Amazon Investors Bet on AWS to Pull the Stock Out of Its Malaise
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Amazon investors are optimistic about the company's cloud-computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is expected to benefit from the growth of artificial intelligence technology, potentially pulling the stock out of its malaise.
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Market impact analysis based on bullish sentiment with 85% confidence.
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The optimism starts with demand for the Amazon Web Services cloud-computing business, which is positioned to benefit from the explosion of artificial intelligence technology. “An improvement in AWS should help materially in terms of the perception of the stock as being the relative loser in cloud,” said Pat Burton, a portfolio manager at Winslow Capital Management, who counts Amazon as one of his biggest overweights among the Magnificent Seven tech giants. Amazon shares were the worst performers among the Mag Seven in 2025, their seventh straight year trailing the group.
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Original article published by Yahoo Finance on January 21, 2026. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.