Shares of Amazon (AMZN) are trading higher after the tech giant opened its re:Invent 2025 conference in Las Vegas by announcing a long list of new and expanded partnerships across major industries. Indeed, its cloud division, AWS, revealed deals with CrowdStrike (CRWD), BlackRock (BLK), S&P Global (SPGI), Trane Technologies (TT), Visa (V), and others in order to help customers use cloud services and AI more easily.
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For example, CrowdStrike will launch an improved version of its SaaS Quick Launch tool in the AWS Marketplace for its Falcon Next-Gen SIEM product, which will offer automated setup and pay-as-you-go access to reduce deployment time and cost. Meanwhile, BlackRock is expanding its Aladdin investment platform to AWS to give clients more flexibility in where they run their financial systems. In addition, S&P Global is adding two new Model Context Protocol integrations that let customers ask detailed market, financial, and energy questions using AI agents directly inside Amazon Quick Suite.
AWS also talked about projects that are focused on efficiency and future commerce. In fact, Trane Technologies will help Amazon improve energy efficiency by 15% across more than 30 Amazon Grocery fulfillment centers. At the same time, Visa is partnering with AWS to bring its Visa Intelligent Commerce platform to the AWS Marketplace so developers can build AI agents that can safely make purchases. The re:Invent event runs from December 1 to 5 and includes keynotes on agentic AI, partnerships, and infrastructure innovations.
Is Amazon a Buy, Sell, or Hold?
Turning to Wall Street, analysts have a Strong Buy consensus rating on AMZN stock based on 43 Buys and one Hold assigned in the past three months, as indicated by the graphic below. Furthermore, the average AMZN price target of $295.60 per share implies 26.2% upside potential.
