This Under-the-Radar AI Infrastructure Stock Looks Primed to Skyrocket

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Keithen Drury, The Motley Fool

Sun, April 19, 2026 astatine 9:50 AM CDT 3 min read

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) isn't what you deliberation of erstwhile you deliberation of artificial quality (AI) infrastructure. Most radical subordinate Amazon with its commerce tract and transportation services, which is simply a just assessment. This portion of the concern generates the bulk of Amazon's revenue.

However, Amazon's unreality computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), generates astir of the profits. This makes Amazon a spot of an under-the-radar AI infrastructure play, and the banal looks primed to skyrocket implicit the adjacent fewer months arsenic much radical recognize however awesome this conception of Amazon's concern is.

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Although Amazon has rallied successful caller weeks, it's inactive a coagulated buy, arsenic the outlook for the concern is beardown and its valuation is inactive reasonable.

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In the 4th quarter, AWS accounted for 50% of Amazon's operating profits contempt lone making up 17% of full sales. Q4 is by acold Amazon's astir profitable 4th for its commerce business, and astir of the twelvemonth looks similar Q3, wherever AWS made up 66% of Amazon's operating profits. Despite its overmuch smaller size, AWS is simply a immense nett driver, and it looks to lone support accelerating that way.

AWS posted 24% gross maturation during Q4 -- its champion successful implicit 3 years. It's doing truthful good that Amazon decided to walk a jaw-dropping $200 cardinal successful superior expenditures to summation its footprint dramatically. While immoderate question that decision, Amazon noted successful its shareholder missive that the faster AWS grows, the much it'll spend. They noted that portion spending is high, the semipermanent payment to escaped currency travel is impressive. They besides noted that they're not blindly spending $200 billion; they person customers committed to utilizing the abstraction erstwhile it's available.

That benignant of connection beauteous overmuch conveys that we're going to spot accelerating maturation rates from AWS. Because AWS makes up the bulk of Amazon's profits, this volition construe into rapidly rising profits arsenic well. That's a one-two punch that investors emotion to see, and it could nonstop shares skyrocketing. However, implicit the past month, Amazon's banal has risen astir 20%. While it would person been amended to put a fewer weeks ago, the world is that Amazon's aboriginal is bright, and the terms isn't expensively valued.

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