, and NASCAR all sold out.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We find that everywhere Alexa goes, it drives momentum for the business.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Customers love Alexa for Shopping, our agentic AI shopping assistant.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Some of this is born out of what customers tell us they wish they had and they want to be using.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
As we've been saying for 18 months now, technically competent companies are going to build their own foundation models.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Additionally, increasingly more shoppers are discovering products in our agentic and conversational experiences, including in Alexa+ and Alexa for Shopping.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We've talked for a while about grocery, and we have a very large business in that space.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
They want their AI inference to reside near their other applications and data, and more of it resides in AWS than anywhere else.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Unlike other offerings in this space, Q also lets you manage across leading SaaS tools like Slack, Salesforce, Jira, Teams, and ServiceNow.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We're pleased with the customer response to Prime Day, where customers shop millions of deals, including more than 80% at our lowest price of the year and hundreds of thousands discounted by 40% or more.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We're on pace with the capacity build that we talked about a few quarters ago, where we said we expect to have double the power capacity by the end of 2027 that we had in 2025, and we continue to be on that track.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Amazon Q's a really interesting example where we just had so many people inside the company who wanted really an intelligent AI assistant to help them work.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
My view of it is that within the next few years, you're going to have at least a half dozen models that are comparably good to each other.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We have all of them in Bedrock, and it's one of the many reasons why Bedrock is growing so quickly.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We already have meaningful revenue commitments from enterprises and government customers, and we have more than 20 partners who will extend the reach of our network across the globe.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
New agreements that you sign, you always take into account what your costs are and how you ultimately build a price that you agree to with your customers.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
On the other end of the barbell are enterprises who are getting real value from AI in cost avoidance and productivity.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Compared to single sport advertisers, multi-sport viewers are driving 12% higher spend and 17% more orders on Amazon.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Coding agents are a good example, and there are several successful ones, including Claude Code, Codex, and our own spec-driven Kiro, which is up to 50% more cost-effective than others and tripled in usage quarter-over-quarter.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We're reporting $200.6 billion in revenue, up 20% year-over-year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We recently launched Amazon Supply Chain Services.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
In Europe, viewership in the NBA more than doubled year-over-year on Prime Video, with the highest average viewership on record.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I think it's a reflection, again, of customers being very enthusiastic about using AWS, both across core and for AI.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Our chips business now has an annual revenue run rate of over $25 billion, growing triple-digit percentages year-over-year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Data center capital is spent starting two years before we can put servers into them to start monetizing.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We see the margins and returns in AI tracking what we saw with Core at the same point of evolution, actually a little ahead.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
The revenue commitments have increased nearly three times quarter-over-quarter, and Graviton5 is growing nearly 2x faster as Graviton4 did.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Our AI revenue run rate climbed significantly quarter-over-quarter, and is now also over $25 billion, growing triple-digit percentages year-over-year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Q2 was another very strong quarter for Amazon.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Even at that amount, we will still not have enough capacity to meet all the demand we have in 2026, and I believe this dynamic will also be true in 2027, too.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We're seeing strong growth across both AI and non-AI, what we call core, and growth in one is driving growth in the other.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
The deals that you sign, those will be the prices and those will be the agreements that we have over the duration of that contract.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Some of that has to do with just how fast our delivery has gotten over the last two to three years.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
AWS Transform, which makes it much easier to migrate software, is super useful for enterprises.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
On your first question, Colin, we see a very substantial opportunity both for our customers and for AWS in building some of these agentic applications.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We also expanded ultra-low price selection on Amazon Haul in the U.S. by nearly 20x since launch and now have over 6 million items priced under $10.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
That is going to change very significantly over time.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
The core business is growing very quickly as well, and I think there's at least a couple things at play.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I think also it allows us to have more control over prioritization on what models focus on.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
