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AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.

AI revenue and adoption · Q1 2026 earnings call

Consumer DiscretionaryMonetizing
AI mentions
40
extracted from this call
Max specificity
5 / 5
financialized — dollar / segment level
AI revenue
Disclosed
run rate
AI was the dominant theme of the call, with Andy Jassy providing extensive, highly quantified commentary across AWS AI services, custom silicon (Trainium/Graviton), agentic products (Bedrock, Q Business, Rufus, Alexa+), and internal productivity transformation. AWS AI revenue is growing triple digits YoY with a $15B+ annualized run rate; the custom silicon business has a $50B implied annual revenue run rate if sold externally. Management framed AI as a once-in-a-lifetime platform shift and committed to sustained heavy CapEx investment, with $43.2B in Q1 alone.
AI Revenue Disclosure
Amount
15
Growth
triple digits YoY
Method: run rate
In the first 3 years of this AI wave, AWS' AI revenue run rate is over $15 billion, nearly 260x larger.
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Composite
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#2 overall · #2 in Information Technology
Depth · 40%
100
stage: monetizing · max spec: 5
Disclosure · 40%
85
rev: run_rate $15M +triple digits YoY · 4 quant outcomes
Breadth · 20%
100
4 scopes
Adoption scopes:infrastructure_buildproduct_standaloneproduct_embeddedinternal_use
Every claim, sourced

40 AI mentions from this call.

Extracted verbatim from the AMZN Q1 2026 earnings call transcript. Speaker, section, and specificity tier surfaced for each mention.

