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.

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

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

The widespread outage last week caused headaches across the industry. But for some operators, it was business as usual, thanks

Accelerating a business at the scale of AWS, which has an $132 billion annualized run rate, is no easy feat, President and CEO Andy Jassy highlighted on the earnings call. While Amazon's cloud-computing competitors might have higher percentage growth,

Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were some of the affected apps and websites, among a host of big names. AWS offers cloud servers that allow these services, and millions of other websites and platforms, to run. AWS is a cloud-computing platform that provides the infrastructure underpinning much of the internet.

Cloud security is now a key component of business strategy, as multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures have become the norm.

Thousands of websites and apps like Snapchat, Roblox, Ring and more were down or experiencing issues Monday morning as a major cloud computing service went offline.

Earlier today, another AWS outage in tandem with a major Microsoft Azure blackout was reported by users across the globe.

Amazon reported its third-quarter 2025 earnings Thursday, revealing revenue rose 13% for the June-September period. For the Amazon Web Services (AWS) segment, Amazon saw a 20% increase in sales compared to Q3 2024 with revenue standing at $33 billion.