E-commerce giant Amazon has reported a 13% increase in net sales in the second quarter (Q2) of the fiscal year 2025 (FY25), reaching $167.7bn, compared to $148bn in Q2 FY24.
Net sales in the retailer’s North American segment saw an 11% year-over-year (YoY) increase to $100.1bn.
The company’s international segment reported a 16% rise year-over-year to $36.8bn. Its AWS segment sales increased 17.5% year-over-year to $30.9bn.
Amazon’s net income increased to $18.2bn in the quarter, or $1.68 per diluted share, compared with $13.5bn, or $1.26 per diluted share, in Q2 2024.
Amazon’s operating income climbed to $19.2bn in the second quarter, compared with $14.7bn in Q2 FY24.
In June 2025, the company invested an additional $100m in the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, supporting customers as they spearhead the upcoming surge in AI advancements.
Amazon president and CEO Andy Jassy said: “Our conviction that AI will change every customer experience is starting to play out as we’ve expanded Alexa+ to millions of customers, continue to see our shopping agent used by many millions of customers, launched AI models like DeepFleet that optimise productivity paths for our 1M+ robots, made it much easier for software developers to write code with Kiro (our new agentic IDE), launched Strands to make it easier to build AI agents, and released Bedrock AgentCore to enable agents to be operated securely and scalably.
“Our AI progress across the board continues to improve our customer experiences, speed of innovation, operational efficiency, and business growth, and I’m excited for what lies ahead.”
The retail giant has announced an expansion of its Same-Day and Next-Day Delivery services, aiming to reach tens of millions of US customers in over 4,000 smaller cities, towns, and rural communities by the end of 2025.
For the third quarter of 2025, Amazon forecasts net sales to be between $174bn and $179.5bn, a growth of 10% to 13% compared with the same period in 2024. This includes a favourable impact from foreign exchange rates of approximately 130 basis points.
Operating income is projected to be between $15.5bn and $20.5bn, compared with $17.4bn in the third quarter of 2024.
This guidance is subject to substantial uncertainty and factors such as foreign exchange rates, global economic conditions, and customer demand. Amazon said in its financial results: “Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, such as fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic and geopolitical conditions, tariff and trade policies, and customer demand and spending (including the impact of recessionary fears), inflation, interest rates, regional labour market constraints, world events, the rate of growth of the internet, online commerce, cloud services, and new and emerging technologies, and the various factors.”
