The question is not whether Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) will run low on cash.
Shares of The Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD | TTD Price Prediction) are down roughly 13% to $20.41 in early Friday trading after the company posted a Q1 2026 earnings miss and issued a softer Q2 2026 outlook than the Street had hoped to see.
On Meta's Q1 2026 earnings call, CFO Susan Li said the quiet part out loud.
Amazon's cloud computing division experienced an outage at one of its northern Virginia data centre zones on Thursday, disrupting services for several major platforms, including cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and derivatives marketplace CME Group. While it was not immediately clear whether the issues affecting AWS and CME were directly connected, Coinbase confirmed that problems on its exchange were caused by the AWS disruption.
Amazon (AMZN, Financials) said its cloud unit was working to restore normal temperatures at a North Virginia data center after overheating disrupted some servic
Nvidia is still the market leader by far.
Amazon stock investors are not convinced the capital investments are worthwhile.
Meta's projected 2026 capital expenditure runs $125 to $145 billion. The company's total human compensation bill, every salary, every benefit, every stock grant, comes to roughly $27 billion.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced in a Thursday (May 7) company blog post a set of tools designed to allow artificial intelligence agents to conduct financial transactions autonomously.