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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says cloud growth is constrained by infrastructure supply limits
Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy noted during a public statement that the company's growth in the AI and cloud sector is currently limited by the availability of hardware supply, suggesting that AWS could expand more rapidly if chip and infrastructure allocation met their full demand.
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In a recent earnings call following Amazon's fourth-quarter 2025 results, CEO Andy Jassy revealed that growth for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently being limited by infrastructure supply. Jassy stated that "every provider would tell you, including us, we'd grow faster if we had all the supply we could take." This constraint comes despite AWS maintaining a $142 billion annualized revenue run rate and experiencing 24% year-over-year growth, as the company struggles to keep pace with the "insatiable" global demand for generative AI and cloud capacity.
To address these bottlenecks, Amazon announced a massive capital expenditure plan of $200 billion for 2026, a significant increase from the $131 billion spent in 2025. This record-breaking budget is primarily earmarked for data centers and specialized hardware to alleviate the global GPU and power infrastructure shortages. While the investment underscores a long-term commitment to AI leadership, the scale of the spend contributed to an 11.5% drop in Amazon's share price as investors weighed the high costs of the ongoing semiconductor and infrastructure supercycle.
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