Amazon reported $200.6 billion in second-quarter revenue, up 20%, with AWS growing 37%, its fastest pace since the end of 2021.

An error with the cloud computing giant’s billing operation caused some customers’ monthly bills to rise from a few cents to billions of dollars.

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN has long viewed Amazon Web Services as its biggest growth engine, but CEO Andy Jassy now believes the cloud business could become much larger than the company previously imagined.

AWS moved Q Business, Kendra and Bedrock Agents to maintenance mode. What the retirement of its first-generation AI services means for enterprise cloud buyers.

Dave Brown, the senior AWS executive whose departure Amazon announced this week, is joining Meta to work on its data center build-out, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN ) shares jumped Thursday after the company delivered stronger-than-expected second-quarter earnings , with investors and analysts praising accelerating Amazon Web Services profitability as evidence that returns on artificial intelligence investments are beginning to materialize.

The cloud computing giant said in a blog post on July 29 that compromises of the axios, debug, chalk and typo-crypto libraries were carried out by the same group, known as Saphire Sleet, BlueNoroff and other monikers.

AWS Q2 2026 earnings hit $42.2 billion at 37% growth, the fastest in 18 quarters, but the real story is Amazon's $496 billion contracted cloud backlog, up $132 billion in one quarter. CEO Andy Jassy raised Amazon capex 2026 guidance to $220 billion,