Memory Costs Lift Amazon Capex to $54B as Revenue Surges
TL;DR
Amazon posted Q2 net sales of $200.6B (up 20%), led by AWS growing 37% to $42.2B and advertising up 26% to $19.8B; diluted EPS was $5.75 but included about $53.4B of non-operating pre-tax income from Anthropic. Capex jumped to $54.2B this quarter, prompting a full-year capex forecast around $220B due to memory-cost pressures and capacity constraints; trailing free cash flow swung to a $7.6B outflow and long-term debt rose toward $129B. AWS backlog stood at $496B. For Q3, revenue is guided to $197-202B, below consensus as Prime Day shifts into June.
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