{"id":1025365,"date":"2026-08-01T07:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025365"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:17:17","slug":"amazon-to-boost-spending-on-ai-and-other-technology-by-20-billion-after-strong-q2-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/amazon-to-boost-spending-on-ai-and-other-technology-by-20-billion-after-strong-q2-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to boost spending on AI and other technology by $20 billion after strong Q2 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said it will be increasing this year&#8217;s capital spending on technology, mostly artificial intelligence, by an additional 10% after the tech and e-commerce giant delivered strong profits and net sales during for fiscal second quarter, helped by surging growth in its prominent cloud computing unit. <\/p>\n<p>The Seattle-based company said Thursday that sales in its cloud computing unit called AWS rose 37% during the April-June period, faster than the 28% clip in the previous quarter and marking the fastest rate of growth in 18 quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said it will be increasing this year&#8217;s capital spending on technology, mostly artificial intelligence, by an additional 10% after the tech and e-commerce giant delivered strong profits and net sales during for fiscal second quarter, helped by surging growth in its prominent cloud computing unit. The Seattle-based company said Thursday that sales in its cloud computing unit called AWS rose 37% during the April-June period, faster than the 28% clip in the previous quarter and marking the fastest rate of growth in 18 quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025391,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025365\/revisions\/1025391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}