Amazon.com announces third quarter results

• Net sales increased 12% to $201.9 billion in the third quarter, compared with $180.2 billion in third quarter 2025. Excluding the $0.9 billion unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 13% compared with third quarter 2025. As a reminder, Prime Day timing shifted this year, with the event occurring in Q2 for most large countries. In 2025, Prime Day occurred entirely in Q3. Excluding this shift, third quarter year-over-year growth would have been approximately 400 basis points higher.
  
  • North America segment sales increased 6% year-over-year to $112.9 billion.
  • International segment sales increased 5% year-over-year to $43.1 billion, or increased 8% excluding changes in foreign exchange rates.
  • AWS segment sales increased 39% year-over-year to $46.0 billion.
• Operating income increased to $28.1 billion in the third quarter, compared with $17.4 billion in third quarter 2025.
  
  • North America segment operating income was $8.7 billion, compared with $4.8 billion in third quarter 2025.
  • International segment operating income was $1.6 billion, compared with $1.2 billion in third quarter 2025.
  • AWS segment operating income was $17.8 billion, compared with $11.4 billion in third quarter 2025.
• Net income decreased to $20.7 billion in the third quarter, or $1.89 per diluted share, compared with $21.2 billion, or $1.95 per diluted share, in third quarter 2025. This decrease is driven primarily by pre-tax gains of $9.5 billion in third quarter 2025 included in non-operating income (expense) from our investments in Anthropic.
• Operating cash flow increased 29% to $168.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $130.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2025.
• Free cash flow decreased to an outflow of $42.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, driven primarily by a year-over-year increase of $94.8 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 inflow of $14.8 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2025.

• Signed new AWS agreements with Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Salesforce, Oracle, Qualcomm, Verizon, ADP, Stripe, Accenture Edge, Novo, Fanatics, Zoom, Raymond James, Prometheus AI, AppFolio, Instructure, Cognition, Sigma, Lila Sciences, The Biological Computing Co., NATO, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and more.
• Drove continued rapid growth for Amazon Bedrock, AWS's inference service, with Fortune 500 companies spending nearly 7x more year-over-year and total Bedrock token volume growing nearly 17x year-over-year.
• Expanded Bedrock's leading selection of frontier and open weight models, adding OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and GPT-6.1 Sol; Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5; Moonshot AI's Kimi K3; SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7; Z.ai's GLM 5.3; and two purpose-built cybersecurity models from OpenAI.
• Launched built-in web search for OpenAI models on Bedrock so customers can ground responses in current information-while keeping data secure and answers accurate for time-sensitive questions without building and maintaining their own web-retrieval pipelines.
• Launched public preview of Bedrock Managed Agents, which is a managed service powered by OpenAI that makes it faster for enterprises to build and deploy production-ready AI agents.
• Added to AWS's leadership position in open source agent-building:
  
