Amazon.com, Inc. announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2026.

• Net sales increased 17% to $181.5 billion in the first quarter, compared with $155.7 billion in first quarter 2025. Excluding the $2.9 billion favorable impact from YoY changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 15% compared with first quarter 2025
  • North America segment sales increased 12% YoY to $104.1 billion
  • International segment sales increased 19% YoY to $39.8 billion, or increased 11% excluding changes in foreign exchange rates
  • AWS segment sales increased 28% YoY to $37.6 billion
• Operating income increased to $23.9 billion in the first quarter, compared with $18.4 billion in first quarter 2025
  • North America segment operating income was $8.3 billion, compared with $5.8 billion in first quarter 2025
  • International segment operating income was $1.4 billion, compared with $1.0 billion in first quarter 2025
  • AWS segment operating income was $14.2 billion, compared with $11.5 billion in first quarter 2025
• Net income increased to $30.3 billion in the first quarter, or $2.78 per diluted share, compared with $17.1 billion, or $1.59 per diluted share, in first quarter 2025
  • First quarter 2026 net income includes pre-tax gains of $16.8 billion included in non-operating income from our investments in Anthropic
• Operating cash flow increased 30% to $148.5 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $113.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2025
• Free cash flow decreased to $1.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, driven primarily by a YoY increase of $59.3 billion in purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives. This increase primarily reflects investments in artificial intelligence. This compares to free cash flow of $25.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2025

“We’re making customers’ lives easier and better every day across all our businesses, and their response is driving significant growth,” said Andy Jassy, president and CEO, Amazon. “AWS is growing 28% (our fastest growth in 15 quarters) on a very large base, our chips business topped a $20 billion revenue run rate (growing triple digits YoY), Advertising grew to over $70 billion in TTM revenue, and unit growth in our Stores reached 15% (the highest since the tail end of covid lockdowns). We also hit exciting milestones with delivery speed (more than 1 billion items same-day or overnight in 2026 and counting), Project Hail Mary (nearly $615 million at the box office to date and the second most successful non-sequel, non-franchise opening of recent memory), and Amazon Leo continues to resonate with prospective customers, with Delta Airlines the latest to sign on. We’re in the middle of some of the biggest inflections of our lifetime, we’re well positioned to lead, and I’m very optimistic about what’s ahead for our customers and Amazon.”

Some other highlights since the company’s last earnings announcement include that Amazon:

