Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up. Staggering scale already.

Cost optimization & reporting 152

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 152

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

Cloud Downgrades This week UBS came out with a couple research reports citing concerns in AWS / Azure growth. If we rewind back the clock to the start of 2022 the big debate was rates. This brings me back to AWS / Azure downgrades. Inflation was starting to run rampant and we knew rates were going up.

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS Underperforming Technical Team 130

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. Overall, it wasn’t pretty… AWS grew 28% when expectations were 30-31%. At the same time, Azure came in below expectations. Follow along to stay up to date!

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS Cost optimization & reporting 130

SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 186

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS Enterprise readiness 186

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 11, 2023

The good news is gross retention (ie churn) stayed constant. From a new logo bookings perspective, we had our largest Q2 and second largest quarter ever, only behind the seasonally larger Q4 2022.” The hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) are seeing some uptick, but this is largely from selling compute (ie cloud GPUs).

Cloud 130

Cloud Trends Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

billion by 2022. 28% of IT spending will shift to the cloud by 2022. Running your own server to handle your customer's valuable data requires a huge investment to match the same level of security and reliability that comes baked into services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud. Double down on retention.

SaaS Payments 66

SaaS Payments Trends Merchant Services Payments 66

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting. I think that there is probably another couple orders of magnitude of growth in these markets, which is why I don’t get that energized by like, “Okay, is Azure in the lead? Is AWS in the lead? Is the Google in the lead?” What have you learned?

Sales Recruiting 148

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 148