AWS is growing 20% year-over-year and ended the third quarter with $33.1 billion in sales through the first nine months of the year, Amazon announced in its third-quarter earnings release on Thursday. The business segment’s operating income increased to $11.4 billion in Q3, up from $10.4 billion at the same point in 2024.

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit posted the strongest growth rate in almost three years, reassuring investors who were concerned that the largest seller of rented computing power was losing ground to rivals.

A major outage last week disrupted Amazon's cloud division for 15 hours, affecting hundreds of companies and raising questions about AWS' resilience.

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

In its financial results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2025, Amazon’s net sales climbed 13% year-over-year to $180.2 billion, up from $158.9 billion in the same period of 2024. Excluding foreign exchange tailwinds, sales were up 12%.

Amazon's cloud computing division delivered the goods in the third quarter, reporting $33.0 billion in sales for a 20% year-over-year growth rate that investors had been itching to see. The latest performance blew past consensus expectations and marks an acceleration from the June quarter's 17.