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The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational. AWS growth accelerated to 28% year-over-year, driven by a surge in AI demand that is simultaneously pulling through significant growth in core cloud services. Management attributes AI leadership to a full-stack approach, noting that Bedrock customer spend grew 170% quarter-over-quarter as enterprises prioritize proximity of inference to existing data. The custom silicon business has reached a $20 billion annual revenue run rate, with management positioning Trainium and Graviton as top-three global data center chip competitors. Retail unit growth of 15% was supported by a regionalized fulfillment network that allowed for over 1 billion same-day or overnight deliveries so far this year. Based on more than $150 billion in gross sales in 2025, the grocery business has become the second-largest U.S. grocer, with perishable sales growing over 40x year-over-year in same-day delivery as Prime members consolidate shopping baskets. Advertising revenue grew 22% to $17.2 billion, fueled by expanded creative AI tools and deeper streaming partnerships with Netflix and Samsung. Management views the current AI wave as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, justifying high capital intensity to secure long-term market leadership and structural margin advantages. Q2 revenue guidance of $194 billion to $199 billion assumes Prime Day occurs in the second quarter for most major geographies, including the U.S., while occurring in the third quarter for Australia, Brazil, India, and Japan. Capital expenditures are expected to remain elevated to support AWS capacity, with management noting a 6-to-24-month lag between investment and revenue monetization. Amazon LEO commercial service is on track for a Q3 launch, with an expected $1 billion year-over-year cost increase in the North America segment in Q2 related to satellite manufacturing and deployment. At scale, the company expects Trainium to save tens of billions in annual CapEx and provide several hundred basis points of operating margin advantage versus relying on other chips for inference. Management anticipates that the rise of agentic AI will drive massive demand for CPUs (Graviton) due to the compute requirements of multi-step task orchestration. Supply chain volatility for memory chips has caused prices to skyrocket, though management believes their scale provides a sourcing advantage over smaller competitors. The planned acquisition of Globalstar is intended to secure scarce global spectrum for direct-to-device capabilities and has enabled a deep relationship with Apple, which plans to use these services for iPhones and Watches. Stock-based compensation is expected to see a seasonal step-up in Q2 due to the timing of the annual compensation cycle. Fuel inflation remains a headwind for transportation costs, though it is partially mitigated by recently implemented fuel and logistics surcharges for sellers. Our analysts just identified a stock with the potential to be the next Nvidia. Tell us how you invest and we'll show you why it's our #1 pick. Tap here. The AWS backlog reached $364 billion in Q1, a figure that excludes the recent deal with Anthropic valued at over $100 billion. Management emphasized that the backlog has "reasonable breadth" and is not concentrated in only one or two large customers. Management confirmed they are considering selling Trainium in racks to third parties within the next couple of years. Current constraints are driven by internal demand, requiring a balance between allocating chips for AWS infrastructure versus direct hardware sales. Management believes agentic shopping (like Rufus) will enhance advertising by creating multi-turn conversations that offer more opportunities to surface sponsored products. Early data shows nearly 20% of shoppers interacting with brand prompts in Rufus continue the conversation, suggesting high engagement with AI-driven ads. A specific internal software migration that typically required 40-50 people for one year was completed by 5 people in 65 days using agentic coding tools. Management expects every internal function, from DevOps to customer service, to be radically reinvented by AI over the next three to five years. One stock. Nvidia-level potential. 30M+ investors trust Moby to find it first. Get the pick. Tap here.
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