  • T5Prepared remarks· CEO· Infrastructure build
    Our chips business continues to grow rapidly and is larger than what a lot of folks thought. We saw nearly 40% quarter-over-quarter growth in Q1, and our annual revenue run rate is now over $20 billion and growing triple-digit percentages year-over-year, but this somewhat masks the size. If our chips business was a stand-alone business and sold chips produced this year to AWS and other third parties as other leading chip companies do, our annual revenue run rate would be $50 billion.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsTrainium, Graviton
  • T5Prepared remarks· CEO· Vendor supply
    We've never seen a technology grow as rapidly as AI. Amazon is already a leader and companies continue to choose AWS for AI. To put our growth in perspective, 3 years after AWS launched, it had a $58 million revenue run rate. In the first 3 years of this AI wave, AWS' AI revenue run rate is over $15 billion, nearly 260x larger.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAWS
  • T5Prepared remarks· CEO· Infrastructure build
    For our custom AI silicon, we've recently shared very large multiyear, multi-gigawatt Trainium commitments from the 2 leading AI labs in the world in Anthropic and OpenAI as well as an increasing number of companies like Uber betting on Trainium. And we now have over $225 billion in revenue commitments for Trainium.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    PartnersAnthropic, OpenAI, Uber
    ProductsTrainium
  • T5Prepared remarks· CFO· Standalone AI product
    Revenue was $37.6 billion and growth accelerated 480 basis points to 28% year-over-year, driven by both core and AI services. We continue to see customers increase cloud migrations and scale their use of AWS core services. Customers seeking the full benefit of AI are accelerating their transition to the cloud.
    Brian Olsavsky, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAWS
  • T5Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Morgan Stanley· Brian Nowak
    can you just give us an update on what the AWS backlog looks like and sort of any visibility on the breadth of that backlog beyond the big labs?
    On the backlog, the backlog for Q1 is $364 billion. That does not include the recent deal that we announced with Anthropic for over $100 billion. There's reasonable breadth in that as well. It's not just 1 customer or 2 customers.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    PartnersAnthropic
    ProductsAWS
  • T5Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    high-performance inference with the leading selection of frontier models in Bedrock, which saw 170% growth in customer spend quarter-over-quarter and processed more tokens in Q1 than all prior years combined.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAmazon Bedrock
  • T5Prepared remarks· CEO· Infrastructure build
    at scale, we expect Trainium will save us tens of billions of dollars of CapEx each year and provide several hundred basis points of operating margin advantage versus relying on others' chips for inference.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsTrainium
  • T5Prepared remarks· CFO· Infrastructure build
    Our cash CapEx was $43.2 billion in Q1. This primarily relates to AWS and generative AI as we invest to support strong customer demand.
    Brian Olsavsky, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAWS
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Infrastructure build
    Our Trainium2 chip has about 30% better price performance than comparable GPUs and is largely sold out. Trainium3, which just started shipping at the start of 2026 and is 30% to 40% more price performance than Trainium2 is nearly fully subscribed. And much of Trainium4, which is still about 18 months from broad availability has already been reserved.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsTrainium2, Trainium3, Trainium4
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
    Alexa+ early access expanded to millions more Prime members in Mexico, the U.K., Italy and Spain. Customers are loving Alexa+, talking to Alexa twice as much and for longer durations across a wider breadth of topics, completing purchases on devices 3x more, streaming music 25% more and using smart home functionality 50% more than Alexa classic.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAlexa+
  • T4Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AI
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Morgan Stanley· Brian Nowak
    as you sort of think about milestones for Rufus and Agentic Commerce for you in 2026, what are you most focused on making sure you accomplish on the agentic side this year?
    you can see some of that focus from us and what we're building with Rufus. If you haven't checked out Rufus in a while, it's really substantially improved over the last year, and we have a lot of customers using it. As I mentioned earlier, you see the monthly active users up over 115% in Rufus and the engagement up over 400% year-over-year.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsRufus
  • T4Q&A· CEO· Internal use
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Baird· Colin Sebastian
    as you think about the use of AI internally across Amazon's businesses, presumably the business overall looks very different in 3 or 4 years. Maybe, Andy, if you could contextualize where you see the most opportunity for the technology internally
    if you look at one of our services, we swapped out the engine of the service while we are also running the service full tilt. And normally, that would have taken 40 or 50 people about a year to do, and we took 5 really smart people, AI forward-thinking people building on agentic coding tools and those 5 people rebuilt it in 65 days.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
    we recently introduced Sponsored Products and Brand Prompts in Rufus that help brands showcase products and customers make more informed buying decisions. It's early, but we're seeing nearly 20% of shoppers who interact with the Brand Prompts in Rufus continue the conversation about that brand.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsRufus, Sponsored Products, Brand Prompts
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
    Rufus, our agentic AI shopping assistant continues to resonate with customers. Rufus can research products, track prices and auto buy products in our store when they reach a set price. Monthly active users are up over 115% and engagement is up nearly 400% year-over-year.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsRufus
