Amazon Web Services (aws) Due Diligence

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United States · owned by Amazon.com, Inc. (United States) · aws.amazon.com · 39 vendors

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. AWS provides scalable, reliable, and inexpensive cloud computing infrastructure including compute power, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning, and more. It serves millions of customers ranging from startups and enterprises to government agencies worldwide.

Resilience scores

Disruption prediction

Amazon Web Services (aws)'s riskiest service, DynamoDB: 1 critical incidents expected in the next three months.

Highest of the 41 Amazon Web Services (aws) services with critical incidents of their own on record.

Forecast estimates are rounded up to whole numbers.

No active incident reported (its status page, as of 2026-11-09 23:55 UTC)

13 of Amazon Web Services (aws)'s 39 vendors have incident tracking.

Technology vendors

Services catalogue

176 services in catalogue across 7 categories; runs on 39 sub-vendors.

Insights

Last updated 2026-10-05 · revision 26

39 direct vendors, 258 subvendors

Direct vendors by controlling owner country (sample)

Subvendors by controlling owner country (sample)

Compliance

15 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.

SOX — Evidence found

Evidence: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/soc-faqs/, https://aws.amazon.com/artifact/, https://ir.aboutamazon.com/sec-filings/annual-reports/, https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/programs/

HIPAA (source) — Evidence found

Evidence: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/, https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-reference/, https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/baa/, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/tag/hipaa/, https://aws.amazon.com/artifact/

SOC 2 (source) — Evidence found

Evidence: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/soc-faqs/, https://aws.amazon.com/artifact/, https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/programs/, https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/soc-3-report/

Financials

Three-year financials

Financial Resilience Score: 9/10

AWS demonstrates exceptional financial resilience as the dominant global cloud infrastructure provider, with FY2024 revenue of $107.6B and operating income of $39.8B representing a 37% operating margin — extraordinarily high for an infrastructure business. Revenue growth reaccelerated to 18.5% in 2024 after a slowdown to 13.3% in 2023, and operating income surged 61.7% year-over-year, reflecting strong AI-driven demand, favorable useful-life adjustments on servers, and cost discipline. AWS benefits from significant structural advantages: it is the #1 hyperscaler globally with roughly 30% market share, holds over $150B in remaining performance obligations (multi-year enterprise contracts) providing revenue visibility, and is backed by Amazon's consolidated balance sheet (~$285.9B equity in FY2024) with substantial cash reserves and free cash flow. This allows AWS to fund heavy capex ($100B+ guided for 2025) without external financing, while maintaining pricing power through a diversified customer base across industries and geographies. Key risks include accelerating capital intensity tied to AI infrastructure buildout (margin sustainability depends on utilization), intensifying competition from Microsoft/OpenAI, Google, Oracle, and specialty GPU clouds, regulatory scrutiny in the US, UK, and EU, and heavy dependency on Nvidia GPUs. Nonetheless, the combination of dominant market position, high margins, contracted backlog, and parent-company strength support a very high resilience rating.

Key strengths: Dominant #1 position in global cloud infrastructure (~30% market share), 37% operating margin in FY2024, exceptionally high for infrastructure business, Remaining performance obligations exceeding $150B providing revenue visibility, Backed by Amazon consolidated equity of ~$285.9B and strong free cash flow, Diversified customer base across industries, governments, and geographies, Strong reacceleration of growth to 18.5% in FY2024 driven by generative AI demand

Risk factors: Accelerating capital intensity with 2025 capex guided over $100B, Intensifying AI competition from Microsoft/OpenAI, Google, Oracle, and GPU-specialty clouds, Regulatory scrutiny from FTC (US), CMA (UK), and EU on cloud market practices, Heavy dependency on Nvidia GPUs; in-house Trainium/Inferentia chips unproven at scale, Customer concentration on AI hyperscale workloads (e.g., Anthropic), FX exposure on 30%+ international sales

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