Cloud market leader whose 37% AWS growth (fastest in 18 quarters) and $496 billion contracted backlog drove Amazon's stock past $3 trillion market cap; raised 2026 capex to $220 billion while warning of capacity shortfalls through 2028.
Azure crossed $100 billion annual revenue with growth accelerating to 43%; Microsoft Cloud revenue reached $59.3 billion, the strongest driver of a fiscal-year-closing quarter even as AI capex weighed on cash flow.
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Alphabet (Google Cloud)
Google Cloud revenue surged 82% to $24.8 billion, exceeding analyst forecasts of 64%, yet Alphabet's stock fell after-hours purely because it raised its 2026 capex outlook to as much as $205 billion.
Ad revenue grew 27% to $59.4 billion, but AI capex guidance of $130-145 billion for 2026 pressured margins and free cash flow, sending shares down roughly 9-10% after-hours despite the revenue beat.
Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) revenue grew 68% year-over-year, but the company is financing its AI data center buildout via heavy debt ($108.1 billion in notes payable and borrowings), raising leverage-risk concerns among analysts.
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Wall Street analysts / Goldman Sachs Research
Set and track the hyperscaler capex consensus, which jumped to $527 billion for 2026 from $465 billion at the start of the earnings season, and are increasingly differentiating companies with a clear capex-to-revenue link from debt-funded infrastructure bets.