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Amazon’s second-quarter sales reached $200.6 billion; AWS supplied most segment operating income.
The operating business expanded, while a $53.4 billion non-operating gain—primarily tied to Anthropic investments—drove the much larger net-income jump.
Sources
Amazon second-quarter 2026 earnings release published July 30, 2026, including consolidated statements, segment highlights and guidance.
Amazon reported $200.606 billion of net sales for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, up 20% from $167.702 billion a year earlier. Operating income increased 43% to $27.461 billion.
AWS sales rose 37% to $42.2 billion and AWS operating income increased to $16.6 billion from $10.2 billion. North America operating income was $9.1 billion and International operating income was $1.7 billion. Net income reached $62.647 billion, but the release says it included $53.4 billion of non-operating pre-tax other income, primarily from investments in Anthropic.
AWS represented about one-fifth of company sales but roughly three-fifths of the three disclosed segments’ operating income. That contrast makes operating income a more useful bridge to the underlying quarter than net income alone. North America and International were both profitable on the segment measure, while AWS remained the largest contributor.
The net-income comparison is dominated by a non-operating event. Total non-operating income was $53.396 billion, compared with $1.686 billion a year earlier. Amazon explicitly attributes the quarter’s $53.4 billion of pre-tax other income primarily to Anthropic investments. That amount is not AWS revenue, retail revenue or operating income, and it should not be used as if it were recurring operating margin.
For the third quarter, Amazon guided net sales to $197 billion to $202 billion and operating income to $22.5 billion to $26.5 billion. The company said that outlook assumes no impact from energy-derivative remeasurements and no additional acquisitions, restructurings or legal settlements. Those are management ranges with substantial uncertainty, not reported results.
Operating income and net income can tell different stories
Operating income measures the result of the company’s operations before interest, taxes and non-operating gains. Net income includes those later items. A large investment gain can lift net income without being sales from customers.
AWS operating contribution is clearer than headline EPS
AWS generated $16.6 billion of segment operating income. Consolidated net income includes a $53.4 billion pre-tax non-operating gain primarily from Anthropic investments, so year-over-year EPS is not a clean operating-growth proxy.
What we do not know
The release does not make the investment gain recurring, and it does not guarantee the third-quarter guidance ranges. This article does not estimate Anthropic’s value, forecast AWS growth or infer a stock-price response.
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