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Amazon's cloud system AWS reports weaker-than-expected revenue growth


Investors worried over first-quarter sales outlook


Amazon's retail business offsets cloud weakness with 7% online sales development


By Greg Bensinger, Deborah Mary Sophia


Feb 6 (Reuters) - Amazon.com investors drove shares down dramatically on Thursday due to weak point in the retailer's cloud computing unit and lower-than-expected projections for first-quarter revenue and earnings.


Amazon's shares fell as much as 5% in extended trade after the fourth-quarter earnings report, erasing about $90 billion worth of stock market worth, and were last down about 4.2%.


Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said he anticipated the capital expenditure run rate for this year to be approximately the like in 2015's fourth quarter when the business invested $26.3 billion. Amazon has boosted costs in particular to help establish synthetic intelligence software application.


The company's sales estimate for the first quarter failed to meet experts ´ expectations, even if an unfavorable effect of $2 billion from in 2015 ´ s Leap Day is consisted of. The business said it expects between $151 billion and $155 billion, compared with the average estimate of $158 billion. The cloud system, larsaluarna.se Amazon Web Services, reported a 19% increase in profits to $28.79 billion, falling brief of estimates of $28.87 billion, asteroidsathome.net according to data compiled by LSEG. Amazon joins smaller cloud companies Microsoft and Google in cloud numbers.


President Andy Jassy said the inconsistent flow of computer system chips had actually held back some growth in AWS. "We might be growing much faster, if not for a few of the constraints on capacity, and they are available in the type of chips from our third-party partners coming a bit slower than before," he informed investors on a teleconference.


The cloud weak point happens as financiers have actually grown increasingly impatient with Big Tech's multibillion-dollar capital costs and are starving for returns from large investments in AI.


"After very strong third-quarter numbers, this quarter the growth rates all missed out on. That's what the marketplace doesn't want to hear," said Daniel Morgan, senior portfolio supervisor at Synovus Trust. He said this is particularly true after the development of brand-new rivals in expert system such as China's DeepSeek. Like its competitors, Amazon is investing greatly in expert system software development. At its yearly AWS conference in December it showed off new AI software application models that it hopes will draw brand-new service and customer clients. Later this month, it is set to release its long-awaited Alexa generative expert system voice service after delays over issues about the quality and speed, Reuters reported earlier today.


Competitors Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet both published slowing cloud growth in in 2015 ´ s fourth quarter, gratisafhalen.be sending out shares lower. The business, together with Meta Platforms, gratisafhalen.be said expenses to establish facilities for expert system software application contributed to dramatically higher awaited capital investment for 2025, an overall of around $230 billion in between them.


Amazon's retail company assisted offset the cloud weak point, with the business reporting online sales development of 7% in the quarter to $75.56 billion. That compared to quotes of $74.55 billion.


Amazon forecast operating revenue of $14 billion to $18 billion for the very first quarter of 2025, coastalplainplants.org missing out on an average expert quote of $18.35 billion.


The business reported profits of $187.8 billion in the 4th quarter, compared with the typical analyst quote of $187.30 billion, forum.batman.gainedge.org according to information assembled by LSEG.


Advertising sales, a closely viewed metric, rose 18% to $17.3 billion. That compares to the typical estimate of $17.4 billion.


Net earnings nearly doubled to $20 billion from $10.6 billion a year previously. The Seattle retailer reported earnings of $1.86 per share, compared with expectations of $1.49 per share.


(Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru and Greg Bensinger in San Francisco; Additional reporting by Noel Randewich in Oakland, California; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Matthew Lewis)

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