Amazon Web Services
Compute, storage, databases and AI services.
Overview
Amazon Web Services is the cloud business of Amazon. It opened to outside customers in 2006 and is the largest cloud provider by revenue.
AWS reported about $46 billion in revenue for the third quarter of 2026, up 39% from a year earlier, and $17.8 billion in operating income. Synergy Research Group put its share of worldwide cloud infrastructure spending at 26% for the same quarter.
Reported figures
| Rank on this site | 1 of 10 |
|---|---|
| Cloud revenue, latest quarter | About $46.0 billion Constellation Research |
| Growth from a year earlier | +39% Constellation Research |
| Quarter | Q3 2026 |
| Reported line used | AWS segment |
| Operating income, Q3 2026 | $17.8 billion Constellation Research |
| Share of cloud infrastructure spending, Q3 2026 | 26% (Synergy Research Group estimate) Data Center Knowledge |
| Parent company | Amazon.com, Inc. |
| Stock listing | NASDAQ: AMZN |
| Launched | 2006 |
Where it sits in the ranking
AWS is number 1 of 10 in the ranking by cloud revenue. Amazon reports AWS as its own segment. The company below it is Microsoft Azure with $33.2 billion.
What it sells
- EC2 virtual machines
- S3 object storage
- RDS and Aurora databases
- Lambda functions
- Bedrock and SageMaker for AI
Official site: aws.amazon.com. Background: Wikipedia.
Sources
- Constellation Research. AWS Q3 revenue growth surges 39%, capex stings Amazon’s cash flow. October 29, 2026.
- Data Center Knowledge. Cloud Revenue Hits $168B as AI Capacity Expands. November 3, 2026.