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Amazon Web Services: risk summary

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Financial

Latest full-year results from official filings.

Parent Amazon.com (AMZN) group FY2025 revenue $716.92bn (+12.4%); operating margin 11.2%; net income $77.67bn.

AWS segment: sales $128.7bn (+20%), operating income $45.6bn.

Researched 8 Nov 2026

Adverse media

Credible news about incidents, disputes, legal action or restructuring in the last 24 months.

Oct 2025: A major AWS outage centred on its US-East-1 region disrupted many online services and businesses worldwide for several hours before Amazon reported services were back to normal.

Researched 10 Nov 2026

Cyber & information governance

Data breaches, cyber incidents, regulator action and assurance status.

Jul 2025: A malicious prompt designed to wipe files and cloud resources was merged into version 1.84 of the Amazon Q extension for VS Code; AWS revoked credentials, released a fix and said no production services or end users were affected. NHS DSPT status not yet checked.

Researched 10 Nov 2026

Regulatory & clinical safety

Recalls, safety notices, regulator action and clinical safety concerns.

Cloud infrastructure supplier; no regulatory or clinical safety actions found in the last 24 months.

Researched 10 Nov 2026