Amazon’s Trillion-Dollar AWS AI Bet
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If AWS demand is strong enough that analysts see capacity constraints through 2027, cloud AI is shifting from “infinite scale” narrative to real resource allocation. Enterprise buyers should expect more queuing, regional constraints, and pricing pressure on high-end AI instances and plan hybrid or multi-cloud hedges now.
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