This ranking evaluates how Fortune 500 companies are deploying AI, and how technology leaders value those investments relative to industry peers.

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The companies on the Global 500 employ 70.2 million people, and their revenue represents more than one-third of the world’s GDP.

Walmart is the world’s second-largest retailer, offering both physical retail and e-commerce. Until February 2025, it was America's largest company by revenue. Groceries currently account for a large portion of the company's sales, but the company also sells a wide range of general merchandise, through Walmart U.S., Walmart International, and Sam’s Club warehouse stores. Walmart also offers health care products and pharmacy services. Founded in 1962, the company changed its name from Wal-Mart Stores to Walmart in 2018.

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With a combined revenue of $21 trillion and $2.1 trillion in profits, the 2026 Fortune 500 is the definitive list of America's largest companies.

Amazon, which debuted on the Fortune 500 in 2002, snared the top spot on the strength of 12% year-over-year revenue growth. It also posted record profits as its juggernaut AWS cloud-services business expanded its margins.

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The 300 companies on this year’s list brought in over $12.5 trillion in revenue for the latest 12 months, with the median revenue figure at $24 billion.

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The corporations on our annual list of the world's 500 largest companies combined to generate $41.7 trillion in revenue over the past year.

Almost $20 trillion in revenue—and a record-breaking $1.87 trillion in profits. Introducing the 2025 Fortune 500, the definitive list of the biggest companies in America.

The 300 companies on this year’s list brought in over $12.6 trillion in revenue for the latest 12 months, with the median revenue figure at $22 billion.

Leaders in all industries rely more than ever on Big Tech—and appreciate the giants that deliver, at scale, without drama.

The corporations on our annual list posted aggregate revenues of $41 trillion for the second year in a row.

Industries included in the sector are automotive retail, general merchandisers, internet retail, and specialty retail.

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The Fortune 500, in its 70th year in 2024, ranks the biggest U.S. companies by revenue.

The 200 companies on this list are transforming industries from the inside out.

The 26th edition of the list shows how much esteem Big Tech giants command among other business leaders.

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The 25th Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies list suggests that tech giants’ peers respect them as much as ever.

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The corporations on our annual list of the world’s largest companies delivered a record $41 trillion in aggregate revenues.

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The e-commerce giant fell two spots on this year's Global 500: Revenue growth, at 9% year over year, was the slowest in Amazon’s history as a public company to date. 
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 	<li>Amazon swung from a hefty profit in 2021 to a $2.7 billion loss in 2022. Slowing growth in e-commerce and in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud division contributed to the slump. CEO Andy Jassy said in April 2023 that he anticipated a “pending deluge” in spending on A.I. and machine learning that would revive growth at AWS.</li> 
 	<li>The company announced layoffs of about 27,000 employees in 2023, with cuts concentrated in cloud computing and human resources.</li> 
 	<li>The company closed its physical bookstores and other retail shops in March 2022 to focus on other store formats.</li> 
 	<li>In July 2022 Amazon announced that it would pay $3.5 billion to acquire primary care provider One Medical, adding the company to its growing health care services portfolio.</li> 
</ul>

The 300 companies on this list are transforming industries from the inside out.

Fortune collaborated with the Diligent Institute to rank the most innovative boards of directors among S&P 500.

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The e-commerce juggernaut has fallen slightly in the Modern Board 25 rankings but still earned a spot for its accomplishments in gender representation and diversity. Its 11-member board includes founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy, the longtime <a href="https://fortune.com/company/amazon-com/">Amazon</a> Web Services head who succeeded Bezos. The board also boasts ex-CEOs such as PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi and MTV’s Judith McGrath; as well as Edith Cooper, a former Goldman Sachs executive and cofounder of professional coaching platform Medley; and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick. Amazon has ramped up cost-cutting measures recently and laid off 9,000 employees <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/update-from-ceo-andy-jassy-on-amazons-operating-plan-and-additional-role-eliminations">in April</a>, following an earlier round of 18,000. It’s also dealing with unionization efforts at several of its warehouses. On the sustainability front, the retail behemoth says it’s on a path to powering operations solely with renewable energy by 2025, noting that several of its AWS data center regions are powered by at least 95% renewable energy.

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The Fortune 500, in its 69th year in 2023, ranks the biggest U.S. companies by revenue.

