AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says — but first, it will spend big
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- 40987
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- summarized
- Published
- 30 Oct 2026, 7:42 AM
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- 30 Oct 2026, 3:12 PM
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- TechCrunch
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- technology
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- https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/aws-will-be-a-1t-business-jassy-says-but-first-it-will-spend-big/
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- 5.0
- Created
- 30 Oct 2026, 3:12 PM
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- developerssaas_founders
What happened
On Amazon's Thursday earnings call, Andy Jassy repeated that AWS can become a trillion-dollar annual revenue business within five to 10 years, off a current $184 billion annualized run-rate. He guided 2026 cash capex at roughly $220 billion — mostly for AWS — and said 2027 spending will be meaningfully higher, while forecasting north of 40% AWS growth in both 2027 and 2028 after 39% year-over-year growth this quarter, the sixth straight quarter of growth. Analysts reportedly pressed repeatedly on the spending, the growth signals, and expected margins.
Why it matters
The concrete numbers to carry away are $220B 2026 capex, $184B run-rate, and a 40%+ growth forecast held through 2028 — a signal that AWS expects to keep adding capacity rather than ration it. There is no pricing, region, or capacity-availability detail in this text, so it should not by itself change a build decision this week; what it does justify is treating multi-year cloud commitment negotiations as a moment to ask what capacity guarantees come with the spend.
Discussion angle
Jassy is asking investors to accept $220B of 2026 capex on a promise of 40% growth through 2028 — what would you want to see before betting your own architecture and reserved-capacity commitments on that growth actually landing?