Amazon CEO Sees AI Driving AWS Annual Revenue Toward $600 Billion
Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is one of the world's leading cloud-computing platforms. Companies adopting generative AI rely on computing power, data storage and model services, making AI a new growth engine for the cloud market. Continued expansion at AWS would also directly affect Amazon's profit mix and intensify global competition for data-center investment.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy now expects AI demand to help lift AWS annual revenue to $600 billion within the next 10 years, roughly twice the previous projection. AWS revenue rose 19% in 2025 to $128.7 billion, while its AI business reached $15 billion in annualized revenue, indicating that accelerating corporate AI spending is translating into demand for cloud services.
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Amazon has positioned AWS at the center of its generative AI infrastructure strategy. It has invested $8 billion in Anthropic and signed a $38 billion computing partnership with OpenAI. Whether AI demand translates into cloud growth is critical to Amazon’s competition with Microsoft and Google, putting its data-center spending and investment payback period under scrutiny.
Amazon reported first-quarter results on April 30, 2026. AWS revenue rose 28% year over year to about $37.5 billion, its fastest growth in 15 quarters, or more than three years, while demand for Amazon’s in-house chips also increased. The company continued expanding AI data centers to support Anthropic and OpenAI, but the heavy capital spending caused free cash flow to fall significantly.
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