AMZN2

Amazon Web Services (AWS; parent-company proxy)

HALAL — METHODS DIFFERstock

Is AMZN2 Halal?

Cloud infrastructure — if assessed separately, AWS is entirely permissible.

What You Should Know

AWS provides cloud computing services. The March 31, 2026 Amazon filing gives a parent-company proxy of debt/assets 13.32%, liquidity/assets 15.61%, receivables plus cash/assets 19.35% and disclosed interest income/revenue 0.59%. AWS-specific financial statements and activity revenue are not separately disclosed, so the quantitative result is methodology-dependent rather than an AWS certification.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Part of Amazon (parent has DOUBTFUL status)
  • Parent-company ratios are not standalone AWS figures
  • Amazon activity mix is not allocated to the alias

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
13.32%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

122,058 / 916,630

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
15.61%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

143,089 / 916,630

Receivables + cash / assets
19.35%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

177,348 / 916,630

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.59%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

1,066 / 181,519

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Pass
Overall
Incomplete

Parent-proxy debt is 13.32%, liquidity is 15.61%, receivables plus cash are 19.35% and disclosed interest income is 0.59%, each below the examined limits; AWS-specific activity remains incomplete.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Pass
Overall
Incomplete

Parent-proxy debt, liquidity and receivables-plus-cash are 13.32%, 15.61% and 19.35%, below the examined 33.33% total-assets limits; this is not an AWS standalone or index-membership claim.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Pass
Overall
Incomplete

Parent-proxy debt and identifiable liquidity are 13.32% and 15.61%, below the examined 33% limits; the calculation is not an official classification and AWS activity remains incomplete.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Not calculated

A properly licensed and reproducible 24- or 36-month issuer market-cap history is not stored, so market-cap methods are not estimated from a current spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

AWS provides cloud infrastructure and related technology services, which are generally permissible in isolation. The AMZN2 route is an AWS alias, but the available filing is Amazon parent-company data and does not isolate AWS activity for a complete issuer-level Sharia screen.

Limitation: Amazon does not disclose a reproducible prohibited-revenue numerator or a standalone AWS balance sheet and income statement in the filing used here.

Purification

Parent-company interest income is 0.59% of quarterly revenue, but AWS-specific income and a scholar-approved purification numerator are unavailable; no fixed purification amount is prescribed.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • This is a parent-company proxy for the preserved AMZN2 AWS route; Amazon does not publish a standalone AWS balance sheet for this screen.
  • Debt includes 119,074 of long-term debt, 2,832 of current debt and 152 of short-term borrowings; leases and other financing obligations are excluded from this narrower debt input.
  • Cash is 101,816 and marketable securities are 41,273; restricted cash and operating balances are excluded.
  • Accounts receivable, net and other is 75,532; the combined filing line is used conservatively because a standalone AWS receivables balance is unavailable.
  • Quarterly revenue is 181,519 and reported interest income is 1,066, or 0.59% of parent revenue. AWS revenue and prohibited-activity revenue are not separately quantified.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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