Amazon.com, Inc. delivered strong FQ4 2025 revenue growth of 13.6% YoY, but net profit margin contracted to 9.93%. The Q4 earnings report also revealed intensifying capital requirements, which could lead to negative free cash flow. Berkshire Hathaway reduced its AMZN stake by 77.2% in Q4 2025, reflecting concerns over shrinking free cash flow and valuation risks.
Amazon's cloud unit, AWS, said on Thursday it had launched an artificial intelligence-enabled platform that aims to ease access to care for patients and cut administrative work for healthcare providers.
Amazon's Bahrain data center was targeted by Iran for the company's support of "U.S. military and intelligence activities," the Fars News Agency said in a Telegram post. One of Amazon's facilities in Bahrain was damaged and taken offline earlier this week due to nearby drone strikes.
President Donald Trump is bringing big tech companies to the White House Wednesday to sign a pledge to provide their own power for data centers. Trump promised to cut electricity prices in half during his first year.
Tech companies with Middle East operations have scrambled to respond as fighting rippled across the region following the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran. Nvidia temporarily closed its Dubai office, while Amazon shuttered all its corporate offices in the Middle East.
Amazon will soon begin rolling out a 15-minute delivery service for select goods in Brazil, saying the country is one of its top priorities, Reuters reported Tuesday (March 3).
After starting the year reasonably well, tech titan Amazon.com Inc NASDAQ: AMZN has been under pressure since. Its shares tumbled more than 20% into mid-February and were still roughly 18% below their 2026 high in early March.
Markets are under pressure today as escalating tensions in the Middle East unsettle investors. Equities are selling off broadly, from the US to Europe to emerging markets, as risk appetite contracts and capital moves defensively.
Amazon will keep its most popular podcasts on the audio book app Audible but will close its Wondery app and the Wondery+ subscription service months after the podcast network laid off 100 workers in a reorganization last year.
Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) newly announced strategic partnership with OpenAI is a “positive proof point” for the competitive positioning in AI for its Amazon Web Services arm, Goldman Sachs said. The agreement includes an investment by Amazon of up to $50 billion and an expanded eight-year, $138 billion workload commitment from OpenAI to AWS.
Amazon said two of its data centers and a facility in the Middle East were significantly damaged by drone strikes amid attacks in Iran, taking their services in the region offline.
Amazon.com Inc has said two Amazon Web Services data centres in the United Arab Emirates were hit by drone strikes, with another facility in Bahrain damaged by a nearby attack, as Iran retaliated to the strikes by the US and Israel. Joint US and Israeli strikes on Iran started over the weekend, resulting in the reported death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with Iran's response including missile and drone attacks across the region.