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Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy said the company's cloud computing supply is effectively sold out into 2027, as demand for AI workloads continues to outpace the capacity Amazon can build and bring online.
Jassy's remarks point to a widening gap between AI-driven demand for cloud infrastructure and available supply. Rather than facing a shortage of customers, Amazon is constrained by how quickly it can add data center capacity, with power and hardware availability among the limiting factors.
The company has been expanding its data center footprint to serve customers racing to deploy AI services, but Jassy indicated that even with aggressive buildout, capacity through 2027 is already spoken for.
A near sell-out of cloud capacity years in advance underscores the intensity of AI infrastructure demand and has ripple effects across the semiconductor and hardware supply chains, from GPUs to power equipment, as hyperscalers compete to secure components and energy for new facilities.
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