{"id":1025383,"date":"2026-08-01T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025383"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:23:58","slug":"amazon-soars-as-cloud-revenue-surge-allays-fears-over-ballooning-ai-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/amazon-soars-as-cloud-revenue-surge-allays-fears-over-ballooning-ai-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon soars as cloud revenue surge allays fears over ballooning AI bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon shares surged 13% premarket on Friday after the tech giant&#8217;s solid cloud sales growth reinforced investor confidence in its massive AI bets and quashed any concerns about the company trailing its Big Tech rivals in the AI race. <\/p>\n<p>The e-commerce and cloud titan posted its strongest cloud growth in over four years, indicating a fresh wave of demand that justifies its 10% increase in planned capital \u200cspending for 2026 \u2060to $220 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Amazon&#8217;s \u2060results come as a resounding sign to Wall Street that some of Big Tech&#8217;s AI investments are already generating measurable returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon shares surged 13% premarket on Friday after the tech giant&#8217;s solid cloud sales growth reinforced investor confidence in its massive AI bets and quashed any concerns about the company trailing its Big Tech rivals in the AI race. The e-commerce and cloud titan posted its strongest cloud growth in over four years, indicating a fresh wave of demand that justifies its 10% increase in planned capital \u200cspending for 2026 \u2060to $220 billion. Amazon&#8217;s \u2060results come as a resounding sign to Wall Street that some of Big Tech&#8217;s AI investments are already generating measurable returns.<\/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-1025383","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\/1025383","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=1025383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025409,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025383\/revisions\/1025409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}