Sentiment · FY2026 Q1
What companies say about each other on earnings calls — extracted verbatim from public transcripts. Mentions from the newest quarter are a Pro feature.
“In Q4, we announced that we will enable AWS with NVLink to integrate with their custom silicon.”
NVIDIA enabling AWS to pair NVLink with Amazon's custom silicon indicates deeper integration between NVIDIA networking and AWS in-house chips.
“This past year alone, we did nearly $1.5 billion of total contract value on the AWS marketplace, growing nearly 50% year-over-year.”
CrowdStrike transacted nearly $1.5B of TCV via the AWS marketplace (up ~50% YoY), a positive read-through for AWS marketplace volumes and the CrowdStrike-AWS partnership.
“AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and OCI have boosted AI inference performance for enterprise cloud customers.”
AWS (Amazon) is cited as adopting NVIDIA Dynamo to boost AI inference for cloud customers.
“it was only 1 year ago that we announced with AWS a warrant and strategic arrangement with them.”
Marvell expanded its warrant/strategic arrangement with AWS to add a photonic-fabric 'swim lane,' and AWS publicly supported the Celestial AI acquisition, reinforcing AWS as a key custom-silicon customer.
“AWS selected Falcon NextGen SIEM as the default SIEM for all their customers.”
AWS made CrowdStrike's Falcon NextGen SIEM the default SIEM in its Security Hub console for millions of AWS customers, a major distribution partnership win for CrowdStrike and a security-content expansion for AWS.
“our growth with AWS is very strong, and it's going as expected.”
Flex reports strong, on-plan growth with hyperscale customer AWS (tied to an Amazon warrant deal), signaling continued AWS data center hardware buildout.
“AWS launched its fifth-generation Graviton processor with 192 cores, doubling the core count from Graviton four and delivering 25% higher performance and up to 33% lower latency versus Graviton four.”
AWS's fifth-generation Arm-based Graviton processor doubles core count, a positive royalty signal for Arm's data center business.
“In Q3, we introduced a new capability, enabling Amazon S3 Access Points for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.”
NetApp's first-party integration with AWS (Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP) deepens, connecting AWS AI and analytics services to NetApp data.
“We delivered significant growth with AWS, beginning Q3 with two AWS regions live, exiting Q3 with eight AWS regions live; we will exit Q4 with 22 AWS regions live.”
AWS is scaling as an Oracle multicloud database partner, with live regions growing from two to a planned 22, representing incremental cloud demand routed through Amazon's cloud.
“that is where you will see the majority of the Amazon volume. It is still ramping, and it is not material in this quarter”
FedEx is onboarding Amazon home-delivery (big-and-heavy) volume through its ground/home-delivery network; it is still ramping, expected to be accretive but not a top customer.
“We're thrilled to have AWS, Google Cloud, PwC and Glean among the first to sign on.”
AWS is among the first partners to join Workday's new AI Agent Partner Network and AI Agent Gateway.
“Further into the SMB market, Amazon Business Prime selected CrowdStrike Falcon Go for millions of businesses around the world.”
Amazon is bundling CrowdStrike's Falcon Go into Business Prime subscriptions, giving CrowdStrike a distribution channel into millions of small businesses.
“Mean you only have to look at L'Oreal as an example too of just how fast that business is growing and how happy our partners have been”
Amazon holds up L'Oreal as an example of a luxury brand growing quickly on the Amazon store, a positive read-through on L'Oreal's Amazon partnership.
“You mentioned Project Rainier Anthropic is building their next they're training the next Claude model on top of Tranium two.”
Amazon says Anthropic is training its next Claude model on AWS Trainium chips via Project Rainier, a read-through on Anthropic's deep compute partnership with AWS.
| Analyst | Firm | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Nowak | Morgan Stanley | 7 (14%) |
| Justin Post | Bank of America | 5 (0%) |
| Eric Sheridan | Goldman Sachs |
“I think we announced an agreement with OpenAI in November.”
Amazon frames its November agreement with OpenAI as a significant AWS win, a read-through that OpenAI is now an AWS customer.
“with SiriusXM, brands can reach 160 million monthly digital listeners across services like Pandora and SoundCloud”
A SiriusXM integration lets Amazon DSP brands reach 160M monthly digital listeners across Pandora and SoundCloud.
