Amazon’s AWS boosts revenue growth in Q1 milestone
AWS revenue hit $37.6B in Q1 2026 with 28% YoY growth, reaching $150B annualized run rate driven by AI partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia. This represents AWS's fastest growth in 15 quarters while comprising 20% of Amazon's total revenue.
Amazon's massive AI infrastructure investments signal they'll prioritize high-margin cloud services over low-margin retail operations. Expect more seller fee increases and policy changes as Amazon shifts resources toward enterprise customers paying premium rates for AI services.
Amazon's transformation into an AI-first company accelerates, making marketplace sellers a smaller priority as cloud services deliver 5x higher margins than retail operations.
Monitor your seller fees closely in upcoming quarters - check Business Reports > Payments for any fee increases as Amazon prioritizes higher-margin AWS revenue.
Diversify to Walmart and other platforms now before Amazon potentially reduces seller support resources in favor of enterprise cloud customers.
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AWS boom means Amazon cares less about seller margins.
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AWS boom means Amazon cares less about seller margins.
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$37.6B AWS revenue in Q1 2026
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) revenue growth reached 28% year over year during Amazon’s fiscal Q1. That was the segment’s fastest growth rate in 15 quarters — almost four years. It also represented $2 billion quarter-over-quarter growth.
AWS has reached a $150 billion annualized revenue run rate, Amazon CEO Jassy said on the merchant’s Q1 earnings call with investors. In its fiscal Q1 2026, Amazon reported $181. 5 billion in revenue, or 17% year-over-year growth. Its operating income reached $23. 9 billon. AWS accounted for $37. 6 billion of that total Amazon revenue in Q1.
That’s just over 20% of Amazon sales in Q1. “It’s very unusual for a business to grow this fast on a base this large,” Jassy said. “And the last time we saw growth at this clip, AWS was roughly half the size. We’ve never seen a technology grow as rapidly as AI.”
Since Amazon’s last quarterly call, Jassy said, the company has announced new agreements with OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia and more. Jassy also noted that Amazon and Nvidia will be “partners for as long as I can foresee” and that Amazon has “immense respect for them.” Amazon ranks No. 1 in Digital Commerce 360’s Top 2000 Database.
The database is how Digital Commerce 360 tracks the largest North American online retailers by their annual ecommerce sales. Amazon is also No. 3 in Digital Commerce 360’s Global Online Marketplaces Database. That database ranks the 100 largest such marketplaces by third-party gross merchandise value (GMV).
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