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The e-commerce giant occupies the No. 2 spot on our list for the fourth consecutive year, though revenue growth, at 9% year over year, was the slowest in Amazon’s history as a public company to date. 
<ul> 
 	<li>Amazon swung from a hefty profit in 2021 to a $2.7 billion loss in 2022. Slowing growth in e-commerce and in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud division contributed to the slump. CEO Andy Jassy said in April 2023 that he anticipated a “pending deluge” in spending on A.I. and machine learning that would revive growth at AWS.</li> 
 	<li>The company announced layoffs of about 27,000 employees in 2023, with cuts concentrated in cloud computing and human resources. -</li> 
 	<li>Amazon lost half of its market value between April 2022 and the end of the year, though its stock has since partly rebounded. The company was hit by a tech-stock rout that also affected many of its rivals.</li> 
 	<li>The company closed its physical bookstores and other retail shops in March 2022 to focus on other store formats.</li> 
 	<li>In July 2022 Amazon announced that it would pay $3.5 billion to acquire primary care provider One Medical, adding the company to its growing health care services portfolio.</li> 
</ul>

Just as it dominates our economy, Big Tech now dominates Fortune’s annual ranking of corporate reputation.

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Aggregate sales hit $37.8 trillion last year—an increase of 19%, the highest annual growth rate in the list’s history.

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2021 was a tumultuous year for the e-commerce giant. Founder Jeff Bezos formally stepped down as president and CEO on July 5, 2021, and Andy Jassy, longtime head of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud juggernaut, took the reins. The company struggled with labor shortages, a massive surge in employee turnover, and the biggest unionization push since its founding. But those obstacles didn’t stop Amazon from growing its headcount by a net of 310,000 employees in 2021. It also increased its minimum hourly wage from $15 to $18 in September of that year. Amazon’s streaming service sowed the seeds for further growth as the company acquired Hollywood studio MGM in an $8.5 billion deal. Amazon Prime Day sales in 2021 reached a record-breaking total of $11.19 billion. And overall, the retail and cloud-computing powerhouse grew revenue by more than 21% and brought in $33.3 billion in profits, a stunning 56.4% increase over 2020.

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Amazon’s board includes an impressive array of directors, and scores high on gender equality, age dispersion, and board expertise. In addition to founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos and current CEO Andy Jassy, the longtime Amazon Web Services leader who succeeded Bezos in July 2021, the board includes former CEOs Indra Nooyi (Pepsi), Judith McGrath (MTV Networks), and Patricia Stonesifer (Martha’s Table, a nonprofit). Wendell Weeks, current CEO of Corning, is also on the board. 
 
General (Retired) Keith Alexander, who headed the U.S. Cyber Command in the Obama administration and is a former director of the National Security Agency, joined the board in September 2020. Daniel P. Huttenlocher, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, has been a director since September 2016. 
 
Amazon’s growth as of late has been even better than expected; as of April 2022, its stock price was up 50% since the start of 2020. In March 2022, it closed the <a href="https://fortune.com/2022/03/17/amazon-closes-deal-to-acquire-mgm-studios/">acquisition of the entertainment studio MGM</a>, a move intended to support its content business. The company has also announced its first stock split since 1999, scheduled to take place in June 2022, which <a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/15/alphabet-amazon-stock-splits-what-you-should-know/">some analysts say</a> will set the stock price up for future gains alongside the company’s significant growth.

This year’s Fortune 500 marks the 68th running of the list.

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2021 was a tumultuous year for the e-commerce giant. Founder Jeff Bezos formally stepped down as president and CEO on July 5, 2021, and Andy Jassy, longtime head of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud juggernaut, took the reins. The company struggled with labor shortages, a massive surge in employee turnover, and the biggest unionization push since its founding. But those obstacles didn’t stop Amazon from growing its headcount by a net of 310,000 employees in 2021. It also increased its minimum hourly wage from $15 to $18 in September of that year. Amazon’s streaming service sowed the seeds for further growth as the company acquired Hollywood studio MGM in an $8.5 billion deal. Amazon Prime Day sales in 2021 reached a record-breaking total of $11.19 billion. And overall, the retail and cloud-computing powerhouse grew revenue by more than 21% and brought in $33.3 billion in profits, a stunning 56.4% increase over 2020.

After a year in which humanity leaned more heavily than ever on tech giants, see which companies topped Fortune's ranking of corporate reputation.

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Total revenue for the world’s biggest companies fell 4.8% to $31.7 trillion this year—the first decline in half a decade.

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Walmart had better watch out. A company this big shouldn’t be able to grow this fast—but Amazon’s 38% revenue growth in 2020 has the Seattle company creeping closer to the top of the Fortune 500. For years a money loser, Amazon earned $21.3 billion in profit on more than $386 billion in annual sales. As the pandemic forced everyone online, the Everything Store won big. The e-tailer’s Prime delivery and entertainment service gained 50 million subscribers year over year, for a total of more than 200 million global customers. CEO Jeff Bezos picked a banner year to step down from leading day-to-day operations; he handed the title to Andy Jassy, former boss of the ultra-profitable Amazon Web Services unit, in the second half of 2021.

This year’s Fortune 500 marks the 67th running of the list.

