Amazon’s costs to ship its deliveries reached $102.7 billion in 2025, up from $95.8 billion the year before and well above the $83.5 billion notched in 2022. That said, efficiency has also increased considerably since then. In 2025, Amazon’s shipping costs were 17.5 percent of its North American and International sales, lower than the high of 19.2 percent notched in 2022. The company is well on its way to becoming the second-largest deliverer of packages. While the sprawling logistics operation currently exists only to support its own online e-commerce operation, it’s worth remembering that AWS originally existed entirely to support Amazon’s own online e-commerce operation before it started selling to everyone else. And AWS became a massive business in its own right.
Thomas Black, Bloomberg
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