Is Amazon the Real Winner of the 2025 AI Cloud Race? | The Motley Fool

Is Amazon the Real Winner of the 2025 AI Cloud Race? | The Motley Fool

Focusing on technology giants with durable competitive advantages can be a smart way to invest in the current challenging market environment.

Amazon (AMZN 2.08%) has been in the news recently, mainly for its $38 billion deal with OpenAI. This partnership, which involves OpenAI running artificial intelligence (AI) training and inference workloads on AWS’ cloud infrastructure, has put Amazon at the forefront of the AI cloud discussion.

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Over the past few years, Microsoft‘s (MSFT 0.67%) Azure and Alphabet‘s (GOOG +4.47%) (GOOGL +4.52%) Google Cloud have been quickly gaining the attention of developers, start-ups, and businesses. While Azure has been benefiting from its deep integration with OpenAI’s models, Google Cloud has leveraged Gemini AI models and other AI tools to drive enterprise adoption. On the other hand, Amazon seemed to be lagging as it was known mainly for leveraging AI to improve its e-commerce, cloud, and advertising offerings, rather than…

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