Microsoft Q4: The Greatest of All Time!!
Microsoft Cloud now accounts for 61% of total revenue, with Q4 cloud revenue hitting $47.6 billion, up 27% year-over-year.
Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans · bob evans
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00:14 — Now, any question about this greatest growth market the world has ever known was blown away last week, when Microsoft reported its fiscal Q4 earnings. And I think Microsoft's Q4 results have to be regarded as the greatest quarterly results of any company in any industry of all time.
00:40 — Now, I cannot say that I have done a rigorous analysis of every quarterly report from every company in every industry there's ever been. But I will be wide open to hearing from anybody about anything that expands this. It could have grown even more, but customer demand is just swamping ability to build out data center capacity.
01:38 — Microsoft Cloud used to be a nice, healthy portion of its business. It's now 61% of Microsoft's overall revenue. The total number for Microsoft's remaining performance obligation: $368 billion — a phenomenal, huge number. But it grew 37%, so you've got a combination here of scale with an incredible rate of growth here on this.
03:31 — Azure in Q4, it grew 39%. If you look at the full year, Azure grew 34%. Now, revenue for Azure is over $75 billion. And the Q1 growth guidance for Azure is 37%. So again, even at these very large numbers, the growth rates are astonishing. Also looking ahead to Q1, which will end September 30, CFO Amy Hood said the CapEx is expected to be $30 billion.
04:45 — We saw Google Cloud last week report very, very strong Q4. It's up 32% to $13.6 billion. Oracle's reporting just spectacular growth rates. RPO in its most recent quarter was 62%, and they're predicting 100% RPO for their fiscal year, which will end May 31 of next year. AWS numbers haven't come out yet, so I will get to them later next week. But hats off to Microsoft.
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