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Amazon told investors that Amazon Web Services (AWS) revenue jumped 37% to $42.2 billion, the fastest pace since late 2021 and the fifth straight quarter of acceleration, while Apple reported softer-than-expected sales in China and a services slowdown. Bloomberg’s framing turns these two headlines into a live test of tech’s current tradeoff: heavy capex to capture AI-driven cloud demand versus the vulnerability of a mature hardware-and-services franchise. For anyone positioning tech exposure, the episode narrows the question to whether spending now will translate into sustainable profits later.