Amazon’s $200 Billion AI Spending Spree Is Lighting the Fuse for Explosive Growth

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• Amazon (AMZN) posted AWS revenue of $35.6 billion in Q4 2025, growing 24% year-over-year at the fastest pace in 13 quarters, with $244 billion in customer backlog commitments and custom silicon hitting a $10 billion annualized run-rate. Microsoft (MSFT) Azure grew 39% on a smaller base, while Google Cloud expanded 48%, but Amazon maintains the largest cloud market share despite higher growth rates from competitors.

• Amazon’s $200 billion 2026 capex plan is demand-led capacity expansion, not speculation, as new AI services sell out almost immediately and the company can double AWS revenue to $600 billion by 2036 while maintaining AWS operating margins at 35%.

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The very spending that has some investors clutching their portfolios turns out to be the smartest infrastructure bet since the original cloud build-out. In…