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Walmart had better watch out. A company this big shouldn’t be able to grow this fast—but Amazon’s 38% revenue growth in 2020 has the Seattle company creeping closer to the top of the Fortune 500. For years a money loser, Amazon earned $21.3 billion in profit on more than $386 billion in annual sales. As the pandemic forced everyone online, the Everything Store won big. The e-tailer’s Prime delivery and entertainment service gained 50 million subscribers year over year, for a total of more than 200 million global customers. CEO Jeff Bezos picked a banner year to step down from leading day-to-day operations; he’ll be handing the title to Andy Jassy, currently boss of the ultra-profitable Amazon Web Services unit, in the second half of 2021.

Collectively, the ranked companies produced a three-year average shareholder return of 33%, vs. 19% for the S&P 500.

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For an astounding 13th straight year, Apple claims the top spot in Fortune’s annual ranking of corporate reputation, based on a survey of almost 3,800 executives, directors, and analysts.

This year's Fortune Global 500 generated $33.3 trillion in revenues and $2.1 trillion in profits.

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A company this big shouldn’t be able to grow this fast—but Amazon’s 21% revenue growth in 2019, to $281 billion, is the reason the Seattle company has moved up four spots on the Global 500. For years a money loser, Amazon earned $11.6 billion in profit on more than $280 billion in annual sales. Key drivers for the so-called Everything Store’s growth? Its consumer bundle keeps expanding. And its Prime delivery and entertainment subscription service counts more than 150 million global customers. As in prior years, the company’s Amazon Web Services unit outpaced the company as a whole, growing revenue at a 37% clip to $35 billion. More recently, the novel coronavirus pandemic accelerated many of the company's big bets: In the company's fiscal second quarter alone (ended June 30, 2020), sales leapt up 40%, year over year, to $88.9 billion. Profits for the quarter, meanwhile, doubled, to $5.2 billion.

Explore this year's ranking of the 50 companies with the best long-term growth potential.

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E-commerce and cloud-storage giant Amazon has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of changing consumer behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its sales jumped 35% to more than $260 billion in the first nine months of 2020, as people stopped going to stores and spent more online. The company’s market-leading cloud-computing division, Amazon Web Services, has also benefited in 2020 as the hosting platform for everything from Netflix to Zoom.

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This year's Fortune 500 marks the 66th running of the list.

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A company this big shouldn’t be able to grow this fast—but Amazon’s 21% revenue growth in 2019, to $281 billion, is the reason the Seattle company has catapulted to No. 2 on the Fortune 500. It's now ranked behind only its greatest rival and the world’s biggest retailer: Walmart. For years a money loser, Amazon earned $11.6 billion in profit on more than $280 billion in annual sales. Key drivers for the so-called Everything Store’s growth is that its consumer bundle keeps expanding. Its Prime delivery and entertainment subscription service counts more than 150 million global customers. As in prior years, the company’s Amazon Web Services unit outpaced the company as a whole, growing revenue at a 37% clip to $35 billion.

Collectively, the ranked companies produced a three-year average shareholder return of 19%, vs. 11% for the S&P 500.

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Global business is back. After limping through a worldwide financial crisis and economic slowdown, the 500 largest companies ranked by revenues shattered all sorts of performance records in 2013: They racked up combined revenues of $31.1 trillion, up 2.5% from 2012, and profits soared 27% to nearly $2 trillion. China’s 95 companies (up from 89 last year) posted $5.8 trillion in revenues. The U.S. has four fewer companies on the list than last year but remains (for now) the country leader, with 128 corporations on the list—including No. 1 Wal-Mart Stores—reporting $8.6 trillion in revenues. 

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Amazon.com was incorporated in 1994; in 2026, it became the world's biggest company by revenue. It is the largest e-commerce retailer in the U.S. and a player in the grocery business, owing in part to its ownership of the Whole Foods supermarket chain. The company offers cloud services through its Amazon Web Services segment. Amazon develops and produces media content, much of which it streams through its Amazon Prime membership program; in 2021, it acquired the studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Amazon also makes and sells electronic devices including the Kindle e-book reader and Echo “smart speaker.”

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Thank you for standing by. Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Amazon.com third quarter 2025 financial results teleconference. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Today's call is being recorded, and for opening remarks, I'll be turning the call over to the Vice President of Investor Relations, Mr. Dave Fildes. Thank you, sir. Please go ahead.