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Infrastructure build
    Meta is committed to using tens of millions of Graviton cores. Graviton is our industry-leading CPU chip, which allows Meta to run the CPU-intensive workloads behind agentic AI with the performance and efficiency they need at their scale.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    PartnersMeta
    ProductsGraviton
  • T4Prepared remarks· CFO· Standalone AI product
    In 2025, we delivered 4x improvements in Trainium2's token throughput. And since the majority of Bedrock's workloads run on Trainium, these efficiency gains directly translate into more capacity to serve customers.
    Brian Olsavsky, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsTrainium2, Amazon Bedrock
  • T4Prepared remarks· CFO· Standalone AI product
    Our AI revenue is growing triple digits year-over-year. We're bringing more capacity online to meet high customer demand while also driving meaningful efficiency gains across our installed base.
    Brian Olsavsky, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAWS
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    In AWS customers can build agents with their proprietary data and strands, which has been downloaded more than 25 million times and saw 3x more downloads quarter-over-quarter.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsStrands, AgentCore
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Amazon Bedrock, which is used expansively by over 125,000 customers, runs most of its inference on Trainium and almost 80% of the Fortune 100 companies are using Bedrock.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAmazon Bedrock
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Customers can deploy agents with enterprise scale, security and reliability with AgentCore, which is being used to deploy an agent as frequently as every 10 seconds.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAgentCore
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    The number of new customers using Quick has grown more than 4x quarter-over-quarter, and we just announced the one of our Quick desktop app yesterday.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAmazon Q, Quick
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Infrastructure build
    Graviton, which delivers up to 40% better price performance than any other x86 processors and now used by 98% of the top 1,000 EC2 customers.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsGraviton, EC2
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Customers have used Transform to save over 1.56 million hours of manual effort when migrating and modernizing their workloads.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAmazon Transform
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    The number of developers using QRO more than doubled quarter-over-quarter and enterprise customer usage increased nearly 10x.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAmazon Q Business, QRO
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Goldman Sachs· Eric Sheridan
    can you talk a little bit about the needed levels of investment over the next couple of years to scale compute and capacity to meet your current state of revenue backlog? And how we should be thinking about your unique approach to custom silicon and AI infrastructure that maybe positions you competitively to build that scale?
    growing 28% on a $150 billion annual run rate basis is not simple to do. And I think there's few things around it. First is just we continue to see people choosing AWS for AI, in part because of our really broad full stack functionality, in part because people want their inference as they scale it to be close to their data and their applications, so much more of it lives in AWS than elsewhere. And in part because we have the strongest security and operational performance.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAWS
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    We're excited to make OpenAI's models available in Bedrock. Yesterday, we added OpenAI's GPT-5.4 model with 5.5 coming soon. Yesterday, we also started the preview of Amazon Bedrock managed agents powered by OpenAI, the Stateful Runtime Environment that enables any organization to build generative AI applications and agents at production scale.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    PartnersOpenAI
    ProductsAmazon Bedrock, Bedrock Managed Agents
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
    We launched Health AI, a 24/7 AI-powered personal health agent backed by One Medical clinicians that gives U.S. customers instant clinical guidance and takes action with their permission from booking appointments to managing prescriptions to facilitating medical treatment with a real One Medical provider.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    PartnersOne Medical
    ProductsHealth AI, One Medical
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Infrastructure build
    Of the AWS CapEx we intend to spend in 2026, much of which will be installed in future years, we have high confidence this will be monetized well as we already have customer commitments for a substantial portion of it and that it will yield compelling operating margins and ROIC.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAWS
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
    we expanded Creative Agent, an agentic partner that plans and executes the entire ad creative process to Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Spain and the U.K.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsCreative Agent
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    model building with SageMaker, which reduces training time by up to 40%
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsSageMaker
  • T2Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Baird· Colin Sebastian
    where you're seeing in terms of the trend between incremental AI demand from earlier adopters and larger AWS customers versus maybe how the demand curve is shaping up across the broader enterprise base
    the largest absolute place that we see enterprises having success is in projects that are around cost avoidance and productivities. These are things like automating customer service or business process automation or fraud or things of that sort. But the number of projects that we're working with across enterprises and that we're now starting to see to come to production around brand-new experiences, trying to figure out how to reinvent their current experiences, but using inference and AI to be smarter, also very significant.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAWS
