Amazon Supplies Qualcomm With a Slice of AWS AI Silicon Plans
AWS is emerging as the dominant buyer of AI compute, driving revenue to $42.2B, up 36.7% year over year, and accelerating Amazon’s AI capacity buildout. Amazon reserved much of 2027 capacity and is signing for 2028, with most AI capacity contracted for at least five-year terms. Management warned early custom-chip data-center revenue will carry lower margins during the ramp.