If you're a company that's building important AI applications, you want to make sure that you have the ability to use all the available models.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We think, as I mentioned earlier, it has the potential to be a $1 trillion revenue business for AWS, and we intend on continuing to be the leaders.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We now believe we will spend approximately $220 billion in cash CapEx in 2026.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Graviton is used by 98% of our top 1,000 EC2 customers.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Finally, we make it easy to create, launch, and optimize full-funnel campaigns using AI-powered tools, including Ads Agent, which turns hours of setup and targeting into minutes.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Choice is good for customers, competition, and driving the cost of inference down, which customers care deeply about.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
AI is growing, at such a rapid rate, and it's pulling along core alongside of it.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
First of which is it just gives us additional control over cost.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
You want that leading selection with the right price performance and with the right governance and security, and there's nothing like Bedrock that provides that right now.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Well, on the first question, Brian, we have so much demand right now.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
AI is obviously growing at a very rapid rate, as we talked about, well over $25 billion in annual revenue run rate at this point.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Moving on to Amazon Ads, we saw strong growth across our offerings, generating $19.8 billion of revenue, up 26% year-over-year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
You need a place to store this AI data and to run vector databases, which are also emblematic of a meaningful edge for AWS because we have the broadest and most capable functionality by a fair bit in these core infrastructure areas.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Alexa+ expanded to Germany, Austria, France, and Brazil, and hundreds of millions of customers are using new Alexa experiences.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
That equation is going to flip in the next 10 to 20 years.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Q enforces a company's existing access controls so each person sees only what they're cleared to see.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
It's fifth straight acceleration quarter, largest acceleration in 18 quarters.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Another of these agentic services is Amazon Q, an intelligent AI work companion that helps you manage, search, and automate your digital workload across email, calendar, local or cloud files, and custom workflows.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We're just seeing very significant traction in our everyday essentials and in our grocery items.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
With the leading CPU chip in Graviton, it makes AWS an even more attractive choice.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I think it's actually kind of useful to look at at least our view of what we see in the demand and adoption curve right now, which is we see this adoption curve in AI right now is very barbellled.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Remember, enterprises are still very early in using inference at scale in their current production applications.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We added millions of new products to our selection, including over 700,000 from notable brands.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
My view of it is that AWS and Amazon can have a wildly successful business without its own frontier model.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
If you look at the growth in geographies that Whole Foods Markets are in, they're significantly outpacing the growth of comparable grocers, and the profit trajectory continues to trend the right way as well.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Servers and networking equipment operate on a shorter cycle.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
If the demand isn't there, we won't spend the capital.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We continue to see strong customer response with over 80% growth in growth sales and units sold quarter-over-quarter, and we served over 60% more customers quarter-over-quarter.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We have, both from our own external customers as well as our internal customers inside the company, certain priorities that matter that we want the models trained especially well for, then it gives us some control on speed.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We have a lot of options available to us as we continue to fund this growth that we're seeing in AWS.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We continue speeding up overall delivery and once again achieved record delivery speeds for customers in the first half of the year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
While companies will construct their own purpose-built agents from the ground up, most will also use turnkey agentic services.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
On the question about selling Trainium, we're quite excited about what's happening in our chips business.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Any business can move, store, and deliver everything from raw materials to finished products using the same supply chain that supports Amazon.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Bedrock not only provides the best selection of leading models at superior performance and with the governance and security controls that companies need, it's also continuing to grow incredibly quickly.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We do have an increasing number of customers who are interested in us providing the Trainium chips to them, separate from our cloud, and we're actively having those conversations and exploring, and I expect there's a real chance we'll do that in the future.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
You see more and more enterprises that are moving and building plans to move to the cloud, we're winning the lion's share of those with the capabilities I mentioned earlier and the advantages.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
The number of monthly active perishables customers grew over 50% since the start of the year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I think some of that has to do with the broader selection we have.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Then it takes action: scheduling meetings, drafting and sending email, updating a CRM record, building a dashboard, and more.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Remember, by the way, that 85% of the global IT spend is still on premises.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We grew the number of new customers for Amazon Pharmacy by more than 2x in the first 6 months of the year, and same-day prescription deliveries nearly 5x.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We added 80 new cities and towns across the U.S. and several major cities in Egypt in Q2, and Amazon Now is available in 9 countries and over 250 cities and towns globally.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Revenue growth of 36.7% year-over-year, accelerating for the fifth straight quarter, our fastest growth in 18 quarters back when AWS was less than half its current revenue size.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We feel similarly about the AI stack, top to bottom.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
