Exploding sales in AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing business, led to a 14% increase in sales in the fourth quarter with revenue hitting $213.4 billion. Net income rose to $21.2 billion from $20.0 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024.
AWS had its biggest increase in 13 quarters, with sales up 24% the fourth quarter, to $35.6 billion. Amazon’s online business had a 10% increase in fourth quarter sales, to $83 billion, and sales in its third-party seller business rose 11%, to $52.8 billion.
For the full year, Amazon’s sales increased 12%, to $716.9 billion in 2025, compared with $638.0 billion in 2024. Net income increased to $77.7 billion in 2025 compared with $59.2 billion, a year ago.
In its long list of highlights for the year, Amazon did manage to sneak in a reference to one of the businesses that helped Amazon get its start, the Kindle, noting that during the year its redesigned Kindle Scribe lineup featured its “first-ever color Scribe” whose new features include…
