Amazon Posts $181.5 Billion in Revenue and Smashes Wall Street’s Q1 Earnings Expectations

Home Digital News Apr 29, 2026 1:15pm PT Amazon Posts $181.5 Billion in Revenue and Smashes Wall Street’s Q1 Earnings Expectations By Jennifer Maas Plus Icon Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer @jmaasaronson Latest Director Hiro Murai Re-Ups FX First-Look Deal as His New Apple Horror-Comedy ‘Widow’s Bay’ Debuts: ‘It Felt Nostalgic, But Without Getting Mushy’ (EXCLUSIVE) 54 minutes ago ‘SpongeBob Tower Defense,’ Highest-Earning IP-Based Game on Roblox, Launches 2.0 Version in Partnership With Paramount (EXCLUSIVE) 5 days ago ‘Fruit Ninja VR’ to Make Esports Debut in Global Gaming League Championship Between Howie Mandel and Ne-Yo’s Teams (EXCLUSIVE) 6 days ago See All Getty Images Amazon reported its latest quarterly earnings results Wednesday, revealing sales at its cloud business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), were up 28% year over year to $37.6 billion from January to March. Wall Street forecast earnings per share (EPS) of $1.65 on $177.2 billion in revenue, according to analyst consensus data provided by LSEG. Amazon reported adjusted EPS of $2.78 on $181.5 billion in revenue. That net sales figure is up 17% from Q1 2025, when the company brought in $155.7 billion in revenue. Related Stories Ally Simpson Promoted to President of Television at North Road’s Kinetic Content