• Continued growing custom silicon business while also continuing to offer the broadest selection of compute options
  • Exceeded $20 billion annual revenue run rate for Amazon’s chips business—inclusive of Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro—which is growing triple-digit percentages YoY
  • Secured a commitment from OpenAI to consume approximately two gigawatts (GW) of Trainium capacity through AWS infrastructure to power its frontier models and advanced workloads, which begins ramping in 2027
  • Announced that Anthropic will secure up to five gigawatts (GW) of current and future generations of Amazon’s Trainium chips to train and power their advanced AI models
  • Landed 2.1 million+ AI chips over the past 12 months, more than half of which were Trainium, and announced one million+ Nvidia GPUs to be deployed starting in 2026, giving customers the widest range of accelerated compute options
  • Announced a collaboration with Cerebras and plans to deliver through Amazon Bedrock the fastest AI inference speeds available for large language models, becoming the only cloud provider to offer a solution like this
  • Partnered with Uber to put Graviton4 chips to work on millions of daily rides and deliveries—matching riders with drivers in fractions of a second at lower cost—and leveraging Trainium3 to train the Al models that make every ride smarter over time
  • Signed an agreement with Meta, already an Amazon Bedrock customer at scale, to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores to power CPU-intensive workloads behind its agentic AI efforts, including real-time reasoning, code generation, and multi-step agent workflows
• Announced new AWS agreements with OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, Uber, U.S. Bank, Fox Corporation, Southwest Airlines, U.S. Army, Bloomberg, Cerebras, AT&T, DTCC, Nokia, Fundamental, The National Geographic Society, NEURA Robotics, DXC, PGA TOUR, O2 Telefónica, NTT DOCOMO, Veolia, The Evri Group, Telenor, ModMed, Yotta Data Services, Parrot Analytics, U.S. Hunger, TGS, and more
• Announced the preview of Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, a Stateful Runtime Environment available on Amazon Bedrock for AWS customers to build generative AI applications and agents at production scale
• Announced OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 model is available to customers in limited preview on Amazon Bedrock, with GPT-5.5 coming soon
• Announced the Amazon Quick desktop app, which can query email, calendar, Slack, local files, and several other applications to retrieve and summarize information, make recommendations, compose and send communications, and create agents that highlight or automatically do work. Users can keep refining their preferences and Quick’s advanced knowledge graph enables its AI agents to automatically learn from users’ interactions with others, becoming more personalized over time
• Expanded Amazon Connect to include Connect Decisions, Connect Talent, Connect Customer, and Connect Health to help organizations transform supply chain operations, hiring, customer experience, and health care, without requiring teams to overhaul existing processes or become AI experts
• Launched new capabilities for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AWS’s pioneering set of infrastructure building blocks for developers and companies to build secure, scalable agents that is now used to deploy an agent as frequently as every 10 seconds, including:
  • AWS Agent Registry to help customers discover, share, and reuse AI agents, tools, and agent skills across an enterprise for secure, governed access to agents at scale
  • A new managed agent harness that allows customers to define the model, tools, and instructions an agent should use, and AgentCore automatically stitches together the infrastructure to create a running agent in minutes
  • The general availability of Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to control what agents can and cannot do, and of AgentCore Evaluations for automated quality assessments of agents
• Announced the availability of Claude Mythos Preview, as part of Project Glasswing with Anthropic, in Amazon Bedrock. Claude Mythos Preview is a new class of AI model for cybersecurity and vulnerability detection that has been applied to critical AWS codebases and is available in gated research preview with enterprise-grade security controls
• Announced availability of Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock—Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for coding, long-running agents, and professional work—which delivers enhanced privacy controls, broader regional availability, and improved throughput
• Processed more tokens on Bedrock in the first quarter than all prior years combined, and Bedrock saw 170% growth in customer spend quarter-over-quarter
• More than doubled the number of developers using Kiro quarter-over-quarter, and enterprise customer usage increased nearly tenfold
• Launched Amazon Bio Discovery, an agentic AI application designed to accelerate drug discovery by giving scientists access to biological foundation models, an AI agent for experimental designs, and integrated lab partners for testing, which Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center used to compress antibody design for potential pediatric cancer therapies from months to weeks
• Shared that Prime Day will take place in most countries in June. Amazon’s annual shopping event delivers incredible savings to Prime members on millions of deals across more than 35 categories—from fashion and beauty to groceries, household essentials, and electronics
• Expanded selection on Amazon.com, including more than 600 new notable brands, like Ted Baker, PAPATUI by Dwayne Johnson, Simpson Strong-Tie, Sun Mountain Golf, Kind Patches, ONDO, and Chosen Foods
• Made Same-Day delivery even faster with new 1-hour and 3-hour delivery options on 90,000+ products in the U.S.—everything from paper towels and cleaning supplies to electronics. One-hour delivery is available in hundreds of cities and towns, and 3-hour delivery is in 2,000+ cities and towns
• Launched availability of Amazon Now (ultra-fast delivery in 30-minutes or less) in parts of Tokyo and eight major cities in Brazil—bringing the total availability of Amazon Now to tens of millions of customers across nine countries—and plans to continue expanding the service in the U.S. and around the world this year
• Introduced a new AI experience in Seller Central that dynamically generates a custom, personalized visualization of data, key insights, and scenarios tailored to the seller’s goals to help them take actions to grow their business
• Launched “Join the chat,” a new feature in Amazon’s AI-powered “Hear the highlights,” that lets customers ask questions while listening to product summaries and get answers in real time. “Hear the highlights” has been used by millions of customers who have streamed over 40 million minutes of audio
• Launched Health AI on the Amazon U.S. app and website, bringing a 24/7 AI-powered personal health agent backed by One Medical clinicians to customers. Health AI gives personalized health insights and guidance and takes action with permission, including providing instant care via messaging, booking appointments, and managing prescriptions. Virtual care visits have nearly tripled YoY, with a majority of those visits now via Health AI. No other major AI assistant enables care services in this way, and only Amazon offers up to five free virtual care visits through Prime
• Announced plans to expand Same-Day Amazon Pharmacy delivery to nearly 4,500 U.S. cities and towns by year-end, with expanded GLP-1 selection, including Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy High Dose injectable and Eli Lilly and Company’s Zepbound KwikPen and Foundayo pill. In addition, Amazon launched a comprehensive GLP-1 Management Program through Amazon One Medical that integrates primary care, pharmacy, and virtual care options to help patients achieve lasting weight loss results
• Introduced Sponsored Products and Brand Prompts in Rufus, Amazon’s AI shopping assistant. Prompts act as a virtual product expert, automatically surfacing relevant details and deepening shopper confidence at key moments in their shopping journey. Nearly 20% of shoppers who interact with a prompt in Rufus continue the conversation about that brand
• Added Amazon Audiences for advertisers using Amazon Ads to buy advertising on Netflix, enabling brands to use Amazon’s proprietary shopping, streaming, and browsing signals, to reach relevant Netflix audiences and drive even stronger performance
• Launched Creative Agent, an agentic AI solution for advertisers in Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Creative Agent acts as a virtual creative partner, helping advertisers research, brainstorm, and generate full-funnel ad campaigns from concept to completion using conversational guidance and Amazon’s retail data
• Generated nearly $615 million in global box office for Project Hail Mary to date, anchored by an $80 million+ U.S./Canada opening weekend—only the second non-sequel, non-franchise film in the last decade to exceed this mark
• Debuted exclusive coverage of NBA SoFi Play-In Tournament, averaging nearly 2.8 million U.S. viewers on Prime Video across six exclusive broadcasts, up 18% compared to last year on cable
• Announced planned acquisition of Globalstar, which will enable Amazon Leo to add direct-to-device services to its network, and that Amazon Leo will power satellite services for Apple iPhone and Apple Watch
• Announced new customer agreements with Delta Air Lines to bring free, high-speed Amazon Leo-powered Wi-Fi to hundreds of aircraft beginning in 2028; Vodafone to extend mobile coverage across Europe and Africa; and the DP World Tour to provide satellite-powered connectivity across 42 professional golf tournaments annually
• Completed its tenth launch of Amazon Leo’s satellites, bringing the number of satellites in orbit to 250+, with 20+ additional launches planned over the next year
• Expanded Alexa+ to Mexico, the UK, Italy, and Spain and introduced new capabilities, including Alexa+ Personality Styles to customize how Alexa responds to questions and requests as well as Send to Alexa to share notebooks and documents from Kindle Scribe to Alexa
• Began testing Zoox’s purpose-built robotaxi in Austin and Miami, expanded services in San Francisco and Las Vegas, and announced an agreement with Uber to bring Zoox robotaxis to the Uber app in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Zoox has driven nearly 2 million miles and carried 350,000+ riders in its robotaxis
• Continued making significant progress on safety—improving both Amazon’s Global Recordable Incident Rate and Global Lost Time Incident Rate by 14% YoY, and improving Global Recordable Incident Rate by 43% and Global Lost Time Incident Rate by 70% over the past six years

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