Tech in Asia reported that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on a video podcast that AWS has largely sold its cloud capacity through 2027. Customer commitments run into 2028, he said, because AI demand is running ahead of supply. Andreessen Horowitz's Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg hosted the podcast. Jassy said 2026 is already sold out. This is a secondhand account.
Jassy said AWS is keeping back some 2027 capacity for on-demand buyers and for services such as Bedrock and EC2. The report gives no size for that share, no regions, and no price changes. Amazon earlier put its 2026 capital spending at about US$220 billion. Jassy said it could spend a lot more and that this would be a sound use of money. Third-quarter results are due October 29.
General background, not from the report: buyers can commit to capacity in advance, or rent it on demand from whatever is left unreserved. If committed demand is large, that leftover pool can shrink. Our suggestion: treat capacity as something to contract for, not assume. A budget signer can ask what happens to a workload if on-demand supply runs short, and how much of the 2027 need a commitment covers.