Amazon’s AWS Revenue Disappointment Highlights Persistent Cloud Growth Challenges

May 1, 2025, 4:21 pm

Reports indicate that Amazon's AWS revenue has underperformed for the third consecutive quarter, with softer-than-expected profit forecasts undermining investor confidence. The company's cloud division continues to face headwinds, marking a departure from previous strong performances. Analysts are watching closely as market pressures mount on cloud growth.

techinasia.com / AWS Q1 2025 revenue at $29.27b, misses expectations

AWS's growth rate decreased from 18.9% in the previous quarter.

siliconangle.com / Amazon’s stock falls on light guidance and third successive cloud revenue miss

Amazon.com Inc. delivered better-than-expected results in its first-quarter earnings report, but it followed up with mixed guidance that’s “subject to change” as a result of the uncertainty caused by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. The company’s cloud infrastructure business also…

zerohedge.com / Amazon Tumbles On Soft AWS Revenue, Disappointing Profit Forecast

Amazon Tumbles On Soft AWS Revenue, Disappointing Profit Forecast Ahead of Amazon's earnings, and following two blowout results from the first two giga-cap companies MSFT and META, UBS said that the "fast money seems to be short Amazon into the quarter on AWS and North America sales…

cnbc.com / Amazon falls short on cloud revenue for third straight quarter

Amazon continues to invest in infrastructure to run artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and other clients.

reuters.com/business / Amazon forecasts quarterly revenue above estimates, cloud growth lags - Reuters

Amazon forecasts quarterly revenue above estimates, cloud growth lags Reuters

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