Hello, and welcome to our Q3 2025 financial results conference call. Joining us today to answer your questions is Andy Jassy, our CEO, and Brian Olsavsky, our CFO. As you listen to today's conference call, we encourage you to have a press release in front of you, which includes our financial results, as well as metrics and commentary on the quarter. Please note, unless otherwise stated, all comparisons in this call will be against our results for the comparable period of 2024. Our comments and responses to your questions reflect management's views as of today, October 30th, 2025, only, and will include forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially. Additional information about factors that could potentially impact our financial results is included in today's press release and our filings with the SEC, including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

During this call, we may discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures in our press release, slides accompanying this webcast, and our filings with the SEC, each of which is posted on our IR website. You will find additional disclosures regarding these non-GAAP measures, including reconciliations of these measures with comparable GAAP measures. Our guidance incorporates the order trends that we've seen to date and what we believe today to be appropriate assumptions. Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, including fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic and geopolitical conditions, tariff and trade policies, and customer demand and spending, including the impact of recessionary fears, inflation, interest rates, regional labor market constraints, world events, the rate of growth of the internet, online commerce, cloud services, and new and emerging technologies, and the various factors detailed in our filings with the SEC.

Our guidance assumes, among other things, that we don't conclude any additional business acquisitions, restructurings, or legal settlements. It's not possible to accurately predict demand for our goods and services, and therefore our actual results could differ materially from our guidance. Now I'll turn the call over to Andy.

Thanks, Dave. We saw strong growth across our business in Q3, and we're reporting $180.2 billion in revenue, up 12% year-over-year, excluding the impact from foreign exchange rates. Operating income was $17.4 billion, but would have been over $21 billion if not for two special Q3 expenses: $2.5 billion for an FTC settlement and $1.8 billion for estimated severance costs. Trailing 12-month free cash flow was $14.8 billion. I'll start with AWS. AWS is growing at a pace we haven't seen since 2022, re-accelerating to 20.2% year-over-year, our largest growth rate in 11 quarters. It's worth remembering that year-over-year % growth is a relative term. It's very different having 20% year-over-year growth on a $132 billion annualized run rate than to have a higher % growth rate on a meaningfully smaller annual revenue, which is the case with our competitors.

Backlog grew to $200 billion by Q3 quarter end and doesn't include several unannounced new deals in October, which together are more than our total deal volume for all of Q3. AWS is gaining momentum. Customers want to be running their core and AI workloads in AWS, given its stronger functionality, security, and operational performance. The scale I see in front of us gives me significant confidence in what lies ahead. I'll share a little more detail on why. It starts with AWS having much broader infrastructure functionality. Startups, enterprises, and governments want to move their production workloads to the place that has the broadest and deepest array of capabilities. AWS has more services and deeper features within those services than anybody else and continues to innovate at a rapid clip.

These are key building blocks for anything that customers want to create, and they're a big part of why Gartner has named AWS leader in its strategic cloud platform services, Magic Quadrant, for 15 consecutive years. We're bringing the same building block approach to AI. SageMaker makes it much simpler for companies to build and deploy their own foundation models. Bedrock gives customers leading selection of foundation models and superior price performance to deploy inference into their next-generation applications. A lot of the future value companies will get from AI will be in the form of agents. AWS is heavily investing in this area and well-positioned to be a leader. Companies will both create their own agents and use agents from other companies. For those building their own, it's been harder to build than it should be.

It's why we launched Strands to make it much easier to create agents from any foundation model that builders desire. For companies who've successfully built agents, they've hesitated putting them into production because they lack secure, scalable runtime services, or memory or observability built specifically for agents. It's why we launched AgentCore, a set of infrastructure building blocks that allow builders to deploy secure, scalable agents. Ericsson used AgentCore to deliver AI agents across their workforce. Sony used it to build an agentic AI platform with enterprise-level security, observability, and scalability. Cohere Health is using AgentCore to deploy agents that will reduce medical review times by up to 30%-40%. AgentCore's SDK has already been downloaded over a million times, and our builders are excited about it. It's an enabler.

Companies will also use others' agents, and AWS continues to build many of the agents we believe builders will use in the future. For coding, we've recently opened up our agentic coding IDE called Kiro. More than 100,000 developers jumped into Kiro in just the first few days of preview, and that number has more than doubled since. It's processed trillions of tokens thus far, weekly actives are growing fast, and developers love its unique spec and tool calling capabilities. For migration and transformation, we offer an agent called Transform. Year to date, customers have already used it to save 700,000 hours of manual effort, the equivalent of 335 developer years of work. For example, Thomson Reuters used it to transform 1.5 million lines of code per month, moving from Windows to open-source alternatives and completing tasks four times faster than with other migration tools.

Customers have also already used Transform to analyze nearly a billion lines of mainframe code as they move mainframe applications to the cloud. For business customers, we've recently launched Quick Suite to bring a consumer AI-like experience to work, making it easy to find insights, conduct deep research, automate tasks, visualize data, and take actions. We've already seen users turn months-long projects into days, get 80%+ time savings on complex tasks, and realize 90%+ cost savings. For contact centers, we offer Amazon Connect, which creates a more personalized and efficient experience for contact center agents, managers, and their customers. Connect has recently crested a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, with 12 billion minutes of customer interactions being handled by AI in the last year and is being used by large enterprises like Capital One, Toyota, American Airlines, and Ryanair.