It's off to an amazing start that we're expanding very rapidly.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We're optimistic about that.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Having a player like ourselves that's always focused on trying to take the price performance and the cost down for customers all the time, we think will help keep the models more cost effective for customers.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We have a lot of demand in front of us, and we're going to invest in this business to continue to be the significant market segment leader that we are today.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
For example, in the U.S., customers who use Alexa for Shopping spend an average of over 40% more per order than those who don't.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
It's also worth noting that AWS has a strong track record of pulling forward break evens on server equipment where we've already made meaningful progress and finding ways to extend the useful life of this equipment without sacrificing customer experience.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Customers also need a high-performance, cost-effective inference service, and that's what Amazon Bedrock provides.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
For same-day orders with perishables, on average, they average three times more units per order.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We see continued growth and engagement in Prime Video ads and live sports.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I'll start on the backlog number.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Starting with entertainment, the inaugural season of NBA on Prime Video delivered strong viewership with a peak of 6.5 million U.S. viewers for Game Seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, outperforming Game Seven on broadcast a year ago.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
There is, on one end of the barbell, the AI labs are consuming gobs and gobs of compute, and there are a few runaway successful generative AI applications like Claude Code and ChatGPT.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
For servers and networking equipment, on average, it takes a little less than three years to break even on that investment.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I'll start with AWS, which is booming right now, and I'll share the numbers, what we think is going on, and why we're enthusiastic about the ROIC equation, even with heavy CapEx the next few years.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Earlier this year, we said we plan to invest approximately $200 billion in cash CapEx in 2026, the majority of which to support AI and AWS.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
When you can deliver items to people, when you have that broad selection like we do at low prices, and you can deliver that selection to people as fast as we are right now, people consider you for a lot more of their total purchases and shopping visits.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I think that there are several reasons for why we saw such significant growth, we're really pleased and excited.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
As frontier models get increasingly powerful, they're making it easier to find security vulnerabilities in technical applications, many of which humans haven't found.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I think it's no secret right now to any company in the world that there are inflated prices right now on some of the components like memory and hard drives and SSDs.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
They'll all be in Bedrock, one of them will be ours.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Shoppers who click a sponsored prompt convert to a sale 48% more often and spend 21% more on average than those who don't.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
There is no easier service for this than our SageMaker AI service.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We also continue to have a deep partnership with Nvidia, and we'll continue making AWS the best place to run Nvidia chips, as we have customers who will run on Nvidia for as long as we can foresee, and we believe strongly that customers want choice.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We've done this before in the first era of cloud computing, just over a longer time horizon, where demand built more gradually than it has in AI.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Over time, I expect that we will continue to sign more deals with customers, and as I mentioned earlier, we're going to pursue the opportunity to continue being the significant market segment leader that we are.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
I think there are several things that are driving it.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
They're going to have lots of different models that actually are comparable in capabilities.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We are quite enthusiastic and excited about the pace with which we are growing the amount of everyday essentials, as well as perishables, in the business right now.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
The number of monthly active perishable customers has increased 50% since the start of this year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
A production agent needs somewhere secure to run, memory so it holds context, an identity so it can act on a user's behalf, tools and data to connect to, and a way to watch what it's doing once real traffic hits.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Same-day orders with perishables average over 3x more units per order, and fresh groceries now make up 6 of the top 20 best sellers on amazon.com.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We also drew 36 million viewers globally for the series premiere of "Off Campus" on Prime Video in its first 12 days, becoming Prime Video's number three top-viewed series debut ever.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
All that said, we are pursuing our own frontier model, and we're doing it for a few reasons.
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That's really how Amazon Q started, was to do research, to do business intelligence, to do summarization.
