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Amazon Predicted Its Slowest-Ever Holiday Season But Is Poised to Surprise

  • The question is whether the AWS cloud division will disappoint
  • Costs will also be top of mind when company reports Q4 results
Boxes move along a conveyor at an Amazon fulfillment center on Cyber Monday.
Boxes move along a conveyor at an Amazon fulfillment center on Cyber Monday.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

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 Amazon.com Inc., having predicted its slowest-ever holiday-season growth, now seems poised to turn in a better performance than expected — thanks in part to resilient US consumers.

The question is whether a decent Christmas season will be enough to offset slowing sales growth at the company’s cloud services division, which for years has generated most of Amazon’s profit.