These are real, practical results for customers, and there are many more examples like them. Because of its advantaged capabilities, security, operational performance, and customer focus, AWS continues to earn most of the big enterprise and government transformations to the cloud. As a result, AWS is where the preponderance of companies' data and workloads reside and part of why most companies want to run AI in AWS. To enable customers to do so, we need to have the requisite capacity, and we've been focused on accelerating capacity the last several months, adding more than 3.8 GW of power in the past 12 months, more than any other cloud provider. To put that into perspective, we're now double the power capacity that AWS was in 2022, and we're on track to double again by 2027.

In the last quarter of this year alone, we expect to add at least another 1 GW of power. This capacity consists of power, data center, and chips, primarily our custom silicon Trainium and NVIDIA. We've recently brought Project Rainier online, our massive AI compute cluster spanning multiple U.S. data centers and containing nearly 500,000 of our Trainium2 chips. Anthropic is using it now to build and deploy its industry-leading AI model, Claude, which we expect to be on more than 1 million Trainium2 chips by year-end. Trainium2 continues to see strong adoption, is fully subscribed, and is now a multi-billion-dollar business that grew 150% quarter-over-quarter. Today, Trainium is being used by a small number of very large customers, but we expect to accommodate more customers starting with Trainium3.

We're building Bedrock to be the biggest inference engine in the world, and in the long run, believe Bedrock could be as big a business for AWS as EC2, and the majority of token usage in Amazon Bedrock is already running on Trainium. We're also continuing to work closely with chip partners like NVIDIA, with whom we continue to order very significant amounts, as well as with AMD and Intel. These are very important partners with whom we expect to keep growing our relationships over time. You're going to see us continue to be very aggressive investing in capacity because we see the demand. As fast as we're adding capacity right now, we're monetizing it. It's still quite early and represents an unusual opportunity for customers in AWS.

I'll now turn to stores, where the team continues to deliver and innovate for customers across our key priorities: selection, low prices, and convenience, particularly fast delivery. We're offering 14% more selection since last quarter from popular brands like The North Face and Charlotte Tilbury, and we've added hundreds of thousands of items from popular brands this year. Everyday essentials continues to grow quickly, and year to date is growing nearly twice as fast as the rest of the business. We continue to make it easier for customers to order low-priced perishable groceries from Amazon, and customers in more than 1,000 cities and towns now can shop fresh groceries alongside millions of Amazon.com products with free same-day delivery. This is a game changer for customers who can now order milk alongside electronics, check out with one card, and have everything delivered to their doorstep within hours.

The team also invented a new add-to-delivery button that lets customers add items to previously scheduled orders, and it's been used more than 80 million times since launch, and it just launched. It's an example of one of those seemingly simple but powerful innovations that make customers' lives easier. We remain committed to staying sharp on price and meeting or beating prices of other major retailers. In July, we had our biggest Prime Day event ever, with customers saving billions of dollars across more than 35 categories. We continue to break records on speed. We're on track to deliver at our fastest speeds ever for Prime members globally once again this year, and we've started rolling out three-hour delivery in select U.S. cities. We're also continuing to invest in infrastructure to speed up rural deliveries and serve more customers in more communities.

That includes committing over $4 billion to expand our rural delivery network across the U.S. These are small towns where people want fast delivery, but where other companies have been backing out and reducing service. In contrast, we've already increased the number of rural communities with access to our same-day and next-day delivery by 60%, reaching roughly half of the total communities we plan to expand to by the end of the year. The stores team is also innovating rapidly with AI. For example, Rufus, our AI-powered shopping assistant, has had 250 million active customers this year, with monthly users up 140% year-over-year, interactions up 210% year-over-year, and customers using Rufus during a shopping trip being 60% more likely to complete a purchase. Rufus is on track to deliver over $10 billion in incremental annualized sales. Here are the highlights.

Our generative AI-powered audio feature that combines product summaries and reviews to make shopping easier has expanded from hundreds of products at launch to millions of products, and millions of customers have used it, streaming almost 3 million minutes. Amazon Lens, an AI-powered visual search tool that lets customers find products with their phone's camera, a screenshot, or a barcode, now includes Lens Live, which instantly scans products and shows real-time matches in a swipeable carousel. Tens of millions of customers are using Amazon Lens each month. Moving on to Amazon Ads, we're pleased with the continued strong growth, generating $17.6 billion of revenue in the quarter and growing 22% year-over-year. We see strength across our broad portfolio of full-funnel advertising offerings that helps advertisers reach an average ad-supported audience of more than 300 million in the U.S. alone.

