Amazon Prime Day $26.4 billion haul and 20% AWS GPU price hike put AMZN in focus
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Prime Day U.S. online spend rose ~9% YoY to $26.4B, but lower order values and ~$7–8B of sales pulled into Q2 may cloud Q3 comparisons. More importantly, AWS raised prices ~20% on GPU-heavy EC2 Capacity Blocks from July 1 (after a January hike), signaling AI-related pricing power and potentially lifting 2H cloud growth, albeit with margin and competition risks.
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Amazon’s Prime Day generated about $26.4 billion in U.S. online retail spending, up 9% year over year, with an estimated $7 billion to $8 billion of sales pulled into the second quarter from the third. On the cloud side, AWS implemented a roughly 20% price increase effective July 1 for certain GPU-heavy EC2 Capacity Blocks, after a prior 15% hike in January. Bank of America said the adjustment could add an estimated 1–2 percentage points to second-half AWS growth as large customers such as OpenAI and Anthropic expand commitments on AWS. The firm lifted its expectations for Amazon’s second-half growth and profitability, even as AMZN shares have been under near-term pressure.
