Amazon grew North American sales 9% in the third quarter of 2024, year-over-year, to $95.5 billion. It grew International sales 12% in Q3 to $35.9 billion (and 12% excluding changes in foreign exchange rates). Worldwide paid units grew 12% in the quarter, and third-party sellers accounted for 60% of worldwide paid units in the quarter, excluding the impact of Whole Foods Market.
Amazon also runs the AWS technology service. AWS segment sales increased 19% year-over-year to $27.5 billion.
Total Amazon net sales increased 11% to $158.9 billion in Q3.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in Thursday’s earnings announcement: “As we get into the holiday season, we’re excited about what we have in store for customers. We kicked off the holiday season with our biggest-ever Prime Big Deal Days and the launch of an all-new Kindle lineup that is significantly outperforming our expectations; and there’s so much more coming, from tens of millions of deals, to our NFL Black Friday game and Election Day coverage with Brian Williams on Prime Video, to over 100 new cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities that we’ll share at AWS re:Invent the week after Thanksgiving.”
