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February 6, 2026
AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high
AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption.
TL;DR
- AWS achieved its strongest quarterly growth rate in over three years in Q4 2025, with revenue reaching $35.6 billion.
- The year-on-year increase for AWS in Q4 2025 was 24%, marking the largest growth in 13 quarters.
- Operating income for AWS increased from $10.6 billion in Q4 2024 to $12.5 billion in Q4 2025.
- Key drivers for this growth included new agreements with Salesforce, BlackRock, Perplexity, and the U.S. Air Force.
- AWS leads the cloud market, with more top U.S. startups using it as their primary provider than the next two competitors combined.
- The company added over a gigawatt of power to its data center network in Q4 2025.
- AWS is benefiting from enterprises migrating infrastructure to the cloud and the burgeoning AI boom.
- AWS represented 16.6% of Amazon's total Q4 2025 revenue of $213.4 billion.
- Amazon shares fell 10% in after-hours trading due to increased capital expenditure plans and lower-than-expected earnings per share.
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