When the pandemic hit three years ago, Amazon was one of the few businesses that thrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Customers flocked to the online commerce site amid global lockdowns. But even when those lockdowns eventually lifted and Amazon\u2019s sales slowed as people returned to stores, the company could still count on its massive cash cow: Amazon Web Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now even the lucrative cloud services business is feeling pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Companies are trimming their expenses amid\u00a0concerns about high inflation<\/a>\u00a0and fears that\u00a0a recession might be around the corner<\/a>. And many of them are being more cautious about their cloud costs, leading to a slowdown in one of Amazon\u2019s profitable businesses. The tech giant\u2019s first quarter earnings report showed its cloud unit generated $21.4 billion and was growing at 16% in the first three months of this year \u2014 much slower than the 37% growth rate a year prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another challenge for Amazon, Nag says, is that businesses are increasingly using multiple cloud services and moving away from single providers, a move that can boost tech options and prevent companies from being reliant on only one vendor. The firm predicts more than 90% of businesses will use multiple providers by 2026, a jump from 76% in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Posted from:https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/amazon-aws-slowdown-cloud-services-813a9cd0af33ccee6cfcd748180274b7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n AWS<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0are pausing or slowing down the development of data centers, according to a\u00a0Wells Fargo<\/a>\u00a0research note shared with PYMNTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Posted from:https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/technology\/2025\/aws-microsoft-slow-down-data-center-deployments\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n For years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the undisputed king of cloud computing. It wasn\u2019t just Amazon\u2019s cash cow \u2014 it\u00a0was<\/em>\u00a0the cloud. But something\u2019s changed.\u00a0If you\u2019ve been reading between the lines \u2014 edge computing investments, Nitro Systems, hybrid partnerships \u2014 Amazon seems to be slowly retreating from its full-throttle cloud-first narrative.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n Posted from: https:\/\/techpreneurr.medium.com\/why-amazon-is-quietly-abandoning-the-cloud-11a6691d5967<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the pandemic hit three years ago, Amazon was one of the few businesses that thrived. Customers flocked to the online commerce site amid global lockdowns. But even when those lockdowns eventually lifted and Amazon\u2019s sales slowed as people returned to stores, the company could still count on its massive cash cow: Amazon Web Services.… Read More »Why Amazon is Quietly Abandoning the Cloud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aws","category-cloud"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17330,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions\/17330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}