For most of this year, the conversation around Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been dominated by one uncomfortable question: Will all that AI spending ever pay off? The company's enormous infrastructure buildout has compressed free cash flow, unsettled the bond market, and left investors waiting for hard evidence that the money is translating into growth.
That wait may be about to end. Ahead of its next earnings report on July 30, some analysts are forecasting a sharp acceleration in AWS revenue growth, comfortably outpacing the wider market expectations. If the numbers land anywhere close to that, it would be exactly the proof point the bulls have been asking for.