{"slug": "aws-just-had-its-best-quarter-in-five-years", "title": "AWS just had its best quarter in five years", "summary": "AWS revenue grew 37% in Q2 to $42.2 billion, its fastest growth in 18 quarters, driven by AI agent demand. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company's cloud backlog reached $496 billion, up triple digits year-over-year.", "body_md": "[AWS](/tag/aws/)\n\nAfter three years of questions about whether or not enterprises were ready to embrace AI, AWS echoed its hyperscaler competitors Thursday with earnings results that show a dramatic acceleration in demand for its cloud services thanks largely in part to the arrival of AI agents.\n\nAWS revenue grew 37% during the second quarter to $42.2 billion, the fastest that the leading cloud infrastructure provider has grown in 18 quarters. The company is also sitting on a $496 billion backlog of cloud business that has yet to be realized as revenue, which is up \"triple digits\" compared to last year, said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.\n\n## Get the full story: Subscribe for free\n\nJoin peers managing over $100 billion in annual IT spend and subscribe to unlock full access to The Stack’s analysis and events.\n\n[Subscribe now](https://www.thestack.technology/membership/)\n\nAlready a member? [Sign in](https://www.thestack.technology/signin/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aws-just-had-its-best-quarter-in-five-years", "canonical_source": "https://www.thestack.technology/aws-just-had-its-best-quarter-in-f-years/", "published_at": "2026-07-30 22:17:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-30 22:23:26.017938+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["AWS", "Amazon", "Andy Jassy"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aws-just-had-its-best-quarter-in-five-years", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aws-just-had-its-best-quarter-in-five-years.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aws-just-had-its-best-quarter-in-five-years.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aws-just-had-its-best-quarter-in-five-years.jsonld"}}