We also continue to be excited about our demand-side platform, Amazon DSP, which lets advertisers plan, activate, and measure full-funnel investments. Last quarter, I mentioned our partnership with Roku, and we've built on that with a partnership with Netflix, providing advertisers using Amazon DSP with direct access to Netflix's premium ad inventory. We announced integrations with Spotify and SiriusXM. With Spotify, we provide advertisers with direct programmatic access to a global audience of more than 400 million monthly ad-supported listeners. With SiriusXM, brands can reach 160 million monthly digital listeners across services like Pandora and SoundCloud. We're excited about the advertising opportunity around Prime Video Live Sports. Live Sports got a lot of interest from advertisers in upfront negotiations for 2025-2026, and we exceeded our own expectations for upfront commitments with significant growth across the board. Finally, we're continuing to innovate for advertisers with AI.

For example, in September, we announced an agentic AI tool in Creative Studio that plans and executes the entire creative process in a matter of hours instead of weeks. We're also inventing and seeing strong momentum in several other areas, and I'll mention just a few. In Prime Video Live Sports, NBA on Prime tipped off last week, and our opening night doubleheader averaged 1.25 million viewers in the U.S., a double-digit increase over last season on cable. You'll see us bring the same constant innovation here that we brought to our NFL broadcasts. We're adding golf with the Masters in 2026 and a new skins competition with the PGA Tour on Black Friday this year. We've added Peacock and FOX One to Prime Video's add-on subscription offering of over 100 channels in the U.S. We continue to be energized by the response to Alexa+.

Compared to what we call the classic Alexa experience, Alexa+ customers are talking to Alexa 2x more, those interactions are much longer, and they're covering a broader range of topics. They're using Alexa+ on Fire TV at 2.5x the rate of Classic, using natural conversation to discover audio content four times more, engaging with photos 4x more, and customers are completing 4x more shopping conversations that end in a purchase. We've expanded the number of Project Kuiper satellites in space to more than 150 and delivered over 1 Gbps speeds in tests with our enterprise-grade customer terminal, the first commercial phased array we know of to clear that threshold. Finally, Zoox Robotaxi are available to riders in Las Vegas, and we've announced Washington, D.C., as the eighth testing location. We're excited for these to continue rolling out to more riders.

Q4 is one of our busiest and most energizing times of the year, and we're excited about the continued demand for AWS, the innovations we'll announce to re:Invent in December, the positive customer response to our AI-powered experiences, all the gifts we'll be delivering throughout the holiday season, and a lot more. Thanks in advance to our teammates around the world who are gearing up to deliver for customers once again. With that, I'll turn it over to Brian for a financial update.

Thanks, Andy. Starting with our top-line financial results, worldwide revenue was $180.2 billion, a 12% increase year-over-year, excluding a 90 basis point favorable impact of foreign exchange. In Q3, we reported worldwide operating income of $17.4 billion. This operating income includes two special charges, which reduced operating income by $4.3 billion.

The first charge, of $2.5 billion, is related to a legal settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which impacts the North America segment and is recorded in the other operating expense line. The second charge, of $1.8 billion, relates to severance costs for role eliminations and impacts all three of our segments. The severance charge is recorded primarily in the technology and infrastructure, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expense line items. Excluding these two charges, worldwide operating income would have been $21.7 billion, or $1.2 billion above the high end of our guidance range. Moving to our segment results, we remain encouraged by the innovation our teams are delivering for customers across all three segments. In the North America segment, third-quarter revenue was $106.3 billion, an increase of 11% year-over-year. International segment revenue was $40.9 billion, an increase of 10% year-over-year, excluding the impact of foreign exchange.

Worldwide paid units grew 11% year-over-year. We continue to prioritize the inputs that matter most to our customers. In the third quarter, our sharp pricing, broad selection, and fast delivery speeds continued to resonate with customers. Customers appreciate the ability to quickly receive items essential for their daily needs, including perishable groceries, and have them delivered in the same day. Our millions of global third-party sellers continue to be important contributors to our vast selection, which helps customers find the items they need at competitive prices. We're committed to building innovative services and features for our sellers, including our ongoing advancements in generative AI. Today, more than 1.3 million sellers have used our generative AI capabilities to more quickly launch high-quality listings. Better listings translate into better traction with customers, and in Q3, worldwide third-party seller unit mix was 62%, up 200 basis points from Q3 of last year.

Shifting to profitability, North America segment operating income was $4.8 billion, with an operating margin of 4.5%. Excluding the $2.5 billion charge related to the legal settlement with the FTC, North America segment operating income would have been $7.3 billion, with an operating margin of 6.9%. North America segment operating margin also includes a portion of the severance charge. International segment operating income was $1.2 billion, with an operating margin of 2.9%. Excluding the impact of the severance charge, International segment operating margins expanded year-over-year. Globally, our progress on key inputs is delivering a better customer experience while driving a more efficient cost structure. For example, we're making notable strides in improving inventory placement to speed up delivery to customers. For the third year in a row, we are on track to deliver our fastest speeds ever for Prime members in 2025.

