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.

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

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.

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

User complaints surged on tracking site DownDetector just after noon Eastern time, with most reports concentrated in the company’s US-EAST-1 region.

Amazon posted higher fiscal third quarter profit and sales compared with a year ago, fueled by accelerating growth in its cloud computing business and strong spending by its customers looking for low prices at a time when inflation is resurging.