  • Released Strands harness, a fully assembled, state-of-the-art agent harness that developers can get working with a single line of code and build custom agents that can run locally, on Bedrock AgentCore, or on a provider of their choice. Strands harness lowers the cost of agent tasks by 32% through greater token efficiency than other harnesses when using the same frontier models, while achieving equal or better accuracy.
  • Previewed Strands Box, an open source sandbox that gives developers the ability to define rules for agent behavior and access, helping to prevent autonomous agents from causing unintended harm. Strands Box is designed to enforce rules, no matter where your agent runs, whether that's on your desktop, in agents built using AgentCore on AWS, or elsewhere.
• Drove continued rapid adoption of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AWS's fully managed service for building, connecting, and optimizing agents securely at scale using any model and open source framework, including Strands. AgentCore is built for developers and enterprises that need the robust infrastructure, controls, and tools necessary to run agents at production scale. Tens of thousands of customers currently use AgentCore, and they deployed 2x more agents in Q3 than the prior three quarters combined.
• Recently topped a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate for Lambda, AWS's flagship serverless offering, which is used by enterprises like Samsung, Volkswagen, United Airlines, Mercedes-Benz, and Booking.com.
• Launched Lambda Web Functions to allow developers to run scalable, responsive web applications that serve global audiences on Lambda. Web Functions gives developers the flexibility to use a variety of popular web frameworks and iterate quickly, while Lambda handles scaling, multi-region distribution, and active CPU billing.
• Made AWS Continuum-an AI-powered security service that automatically discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates software vulnerabilities at machine speed-generally available. Also announced that it's bringing Continuum into Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, and AWS's Kiro. Continuum is already being used by companies like Capital One, IBM, Infor, Luminate, and Robinhood.
• Expanded Amazon Quick, an intelligent AI work companion, into Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It can also now keep running when your laptop is closed. Companies like Principal Financial Group, GoDaddy, Autodesk, BMW, Mondelēz, 3M, Southwest Airlines, EchoStar, and DXC are choosing Quick because it's built for work, connects to their company data, and keeps that data secure.
• Open-sourced Kiro Crew, a persistent workspace that remembers a developer's context, learns how they work, and coordinates multiple agents to work in parallel and run scheduled and long-running tasks unattended.
• Acquired DuckLabs, the company behind the open source data analysis tool DuckDB. With DuckDB, AWS customers will be able to write their SQL analytics query once and then execute using any AWS analytics service, so for the first time in analytics, customers will have zero migration or portability costs between query engines.
• Made it even easier to adopt its custom AI accelerator, Trainium, with TorchNeuron. TorchNeuron lets developers run existing PyTorch code (which most already use) on Trainium without rewriting a thing.
• Increased selection from notable brands like Banana Republic, Jean Paul Gaultier fragrances, Carolina Herrera fragrances, La-Z-Boy, The Farmer's Dog, and FAO Schwarz by more than 20% year-over-year.
• Announced that Amazon helped U.S. customers save billions-averaging over $1,000 per customer each year for 100 million+ customers-through everyday low prices, deals, free delivery, fuel savings, and prescription savings.
• Delivered its fastest Q3 speeds ever for Prime members, with more than 1.5 billion items arriving same-day or overnight in the quarter.
• Continued expanding its ultra-fast delivery service, Amazon Now, which is now available in over 450 towns and cities around the world. The number of items ordered through Amazon Now is up 10x year-over-year.
• Continued growing its global Grocery business, with fresh groceries and everyday essentials growing about 3x faster than the rest of the store and representing about half of all units sold in Q3.
• Made it even easier for independent sellers to grow their businesses with new tools like Seller Assistant workflows (handles routine tasks like restocking and pricing around the clock), a plugin that integrates Seller Assistant into Amazon Quick and Anthropic's Claude, and the ability to manage listings, orders, and profitability across multiple channels directly from Seller Central.
• Continued to drive rapid adoption of Alexa for Shopping, its agentic shopping assistant, which was used by 400 million+ customers in the last 12 months, with customer interactions up 570% year-over-year.
• Added 100+ new capabilities to Alexa for Shopping so tasks that used to require multiple clicks-like building gift lists, adjusting Subscribe & Save deliveries, managing payments and memberships, and adding new delivery addresses-can now be completed with simple conversations.
• Made Amazon Pharmacy even faster with 3-hour prescription delivery now available in more than 350 cities. The number of customers using Amazon Pharmacy is up over 60% year-over-year, and repeat customers are up more than 50% year-over-year.
• Introduced Amazon Ads Agent for advertisers, bringing together Amazon's full offering under a single, AI-first platform. Backed by trillions of shopping, browsing, and streaming signals, Amazon Ads Agent supports advertisers at every step with insights, answers, and the ability to take action on their behalf.
• Launched Full-Funnel Campaigns in Amazon Ads Agent for all U.S. advertisers, bringing sponsored ads, display, video, and streaming TV into a single campaign. Advertisers provide initial inputs, then Amazon's AI plans, executes, and continuously optimizes the rest.
• Kicked off the fifth season of Thursday Night Football on Prime Video, averaging 17.7 million viewers through six games according to Nielsen, its best start ever and a 16% increase over last year's full-season average.
• Debuted the second season of NBA on Prime in more than 200 countries, attracting more than two million viewers in the U.S. during its season-opening doubleheader, more than doubling last year's full-season average, according to Nielsen.
• Drew 66 million viewers globally for Season Four of Reacher on Prime Video in its first 28 days.
• Exceeded $1.2 billion in global box office so far in 2026 for Amazon MGM Studios, as audiences flocked to movies like Project Hail Mary and Verity.
• Drove strong early demand for the launch of its most powerful devices lineup yet, with 34 new products across Echo, Kindle, Amazon Alexa Tablets, Fire TV, Ring, Blink, and Bee.
• Expanded Alexa+ to Australia, India, and Japan, and made Alexa+ available for free to U.S. customers with compatible Fire TV devices.
• Remains on track to begin initial service of its Amazon Leo low Earth orbit satellite service later this year, and signed a strategic agreement with AT&T, which will be the first major U.S. telecom provider to offer Leo connectivity to enterprise and public-sector customers.
• Began offering paid rides to customers in Zoox autonomous robotaxis in Las Vegas and started testing in San Diego and Houston. Zoox is now operating in 12 U.S. cities.
• Introduced Built Together, a new $1 billion community investment in U.S. data center communities to provide increased support for priorities communities value most, including free community college and trades training, energy and water efficiency upgrades for schools, community buildings and homes, and flexible annual funding for local priorities like roads, fire equipment, affordable housing, and food security.
• Used its logistics network to donate and deliver 450,000+ emergency supplies to recovery efforts from flash floods in Nepal, wildfires in Washington, and a magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Colombia through its Disaster Relief Program.
• Announced plans to hire more than 300,000 seasonal, part-time, and full-time employees across its U.S. operations this holiday season.
• Announced $1.5 billion+ investment to raise minimum starting pay for U.S. full-time operations employees to $20 an hour, and added a new grocery discount and lifetime banking benefit for its teammates.

• Net sales are expected to be between $240.0 billion and $247.0 billion, or to grow between 12% and 16% compared with fourth quarter 2025. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately 60 basis points from foreign exchange rates. Advertising revenue grew 12% year-over-year excluding changes in foreign exchange rates in the third quarter 2026 impacted by timing anomalies primarily related to Prime Day (and a couple other timing factors). We expect year-over-year advertising revenue to grow in the high teens in fourth quarter 2026.
• Operating income is expected to be between $28.5 billion and $33.5 billion, compared with $25.0 billion in fourth quarter 2025.
• We continue to expect 2026 cash capital expenditures to be approximately $220 billion.
• This guidance assumes, among other things, no impact from energy derivative contract remeasurements, and that no additional business acquisitions, restructurings, or legal settlements are concluded.

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