AWS Q2 earnings report

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AWS Q2 earnings report

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Web Services CEO Matt Garman speaks during CNBC Power Lunch on July 1, 2024.

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said Thursday that revenue in its cloud division increased 19% in the second quarter, beating analysts’ estimates.

The company reported revenue for

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Web Services of $26.28 billion. Analysts surveyed by StreetAccount had expected $26.02 billion.

AWS is growing faster than

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as a whole, though the company is facing intensifying competition from

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and Oracle, as more businesses shift workloads to the cloud and bolster their investments in artificial intelligence.

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said in May that Matt Garman would be taking over as CEO of AWS, replacing Adam Selipsky, who was promoted to the position when Andy Jassy was named

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CEO in 2021. Garman previously ran sales, marketing and global services, and before that, was vice president in charge of compute services, including EC2, which provides raw computing resources for software developers.

While AWS continues to lead the cloud infrastructure market,

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Cloud have been gaining momentum, due in part to early deployments of AI models. On Tuesday,

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said revenue from Azure and other cloud services jumped 29% in the quarter, and last week

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said its cloud revenue, including cloud infrastructure and Workspace productivity subscriptions, also rose 29%.

Companies have started consuming cloud services to deploy generative AI models that power technologies such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. Similar to other cloud providers,

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has said it will meaningfully increase capital spending in 2024. A big chunk of that will go toward snapping up Nvidia graphics processing units, or GPUs, for training and running generative AI models, with the bet that many billions in revenue will follow.

AWS now accounts for 18% of its parent company’s total revenue. When it comes to profit, AWS is far more critical.

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said AWS generated $9.3 billion in quarterly operating income, or 63% of the companywide total. Analysts polled by StreetAccount had been looking for $8.51 billion in AWS operating income.

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