Amazon just admitted something a lot of PPC managers already knew. In June 2026, Amazon Ads rolled out unified reporting across its ad console, and the whole point was speed. Amazon says the new system cuts report build time “from hours down to minutes”. That’s a big admission from a platform that used to expect advertisers to stitch together separate Sponsored Ads and DSP reports by hand.

Most Amazon performance drops don’t come as a surprise. They become a surprise because you discover them too late.