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Keithen Drury, The Motley Fool
Sat, May 2, 2026 astatine 7:46 AM CDT 3 min read
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) usually isn't the archetypal institution you deliberation of erstwhile it comes to artificial quality (AI) stocks, but I deliberation it should be. While astir investors absorption connected Amazon's commerce and transportation business, its unreality computing service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), should beryllium getting the attraction of AI-focused investors.
Amazon conscionable posted different unthinkable quarter, and AWS was a large operator of its beardown results. What AWS is reporting should person investors that it should beryllium a apical AI option, and not conscionable the afterthought it seems to beryllium for some. The conception is starting to drawback fire, and investors should get immoderate vulnerability to Amazon's banal to instrumentality advantage. Here's why.
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Amazon's customized spot work is booming
At archetypal glance, you whitethorn wonderment what the large woody is astir AWS, since it accounted for lone 21% of Amazon's full income successful the archetypal quarter. However, that's not the important metric here. AWS has a acold amended operating borderline than its commerce counterpart, truthful gross isn't the champion metric for analyzing Amazon. Instead, investors should absorption connected the $14.6 cardinal successful operating income AWS produced -- 59% of Amazon's total. AWS accounted for much than fractional of Amazon's full operating income, contempt accounting for lone a 5th of its full sales.
That makes AWS Amazon's astir important division, and it conscionable delivered 28% gross maturation successful Q1 -- the fastest of immoderate of Amazon's concern segments. When your astir profitable part is the fastest-growing, that bodes good for the authorities of the business.
Inside AWS, it's seeing monolithic request for its customized AI chips, which are increasing astatine a triple-digit year-over-year percentage. It besides announced that respective starring AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are utilizing Amazon's Trainium chips, showcasing the prowess of these units. AWS is starting to predominate the AI abstraction aft falling a spot behind. As Amazon spends $200 cardinal connected superior expenditures successful 2026, it paves the mode for in-demand computing capableness that volition proceed to marque Amazon a ton of wealth astatine a precocious margin. This is simply a semipermanent concern play, and Amazon conscionable showed investors that arsenic agelong arsenic you enactment patient, its strategy volition wage off.
With Amazon's wide gross maturation complaint coming successful astatine 17% twelvemonth implicit year, it conscionable wrapped up the champion 4th since 2021, erstwhile it was coming down from a pandemic-era concern acceleration.
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