Amazon reports strongest cloud growth since 2022 after major outage

An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services Data Center known as US East 1 in Ashburn, Virginia on 20 October 2025. An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services Data Center known as US East 1 in Ashburn, Virginia on 20 October 2025. Thu 30 Oct 2025 16.50 EDTLast modified on Fri 31 Oct 2025 05.25 EDT Amazon has made its first financial disclosures since the disastrous outage suffered by its cloud computing division that brought everything from smart beds to banks offline. In spite of the global outage, Amazon Web Services has continued to grow, and this quarter reported a 20% increase in revenue year over year. Wall Street estimated that AWS would bring in $32.42bn in net sales in the third quarter, with the company reporting actual revenue of $33bn.