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After unexpectedly strong sales and profits across its consumer and cloud businesses, the tech giant said another strong quarter might be ahead.
By Karen Weise
Karen Weise has covered Amazon since 2018.
Oct. 30, 2025, 4:54 p.m. ET
Amazon reported unexpectedly strong sales and profit on Thursday across both its consumer and its cloud businesses, and said another robust quarter might be ahead.
The company’s sales totaled $180.2 billion from July through September, up 13 percent from a year earlier. Profit was $21.2 billion, up 38 percent. The overall results were buoyed by the enduring strength of consumer spending online, despite tariffs and an uneven economy, and by a resurgence in cloud computing.
“We continue to see strong momentum and growth across Amazon as A.I. drives meaningful improvements in every corner of our business,” Andy Jassy, the chief executive, said in a statement. He added that the company’s cloud services business had grown at its fastest pace since 2022.
The strong quarter, which beat analysts’ expectations, sent Amazon’s stock soaring more than 10 percent in after-hours trading.
Amazon had previously warned investors to brace for an uncertain quarter, particularly regarding how much its costs might grow.
More than anything, investors have been nervous about Amazon’s cloud computing division, which has long been its primary source of profits. Amazon invented the business of cloud computing and was long the dominant player. But in 2022, ChatGPT was introduced by OpenAI, which built and operated the artificial intelligence chatbot on Microsoft’s services, and Amazon was widely viewed as being caught flat-footed. Google, Microsoft and Meta raced to find ways to develop and use A.I. systems.