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They all have very high promise, but there are several others that we're working on, and we think it's going to be very helpful for customers and our business.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Over 350 million customers have used it in the last 12 months, and engagement accelerated in Q2, with active users nearly doubling and interactions up over 5x year-over-year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Growth in AI drives core because post-training reinforcement learning and agent tool use is mostly done on CPUs versus AI accelerators.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
We recently released AWS Continuum, which discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates code vulnerabilities.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Sponsored Products continues to be our largest offering and a key driver of growth.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Customers who've tried Alexa+ are signing up for Prime at nearly 25% higher rates.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
As I mentioned in my opening comments, it's pretty remarkable not only how fast it's taken off inside Amazon, but how many external enterprises have put it into production with a very large number of people at their companies.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
AWS is now a $169 billion annualized revenue run rate business, which, for perspective, would place it 24th on the Fortune 500 list if it was a standalone company.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
Operating income was $27.5 billion, up 43% year-over-year.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
There are two major parts of the investment, the data centers and the servers and networking equipment that go into them.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
The servers currently have a useful life of at least five to six years, and most of our AI capacity these days is being contracted for at least five-year terms.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
As we get a few years out and the revenue growth outpaces the incremental CapEx growth, which will happen at some point, the resulting revenue, free cash flow, and return on invested capital is very compelling.
AMZN Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-30Transcript
And I think it has some characteristics that are reminiscent of AWS in that it's capital-intensive upfront where you're committing a lot of capital and cash in the early years for assets that you get to leverage over a long period of time.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And then at the same time, we're seeing very significant growth in our core business.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We already have meaningful revenue commitments from enterprises and governments, including Delta Airlines, JetBlue, AT&T, Vodafone, DIRECTV Latin America, Australia's National Broadband Network, DP World Tour, NASA and others.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
I mentioned in my letter, but if you look at one of our services, we swapped out the engine of the service while we are also running the service full tilt.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
However, these CapEx investments fund assets with many year useful lives, 30-plus years for data centers, 5 to 6 years for chips, servers and networking gear.
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Monthly active users are up over 115% and engagement is up nearly 400% year-over-year.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
It's always been true and always will be true.
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And we now have over $225 billion in revenue commitments for Trainium.
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And while I think there will continue to be lots of work done that way, I think the future of using these models is a stateful model, a stateful API.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And so increasingly, we see very large demand for consumers to have direct-to-device.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
The service is now available to tens of millions of customers across 9 countries with more to come as well.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
In live sports, we offered exclusive coverage of the NBA SoFi Play-In Tournament with total viewership up 18% compared to last year on cable.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Units grew 15% year-over-year, the highest we've seen since the tail end of COVID lockdowns.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And the models that they're building and the companies that have successful generative AI applications are certainly spending a lot.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We offer perishables delivered same day alongside millions of other items in more than 2,300 cities and towns across the U.S. with more to come.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Rufus can research products, track prices and auto buy products in our store when they reach a set price.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And we continue to expand our ultra-fast delivery service, Amazon Now, which offers delivery in 30 minutes or less on thousands of items.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
But a lot of that is also as AI growth is exploding, it turns out that it leads to a lot of core growth as well.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And in that process of having multi turns, there are multiple opportunities to surface relevant products to customers, many of which will be organic and some of which will be sponsored.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Graviton is our industry-leading CPU chip, which allows Meta to run the CPU-intensive workloads behind agentic AI with the performance and efficiency they need at their scale.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Amazon Bedrock, which is used expansively by over 125,000 customers, runs most of its inference on Trainium and almost 80% of the Fortune 100 companies are using Bedrock.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And much of Trainium4, which is still about 18 months from broad availability has already been reserved.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We have over 30 launches planned in 2027.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
It's early, but the initial response and feedback are very strong.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Our grocery business continues to grow quickly across both perishables and nonperishables.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
