"It was a good start to the year across the business, and you can see that in both our customer experience improvements and financial results," Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a statement.
Aside from its core retail business, Amazon said first-quarter sales in its cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services. amounted to $25.04 billion, up 17% from the same period last year.
Sales in the company's online advertising business spiked 24%, driven by ad dollars from Prime Video. Viewers can now avoid ads by paying an extra $2.99 a month.
The company expects to post net sales between $144 billion and $149 billion in Q2, slightly below analysts' expectations of $150.2 billion, according to FactSet.
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