Amazon shares jumped 7% on Friday and neared an all-time high after the company reported better-than-expected earnings, driven by growth in its cloud computing and advertising businesses.
Revenue increased 11% in the quarter to $158.9 billion, topping the $157.2 billion estimate of analysts surveyed by LSEG.
Sales in the Amazon Web Services cloud business increased 19% to $27.4 billion, coming in just shy of analysts' estimates, according to StreetAccount.
That was an acceleration from 12% a year ago, but trailed growth at rivals Microsoft and Google , where cloud revenue increased 33% and 35%, respectively.
The midpoint of that range, $185 billion, fell short of the average analyst estimate of $186.2 billion, according to LSEG.
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