Amazon's Q2 2026 earnings report was massive

Here are the year-over-year numbers:
- Revenue up 20% to $200.6 billion
- Net income up 245% to $62.65 billion
- AWS up 37% to $42.23 billion
- North American sales up 16% to $116.2 billion
- International sales 15% to $42.2 billion
- Advertising services up 26% to $19.81 billion
- Subscription services up 12% to $13.73 billion
- Employees up 3% to 1,595,000

Investors loved that AWS growth is reaccelerating, so they sent the stock up.

Full results: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-release/news-release-details/2026/Amazon-com-Announces-Second-Quarter-Results/

I originally published this as a post on LinkedIn.