  • T2Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Wolfe Research· Shweta Khajuria
    how you're thinking about the increase in price for memory and storage and just the supply chain inflation we're seeing and the impact it could have in CapEx this year and potentially next year as well?
    One of the interesting things that we see right now with the change in price and in supply on things like memory is that it is a further impetus pushing companies who have on-premises infrastructure into the cloud. And it's because a meaningful part, these suppliers are prioritizing their very largest customers which cloud providers are.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsAWS
  • T2Q&A· CEO· Product-embedded AI
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Wolfe Research· Shweta Khajuria
    on Agentic Commerce, if you could talk about how you view the opportunity with advertising. I have no doubt that Rufus could be the best shopping assistant available over time. But for advertising opportunity, how do you view that if agents would be the ones taking action to shop?
    I actually believe that we're going to like this for advertising. I think it's going to be good for customers, and it's going to be good for our business. And I think, first of all, the first thing to remember is the way that our ads team has built tools and agents themselves is making it so much easier to do advertising.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsRufus, Creative Agent
  • T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Vendor supply
    While the largest number of AI chips we're bringing in are Trainium, we continue to have a deep partnership with NVIDIA. We have immense respect for them, continue to order substantial quantities. We'll be partners for as long as I can foresee, and we'll always have customers who want to run NVIDIA on AWS
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    PartnersNVIDIA
    ProductsTrainium
  • T2Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Bank of America· Justin Post
    it looks like you might have access to the full suite of OpenAI models on Bedrock. Just wondering how big of an unlock that is and how focused maybe you are on your own Nova model?
    the fact that we're going to have all of the OpenAI models available in Bedrock is a big deal. It's a big deal for customers. And we have -- we obviously have a very large amount of AI being done in Bedrock today on the models we have and this is Anthropic and Llama and Mistral and a host of others.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    PartnersOpenAI, Anthropic, Meta
    ProductsAmazon Bedrock
  • T2Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Bank of America· Justin Post
    it looks like you might have access to the full suite of OpenAI models on Bedrock. Just wondering how big of an unlock that is?
    the Bedrock managed agents that we collaborated with and invented with OpenAI that we just announced a preview of yesterday is also -- I think that's the future of how these agents are going to be built. It's something that nobody else has, and I think it's very exciting to our customers.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    PartnersOpenAI
    ProductsBedrock Managed Agents
  • T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    just since last quarter's call, we've announced new agreements with OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, NVIDIA, Uber, U.S. Bank, Fox, Southwest Airlines, U.S. Army, Bloomberg, Cerebras, AT&T, Nokia, Fundamental, The National Geographic Society, PGA TOUR and many more.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    PartnersOpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, NVIDIA, Uber, Cerebras
    ProductsAWS
  • T2Q&A· CEO· Infrastructure build
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Bank of America· Justin Post
    shareholder letter mentioned you might be able to sell racks of Trainium. Just wondering with your capacity constraints, how are you thinking about timing of that and how big of an opportunity?
    I expect over time, there's a good chance we're going to sell racks over the next couple of years.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
    ProductsTrainium
  • T1Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Goldman Sachs· Eric Sheridan
    can you talk a little bit about the needed levels of investment over the next couple of years to scale compute and capacity to meet your current state of revenue backlog?
    we do view this as truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where every application that we know of is going to be reinvented. And there are so many new applications that none of us have ever imagined or dreamed we could build that are starting to be built and will be built. And all of that is going to be built on top of AI with a lot of consumption of CPUs and core as well.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
  • T1Q&A· CEO· Internal use
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Baird· Colin Sebastian
    as you think about the use of AI internally across Amazon's businesses, presumably the business overall looks very different in 3 or 4 years
    I think it's going to have a comparable impact on how we do DevOps and how we do customer service, how we do research, how we do analytics, how sales is conducted. I think every single one of these functions that we all do at work are going to very significantly change.
    Andrew Jassy, AMZN earnings call
Q&A Dynamics

What management wouldn’t quantify.

Analyst questions where management declined to share a specific number. The pattern of refusals is often as informative as the disclosures.

  1. AWS AI revenue absolute dollar amount not disclosed — only described as 'triple digits year-over-year' growth and '$15B+ annualized run rate' (which includes all AI-related AWS revenue, not broken out by service line).
  2. Bedrock standalone revenue or margin not disclosed.
  3. Q Business (QRO) revenue contribution not disclosed despite detailed usage metrics.
  4. Trainium external chip revenue not separately disclosed from total AWS revenue; the $50B implied run rate is a hypothetical construct, not an actual reported figure.
  5. Alexa+ monetization trajectory or revenue contribution not disclosed.
  6. Zoox revenue or path to profitability not discussed.
  7. No analyst directly asked for AI gross margin breakdown; management did not volunteer it beyond the 'several hundred basis points of operating margin advantage' forward-looking statement on Trainium.
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