On the question about Trainium and the notion of our selling racks over time, I do think that's very much a possibility.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Of the AWS CapEx we intend to spend in 2026, much of which will be installed in future years, we have high confidence this will be monetized well as we already have customer commitments for a substantial portion of it and that it will yield compelling operating margins and ROIC.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
I think it's going to be good for customers, and it's going to be good for our business.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Fourth, AWS is the strongest security and operational performance of any AI and infrastructure provider and start-ups, enterprises and governments continue to choose AWS as the foundation for their most critical workloads.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Whole Foods Market also continues to accelerate with over 550 stores today and 100 more coming in the next few years.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We're excited to make OpenAI's models available in Bedrock.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Zoox has now driven nearly 2 million miles and carried more than 350,000 riders, is available to the public in Las Vegas and San Francisco and is testing in 8 other cities.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We're also making delivery even faster, recently announcing 1 and 3-hour delivery options on over 90,000 items with 1-hour delivery available in hundreds of cities and towns, 3-hour delivery in 2,000-plus cities and towns and more on the way.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Its opening weekend was the second biggest for any non-sequel, non-franchise film in the last decade.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
In the first 3 years of this AI wave, AWS' AI revenue run rate is over $15 billion, nearly 260x larger.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We're reporting $181.5 billion in revenue, up 17% year-over-year.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
So I actually believe that advertising will do well in a world of agentic commerce.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Prime members are loving the convenience of getting fresh groceries alongside other products they're buying on Amazon, and perishable sales have grown over 40x year-over-year and make up 9 of the top 10 most ordered items for same-day delivery where the service is available.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
AWS is now a $150 billion annualized revenue run rate business.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
On the backlog, the backlog for Q1 is $364 billion.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
As AI systems shift from answering questions to taking actions and as post-training and inference scale up, the compute required pulls heavily on CPUs.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And that was really the impetus for our acquisition of Globalstar.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Trainium3, which just started shipping at the start of 2026 and is 30% to 40% more price performance than Trainium2 is nearly fully subscribed.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
AI is commonly seen as a GPU story, but the rise of agentic workloads, real-time reasoning, code generation, reinforcement learning and multistep task orchestration is driving massive CPU demand as well.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We continue working to be the best place for brands of all sizes to grow their businesses, and we're pleased with the continued strong growth across our full funnel offerings, generating $17.2 billion of revenue in the quarter and up 22% year-over-year.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
But we also see quite a bit of enterprise adoption and usage of AI.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Our Trainium2 chip has about 30% better price performance than comparable GPUs and is largely sold out.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
I think we'll be about 2x better on the downlink than existing alternatives and about 6x better on the uplink performance than existing alternatives.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Yesterday, we also started the preview of Amazon Bedrock managed agents powered by OpenAI, the Stateful Runtime Environment that enables any organization to build generative AI applications and agents at production scale.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
It started last year in India, where orders are increasing 25% month-over-month with Prime members tripling their shopping frequency once they start using it.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And most of the model work and most of the AI has been done in these stateless models, kind of tokens in and tokens out.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And the last time we saw growth at this clip, AWS was roughly half the size.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
So I think it's a big deal for customers, and I think it's going to be good for our business as well.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
It's true in chips, too, by the way, is that customers want choice.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
That's why Meta chose Graviton, which delivers up to 40% better price performance than any other x86 processors and now used by 98% of the top 1,000 EC2 customers.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We just enabled yesterday the stateless model, the 5.4 model, and we'll enable the most recent 5.5 model in the next couple of weeks.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
There are several reasons customers are choosing AWS for AI.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
I think we've done a good job in making sure that we're not capacity constrained there, but we're watching that very closely.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
To put our growth in perspective, 3 years after AWS launched, it had a $58 million revenue run rate.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Customers always want choice.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
But if you're not actually working on inventing those right now, I think it's going to be very hard to have the business and the experience leadership that we want over a long period of time.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
You can easily keep refining your preferences and Quick's advanced knowledge graph enables its AI agents to automatically learn from your interactions to become more personalized over time.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Starting with AWS, growth continued to accelerate, up 28% year-over-year, the fastest growth rate in 15 quarters, up $2 billion quarter-over-quarter, the largest Q4 to Q1 AWS revenue increase ever.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