We continue to tune and improve our fulfillment operations, and our regionalized network is operating at scale. We see many benefits from our inbound process improvements, including a reduction of U.S. inbound lead time by nearly four days compared to last year. This allows us to be more efficient with our inventory purchasing, which benefits working capital. We're also placing inventory more strategically throughout the network. By leveraging our existing infrastructure, we're now offering U.S. customers the ability to order perishable groceries and receive them the same day in as little as five hours. We're seeing positive early results. Since launching in January, when customers start shopping fresh groceries on Amazon, they are visiting the site more often and returning twice as often as non-perishable shoppers. Looking ahead, we see further opportunity to improve productivity in our global fulfillment and transportation network.

We will continue to improve inventory placement to drive down distance traveled and touches per package. We will also build on the gains from our regionalized network through algorithmic improvements, as well as launching robotics and automation. While operating margin may fluctuate quarter to quarter, we have a deliberate approach to achieve sustained progress over the long term. Shifting to advertising. Advertising revenue was $17.7 billion, and growth accelerated for the third consecutive quarter. We continue to see strong growth on an increasingly large base as our full-funnel advertising approach of connecting brands with customers is resonating. Moving next to our AWS segment, revenue was $33 billion, up 20.2% year-over-year. This is an acceleration of 270 basis points compared to last quarter, driven by strong growth across both our AI and core services and more capacity which has come online to support customer demand.

AWS revenue increased $2.1 billion quarter over quarter and now has an annualized revenue run rate of $132 billion. AWS operating income was $11.4 billion and reflects our continued growth coupled with our focus on driving efficiencies across the business. We are expanding our data center footprint largely to accommodate Gen AI, and to the extent those assets were placed into service, the related depreciation does impact our margins. As we've long said, we expect AWS operating margins to fluctuate over time, driven in part by the level of investments we're making at any point in time. Now turning to our cash CapEx, which was $34.2 billion in Q3. We've now spent $89.9 billion so far this year.

This primarily relates to AWS as we invest to support demand for AI and core services and in custom silicon like Trainium, as well as tech infrastructure to support our North America and international segments. We'll continue to make significant investments, especially in AI, as we believe it to be a massive opportunity with the potential for strong returns on invested capital over the long term. Additionally, we continue to invest in our fulfillment and transportation network to support the growth of the business, improve delivery speeds, and lower our cost to serve. These investments will support growth for many years to come. Looking ahead, we expect our full-year cash CapEx to be approximately $125 billion in 2025, and we expect that amount will increase in 2026. I'll finish up my remarks with net income.

While we primarily focus our comments on operating income, our third-quarter net income of $21.2 billion includes a pre-tax gain of $9.5 billion related to our investment in Anthropic. This investment activity is not related to Amazon's ongoing operations and is included in non-operating income. We're encouraged by the start of the peak season, and we are ready to serve customers in the coming months. I want to thank our teams across Amazon for their hard work as we get ready to delight customers during the holiday season. Our commitment to elevating the customer experience is the only reliable way to drive sustainable value for our shareholders. With that, let's move on to your questions.

Thank you. At this time, we will now open the call up for questions. We ask each caller to please limit yourself to one question.

If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your keypad. We ask that when you pose your question, you pick up your handset to provide optimum sound quality. Once again, to initiate a question, please press star, then one on your touch-tone telephone at this time. Please hold while we pull for questions. Our first question comes from the line of Justin Post with Bank of America. Please proceed.

Great. Thank you. I'll ask on AWS. Can you just kind of go through how you're feeling about your capacity levels and how capacity constrained you are right now? In your prepared remarks, you mentioned Trainium3 demand and maybe broadening out your customer base. Can you talk about the demand you're seeing outside of your major customers for Trainium? Thank you. Yeah.

On the capacity side, we brought in quite a bit of capacity, as I mentioned in my opening comments, 3.8 GW of capacity in the last year, with another gigawatt plus coming in the fourth quarter. We expect to double our overall capacity by the end of 2027. We're bringing in quite a bit of capacity. Today, overall in the industry, maybe the bottleneck is power. I think at some point it may move to chips, but we're bringing in quite a bit of capacity. As fast as we're bringing it in right now, we are monetizing it. On the Trainium demand outside of our major customers, first of all, as I mentioned on Trainium2, it's really doing well. It's fully subscribed on Trainium2. It's a multi-billion dollar business at this point. It grew 150% quarter over quarter in revenue.

