
Amazon's Record Cloud Growth Can't Calm AI Capex Fears
Amazon's Q3 2026 earnings: AWS growth was the fastest in five years, yet the AI capital spending reaction sank the stock. Capex is now the market's metric.
Amara Okafor7 min read
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Amazon's Q3 2026 earnings: AWS growth was the fastest in five years, yet the AI capital spending reaction sank the stock. Capex is now the market's metric.

Amazon's commitment to heavy AI investments and Intel's cash burn warning trigger a broad market selloff, highlighting the growing tension between tech giants' capital expenditures and shareholder returns.

Despite AWS growth accelerating to a five-year high, investors punished Amazon for its massive capital expenditures on AI infrastructure, revealing a market tension between growth ambitions and returns.