It means that we're really unusually well positioned for the inflection that we're seeing and the type of growth that we're experiencing.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Customers shopping same-day perishables build larger baskets, adding nearly 3x as many items to their order and spend over 80% more than customers who don't.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
In AWS customers can build agents with their proprietary data and strands, which has been downloaded more than 25 million times and saw 3x more downloads quarter-over-quarter.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We deepened our Netflix partnership with Amazon Audiences, which enables advertisers to apply Amazon's exclusive signals from shopping, browsing and streaming to Netflix's highly engaged viewers to reach the right audiences and drive even stronger performance.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
That does not include the recent deal that we announced with Anthropic for over $100 billion.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
I think it's going to have a comparable impact on how we do DevOps and how we do customer service, how we do research, how we do analytics, how sales is conducted.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We continue to find new ways to speed up delivery for customers in both cities and rural areas.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Customers are loving Alexa+, talking to Alexa twice as much and for longer durations across a wider breadth of topics, completing purchases on devices 3x more, streaming music 25% more and using smart home functionality 50% more than Alexa classic.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
They don't have any personalization data or any shopping history.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Customers can deploy agents with enterprise scale, security and reliability with AgentCore, which is being used to deploy an agent as frequently as every 10 seconds.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Rufus, our agentic AI shopping assistant continues to resonate with customers.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Forrester recently recognized Amazon Ads as a leader in omnichannel advertising platforms with unmatched supply and insights for connected TV and commerce media.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Third, as customers expand their AI usage, they also want to consume additional non-AI services, and they're choosing AWS because we've built the broadest and most capable core offerings by a wide margin.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And finally, Amazon Leo continues gaining momentum with commercial service on track to launch in a few months.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We believe that modern agentic applications will be stateful, and this new technology will rapidly accelerate agentic AI adoption.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And that's because when you're building agents, you're building AI applications, you don't want to start a new every time you interact with the model.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
On the Agentic Commerce milestone question, we are very bullish on what Agentic Commerce will look like.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Our chips business continues to grow rapidly and is larger than what a lot of folks thought.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
As we've been sharing, the faster AWS grows, the more short-term CapEx we will spend.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And that's the world I think we're heading to over the next few years.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Prime Day will take place in most countries in June, which will bring Prime members even more savings across every category.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We saw nearly 40% quarter-over-quarter growth in Q1, and our annual revenue run rate is now over $20 billion and growing triple-digit percentages year-over-year, but this somewhat masks the size.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Starting with entertainment, moviegoers have flocked to Project Hail Mary with nearly $615 million in global box office to date.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And so one of the interesting things that has been very successful for customers in our store has been when they ask certain questions, we give them a number of suggestions that are all created through AI.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Different companies will offer different benefits for customers and the uniquely strong price performance that Trainium offers is compelling to our external and internal customers.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We expect to feel similarly about this next wave with much larger potential downstream revenue and free cash flow.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And in part because we have the strongest security and operational performance.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We offer thousands of features across compute, storage, databases, analytics, security and more, and Gartner consistently recognizes AWS' leadership across their major cloud evaluation areas.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
The free cash flow and ROIC for these investments are cumulatively quite attractive a couple of years after being in service.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
One of our enterprise customers just told us, Quick isn't just improving how we work, it's letting us reimagine it.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
As best as we can tell, our custom silicon business is now one of the top 3 data center chip businesses in the world, the speed at which we've gotten here is extraordinary.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We also announced that we plan to acquire Globalstar, which will expand Leo's satellite network with direct-to-device capabilities, and we entered an agreement with Apple for Amazon Leo to power satellite services for iPhones and Apple Watches.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
They have unusual and scarce global spectrum that's required to provide direct-to-device.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
While the largest number of AI chips we're bringing in are Trainium, we continue to have a deep partnership with NVIDIA.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We continued expanding selection, including more than 600 new notable brands.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And then it also afforded us the opportunity to build a deep relationship with Apple, who's going to use our direct-to-device for their iPhones and for their watches.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
It's very unusual for a business to grow this fast on a base this large.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We'll be partners for as long as I can foresee, and we'll always have customers who want to run NVIDIA on AWS, and we will also have a very large chips business ourselves.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