“With Spotify, we provide advertisers with direct programmatic access to a global audience of more than 400 million monthly ad-supported listeners.”
A Spotify integration gives Amazon DSP advertisers programmatic access to 400M+ monthly ad-supported listeners.
“we've built on that with a partnership with Netflix, providing advertisers using Amazon DSP with direct access to Netflix's premium ad inventory.”
Amazon DSP now gives advertisers direct access to Netflix's premium ad inventory through a new partnership.
“the Roku partnership gives us the largest connected TV footprint in the U.S.”
Amazon's DSP partnership with Roku gives it the largest connected-TV advertising footprint in the U.S.
“Thomson Reuters used it to transform 1.5 million lines of code per month, moving from Windows to open source alternatives and completing tasks or a times faster than with other migration tools.”
Thomson Reuters is cited as an AWS Transform customer migrating 1.5M lines of code per month off Windows to open source.
“Cohere Health is using AgentCore to deploy agents that will reduce medical review times by up to 30% to 40%.”
Cohere Health is cited as an AWS AgentCore customer deploying agents to cut medical review times by 30-40%.
“Sony used it to build a agentic AI platform with enterprise-level security, observability and scalability.”
Sony is cited as an AWS AgentCore customer that built an enterprise agentic AI platform.
“Ericsson used AgentCore to deliver AI agents across their workforce”
Ericsson is cited as an AWS AgentCore customer deploying AI agents across its workforce.
“our third quarter net income of $21.2 billion includes a pretax gain of $9.5 billion related to our investment in Anthropic.”
Amazon recorded a $9.5B pretax gain on its equity investment in Anthropic, marking up the value of the stake.
| Doug Anmuth | JPMorgan | 5 (0%) |
| Colin Sebastian | Robert W. Baird | 4 (0%) |
| Mark Mahaney | Evercore ISI | 4 (0%) |
| Shweta Khajuria | Wolfe Research | 2 (0%) |
| John Blackledge | TD Cowen | 2 (0%) |
| Mike Morton | MoffettNathanson | 2 (0%) |
| Ross Sandler | Barclays | 2 (0%) |
| Firm | Analysts | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Morgan Stanley | 1 | 7 (14%) |
| Goldman Sachs | 1 | 5 (0%) |
| Bank of America | 1 | 5 (0%) |
| JPMorgan | 1 | 5 (0%) |
| Robert W. Baird | 1 | 4 (0%) |
| Evercore ISI | 1 | 4 (0%) |
| Wolfe Research | 1 | 2 (0%) |
| Barclays | 1 | 2 (0%) |
Amazon delivered record Q4 revenue of $213.4 billion up 12% ex-FX with operating income of $25 billion as AWS accelerated to 24% growth, the fastest in thirteen quarters on a $142 billion annualized run rate. The custom silicon business exceeded $10 billion in ARR with Trainium fully subscribed and Trainium 3 in development, establishing Amazon as a major AI chip player. Operating cash flow reached $139.5 billion on a trailing twelve-month basis.
Cloud & AI | Innovation & R&D | Demand | Competitive Dynamics | Cost Pressure | Capex Investment | Margin | Supply Chain | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024Q4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2025Q1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2025Q2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2025Q3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 2025Q4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2026Q1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| '24Q4 | '25Q1 | '25Q2 | '25Q3 | '25Q4 | '26Q1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud & AI | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| Innovation & R&D | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Demand | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Competitive Dynamics | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Cost Pressure | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Capex Investment | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Margin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Supply Chain | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Company | Score | Trend | Rev YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. | 9 | +16.6% | |
| AZO AutoZone | 7 | +8.4% | |
| BBY Best Buy | 6 | +1.9% | |
| CASY Casey's General Stores, Inc. | 9 | +14.5% | |
| EBAY eBay | 8 | +19.5% | |
| GPC Genuine Parts Company | 6 | +6.8% | |
| MELI MercadoLibre | 7 | +49.0% | |
| ORLY O'Reilly Automotive | 8 | +10.2% | |
| PDD PDD Holdings | 6 | +10.4% | |
| TSCO Tractor Supply | 5 | +3.6% | |
| ULTA Ulta Beauty | 8 | +11.1% | |
| WSM Williams-Sonoma | 6 | +4.3% |