Amazon’s Q2 results forced a recalibration: the cloud unit that once underwrote Amazon’s long-term bets is still massive, but its growth and margins are under pressure in an AI-driven market that increasingly rewards integrated, productized models over raw compute capacity. The data from Q2 —...
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Amazon’s cloud engine is still humming, but the tempo has slowed: the company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit reported mid‑teens growth in its most recent quarter while rivals logged dramatically higher expansion, a gap that spooked investors, sharpened questions about AWS’s AI strategy, and...
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Amazon’s cash cow is showing fresh cracks: a once unassailable profit engine is stuttering at the quarter when markets are betting everything on artificial intelligence, and that shift has implications for enterprises, investors, and anyone who depends on cloud infrastructure.
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The relentless evolution of cloud computing has shaped the past decade’s digital economy, enshrining Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the unchallenged titan of the sector. By early 2025, however, a pivotal shift is upending the AWS narrative. Its growth, once thought unassailable, has stumbled in...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has long been synonymous with cloud computing supremacy, its sprawling ecosystem encompassing everything from raw infrastructure to developer-centric tools. For much of the past decade, AWS was the indispensable engine beneath the digital transformation efforts of...
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