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Amazon Q2 earnings to put spotlight on AWS growth amid AI spending
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Amazon stock jumped roughly 13% in premarket trading on Friday as investors assessed the news.
"AWS is booming, growing 36.7% year-over-year in Q2 — our fastest growth in 18 quarters — and our AI and Chips businesses each eclipsed run rates of more than $25 billion," Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a statement.
For the quarter, Amazon saw earnings per share (EPS) of $5.75 on revenue of $200.6 billion.
AWS generated $42.2 billion in sales in the quarter versus expectations of $40.5 billion in the quarter.
In addition to its cloud business, Amazon has been expanding its chip sales, renting out capacity to Meta (META), OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), Anthropic (ANTH.PVT), and others.