Amazon records double-digit sales growth exceeding $200bn

The ecommerce giant recorded a net sales increase of 20% to $200.6bn in Q2, up year-on-year from $167.7bn.

North American sales rose 16% yea on year to $116.2bn, while international sales surged 15% to $42.2bn. 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) sales saw a growth of 37% to $42.2bn.

Operating income hit $27.5bn, compared with $19.2bn over the same period last year, while net income increased to $62.6bn.

Other highlights for Amazon included the expansion of its 30-minutes-or-less delivery service Amazon Now, the joining up of Rufus and Alexa+ to create an agentic AI assistant called Alexa for Shopping, and the introduction of new autonomous robots in fulfilment centres.

Amazon said its results are “inherently unpredictable” and could be affected by fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and energy prices, changes in global economic and geopolitical conditions, tariff and trade policies, supply volatility such as costs of memory chips, and other factors.

It expects net sales in the third quarter to be between $197bn and $202bn, or grow between 9% and 12%, compared to the same period in 2025.

Chief executive Andy Jassy said: “AWS is booming, growing 36.7% year on year in Q2 – our fastest growth in 18 quarters – and our AI and chips businesses each eclipsed run rates of more than $25bn.

“In stores, we again set record delivery speeds for Prime members in the first half of the year – over 40% more items delivered same-day or overnight, with grocery and everyday essentials growing meaningfully faster than the rest of the business.

“Advertising had another strong quarter with 26% year on year growth. There’s a lot to be excited about, and we have much more coming for customers in the second half of the year and beyond.”