AWS pulled $128B+ in 2025

Amazon’s cloud arm hit more than $128 billion in revenue in 2025, underscoring AWS’s continued centrality to Amazon’s growth story — a stat making rounds on social feeds this week social post. That scale matters if you’re planning enterprise cloud architecture or cost forecasting: AWS remains the market’s cash engine, not a niche play social post.

AWS accelerated to 24% year-over-year growth in Q4 2025, reporting $35.6 billion in cloud revenue for the quarter. (ir.aboutamazon.com) Quarterly progression showed steady gains: $29.3 billion in Q1 2025, $30.9 billion in Q2 2025, $33.0 billion in Q3 2025 and $35.6 billion in Q4 2025. (s2.q4cdn.com) AWS delivered outsized profits within Amazon, recording $45.6 billion in AWS operating income for full‑year 2025 and $12.5 billion of AWS operating income in Q4 2025. (s2.q4cdn.com) Management said AWS hit a roughly $142 billion annualized revenue run rate and disclosed an AWS backlog of about $244 billion, up roughly 40% year‑over‑year. (finance.yahoo.com) Amazon disclosed its custom‑silicon business (Graviton + Trainium) has topped a greater‑than $10 billion annual revenue run rate, with Trainium2 deployments cited at about 1.4 million chips. (ir.aboutamazon.com) Amazon flagged an approximately $200 billion capital‑expenditure plan for 2026 and said the lion’s share will fund AWS data‑center and AI infrastructure build‑out. (cnbc.com)

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