You see really big projects at scale now, like our Project Rainier that we're doing with Anthropic, where they're training their next version of Claude on top of Trainium2 on 500,000 Trainium2 chips, going to a million Trainium2 chips by the end of the year. As I mentioned, today with Trainium2, we have a small number of very large customers on it. Because Trainium is 30%-40% more price-performant than other options out there, and because as customers start to contemplate broader scale of their production workloads, moving to being AI-focused and using inference, they badly care about price performance. We have a lot of demand for Trainium. Trainium3 should preview at the end of this year with much fuller volumes coming in the beginning of 2026.

We have a lot of customers, both very large and I'll call it medium size, who are quite interested in Trainium3.

The next question comes from the line of Brian Nowak with Morgan Stanley.

Thanks for taking my questions. Congrats on the quarter, guys. So maybe two. One, Andy, sort of a philosophical chip question. There's a lot of questions in the market about Trainium and sort of its positioning versus other third-party chips. How do you think about the key hurdles with Trainium3 you need to overcome to really make Trainium adoption broader, to your point on the last question, and continue to drive Trainium, as opposed to satisfying what could be broader demand with third-party chips in the near term?

Yeah. First of all, we're always going to have multiple chip options for our customers.

It's been true in every major technology building block or component that we've had in AWS. Really, in the history of AWS, it's never just one player that over a long period of time has the entire market segment and can satisfy everybody's needs on every dimension. We have a very deep relationship with NVIDIA. We have for a very long time, and we will for as long as I can foresee the future. We buy a lot of NVIDIA. We are not constrained in any way in buying NVIDIA. I expect that we'll continue to buy more NVIDIA, both next year and in the future. We're different from most technology companies in that we have our own very strong chip team. This is our Annapurna team.

You saw it first on the CPU side with what we built with Graviton, which is about 40% better price performance than the other x86 processors. You're seeing it again on the custom silicon on the AI side with Trainium, which is about the same amount of price performance benefit for customers relative to other GPU options. Our customers to be able to use AI as expansively as they want, and remember, it's still relatively early days at this point, they're going to need better price performance, and they care about it deeply. I mentioned earlier the momentum that Trainium2 has. I think that for us, as we think about Trainium3, I expect Trainium3 will be about 40% better than Trainium2, and Trainium2 is already very advantaged on price performance. We have to, of course, deliver the chip.

We have to deliver it in volumes and deliver it quickly. We have to continue to work on the software ecosystem, which gets better all the time. As we have more proof points like we have with Project Rainier, with what Anthropic is doing on Trainium2, it builds increasing credibility for Trainium. I think customers are very bullish about it, and I'm bullish about it as well.

Our next question comes from the line of Doug Anmuth with JPMorgan. Please proceed with your question.

Thanks for taking the question. I'll stick with basically the same topic, Andy. Can you just talk a little bit about the architecture of Project Rainier and how it's differentiated, and what that means for customers and for AWS? Do you expect Rainier to expand beyond Anthropic, and how do you replicate Rainier with Trainium3 chips? Thank you. 

Yeah. I think what is compelling for Anthropic around Project Rainier is really the Trainium2 chip, which we've built. First of all, we built a very large cluster that they can use in a very expansive way. It's not simple to be able to build a cluster that has 500,000+ chips going to a million. That's an infrastructure feat that's hard to do at scale. Some piece of it is the infrastructure capabilities that we've built over a long period of time in AWS that is unusual in the industry. It's also the performance of the chip and the price performance, both of which matter. I think that Project Rainier is something that is specific for Anthropic, but we have a lot of other customers who are interested in employing large clusters of Trainium chips that we're going to hopefully give them a chance to do so with Trainium3.

The next question comes from the line of Mark Mahaney with Evercore ISI. Please proceed with your question.

Thanks. I want to ask about two topics: groceries and then how to think about headcount in the future. On groceries, the perishables, I think last quarter you talked about 70% or something of users had never purchased from perishables from Amazon before. Just talk about whether you—I think you used the term game changer before. Does this mean that maybe you no longer need to do Amazon Fresh stores? You always had this DVD delivery van density advantage. Have you kind of reached a point, you think, of scale and speed that you really can change people's habit and really have them consider Amazon as one of their first grocery options? Do you really feel like you're at that point?

Secondly, just on the headcount, given some of the recent news, just talk to us about how you think about headcount going forward. Are you seeing that—is the level of efficiencies that you're getting from AI such that. You can keep headcount relatively flattish for the foreseeable future? Just talk about the pros and cons or the wins and losses in terms of that headcount going forward. Thank you.

Yeah. I'll start with grocery, Mark. We have a very large grocery business. If you look at our entire grocery business, if I don't even count Whole Foods Market and Fresh, in the last 12 months, it's over $100 billion of gross merchandising sales, which would make us a top-three grocery in the U.S.

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