Amazon misses on sales and EPS as AWS grows 39.3% but falls short of buy-side bar
Kr00ney · x · 2026-10-30
Amazon missed on both sales and EPS for the quarter, with shares dropping over 5% after hours (closing at $231.08, -5.21%). AWS grew 39.3% year-over-year, but an RBC quick take noted it missed the buy-side bogey of 42-43% growth — a sign market expectations for cloud/AI compute growth have become hard to satisfy.
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