However, in times of very high growth like now, where the CapEx growth meaningfully outpaces the revenue growth, the early years free cash flow is challenged until these initial tranches of capacity are being monetized and revenue growth outpaces CapEx growth.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
For perspective, at scale, we expect Trainium will save us tens of billions of dollars of CapEx each year and provide several hundred basis points of operating margin advantage versus relying on others' chips for inference.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And it means that those entities can't do a lot of the things that we all take for granted today, including education online, business online, shopping or entertainment online, having constant visibility in digital places.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And so we think that Amazon Leo is going to help solve that problem.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We also really like the satellite know-how that we'll get as part of that merger with Globalstar.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
I think it's going to be very good for customers in the long term.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
On the models question, I think the fact that we're going to have all of the OpenAI models available in Bedrock is a big deal.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And just the combination of Leo with the leading cloud in the world in AWS is very compelling to enterprises and to government.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And growing 28% on a $150 billion annual run rate basis is not simple to do.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Customers have used Transform to save over 1.56 million hours of manual effort when migrating and modernizing their workloads.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
It's early, but we're seeing nearly 20% of shoppers who interact with the Brand Prompts in Rufus continue the conversation about that brand.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We also surpassed 100 million viewers globally for the Culpables movie trilogy, with all 3 films reaching #1 in more than 170 countries at launch.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We offer millions of items available for same-day delivery with Prime, up to 40x the selection of a typical big box retail store, and we've delivered more than 1 billion items same day overnight so far this year.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Finally, we continue to be confident in the long-term CapEx investments we're making.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
But I think the business has a chance to be a very large many billion-dollar revenue business.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
First, we've built broader capabilities than others.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And so I like the free cash flow and return on invested capital characteristics of that business in the medium to long term.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We remain committed to meeting or beating other retailers on price.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Nobody has a better set of chips across AI and CPU workloads than AWS with Trainium and Graviton, and we're unusually well positioned for this AI inflection we're in the early stages of experiencing.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
Increasingly, what we're finding with consumers and enterprise and governments is that they don't like to have any periods where they don't have connectivity.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
I am very bullish about Amazon Leo and the opportunity there.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And we recently introduced Sponsored Products and Brand Prompts in Rufus that help brands showcase products and customers make more informed buying decisions.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
But I expect over time, there's a good chance we're going to sell racks over the next couple of years.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We also just announced that Meta is committed to using tens of millions of Graviton cores.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
So on memory and storage and the supply chain, I think everybody knows that the cost of these components, particularly memory has skyrocketed.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And then if you look at the Agentic Commerce experiences, if you look at any of these agentic experiences, they tend to be multi-turn conversations where you're not interacting with one search and getting an answer.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
We will continue investing and inventing to make it so.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
I think every single one of these functions that we all do at work are going to very significantly change.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And what you see with Agentic Commerce is it's a small fraction of what we see with the search engine referrals, but the experience just hasn't gotten great with these third-party horizontal agents yet.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
The number of developers using QRO more than doubled quarter-over-quarter and enterprise customer usage increased nearly 10x.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And in Q1, the average prices of products offered on Amazon.com decreased compared to the same period last year.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
For our custom AI silicon, we've recently shared very large multiyear, multi-gigawatt Trainium commitments from the 2 leading AI labs in the world in Anthropic and OpenAI as well as an increasing number of companies like Uber betting on Trainium.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And I think that we will have a meaningful advantage in performance.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And you no longer have to take as much time or spend as much money building the creative.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
And it fits with what you're asking about on the chip side, which is because we have an unusual collection of chips, we have the leading CPU chip in Graviton, and we have the leading price performance silicon AI chip in Trainium.
AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call2026-04-29Transcript
With such strong demand for our existing offerings and seminal opportunities like AI, chips, robotics, and low earth orbit satellites, we expect to invest about $200 billion in capital expenditures across Amazon in 2026, and anticipate strong long-term return on invested capital.
Amazon Q4 2025 results release2026-02-05Source
I think they'll try and pass the cost on.
CNBC2025-04-10Source

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