Publicly defended the raised AI capex using a payback-period framework, drove the decision to lift 2026 spending guidance to about $220 billion, and forecast AWS could eventually become a $1 trillion business.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud division whose accelerating growth (37% year-over-year) and $496 billion backlog is the primary driver behind Amazon's raised capex guidance and the sharp positive stock reaction.
AI lab customer that made a multi-year, up-to-five-gigawatt capacity commitment on AWS's Trainium chips, underpinning demand for AWS custom silicon.
AI lab customer that committed to two gigawatts of Trainium capacity through AWS, diversifying AWS's AI compute customer base beyond Nvidia-based instances.
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Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Barclays
Among at least 15 brokerages that raised Amazon price targets after the earnings beat (Goldman Sachs to $375, JPMorgan to $365, Barclays to $365), signaling Wall Street confidence that the AI capex is paying off.
AWS enterprise customer cited by Jassy as evidence of AI-driven cloud demand - migrated its ShotLink ball-tracking, media, and broadcast systems onto AWS and now runs agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock for automated content and betting-profile generation.