Amazon’s cloud unit AWS reports weaker-than-expected earnings growth

Investors worried over first-quarter sales outlook

Amazon’s retail service offsets cloud weakness with 7% online sales growth

By Greg Bensinger, Deborah Mary Sophia

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Amazon.com financiers drove shares down dramatically on Thursday due to weak point in the computing system and lower-than-expected forecasts for first-quarter earnings and revenue.

Amazon’s shares fell as much as 5% in prolonged trade after the fourth-quarter profits report, erasing about $90 billion worth of stock exchange worth, and were last down about 4.2%.

Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said he expected the capital investment run rate for this year to be roughly the like last year’s 4th quarter when the company spent $26.3 billion. Amazon has actually enhanced costs in specific to assist develop expert system software application.

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