Amazon grew sales 9% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2025, or 10% excluding changes in foreign exchange. North America segment sales increased 8% year-over-year, international segment sales increased 5% (or 8% excluding changes in foreign exchange rates). AWS segment sales increased 17% year-over-year.
Amazon saw worldwide paid units grow 8% in the first quarter, and third-party sellers accounted for 61% of worldwide paid units. (Those figures exclude Whole Foods Market.)
Net income increased to $17.1 billion in the first quarter compared with $10.4 billion in first quarter of 2024.
Headcount grew 3% in the quarter to 1,560,000 (that includes full-time and part-time employees but excludes contractors and temporary personnel).
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who made $1,596,889 in total compensation in 2024, said Amazon broke another delivery speed record for Prime members in the quarter. He was quoted as follows in the earnings press release:
“We’re pleased with the start to 2025, especially our pace of innovation and progress in continuing to improve customer experiences. From Alexa+ (our next generation of Alexa that’s meaningfully smarter, more capable, and takes actions for customers), to another delivery speed record for our Prime members, to our new Trainium2 chips and Bedrock model expansion that make it easier for AWS customers to train models and run inference more flexibly and cost-effectively, to our first Project Kuiper satellites successfully launching into low earth orbit in our quest to provide broadband access to hundreds of millions of households in rural areas without it today—we’re continuing to find meaningful ways to make customers’ lives easier and better every day.”
The full press release is on the Amazon Investor Relations website.