Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

This has all resulted in the median stock price declining 5% YTD. It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. To calculate implied ARR I take the subscription revenue in a quarter and multiply it by 4.

Cloud 177

Cloud Software Azure AWS 177

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Dive Brief: Usage-based pricing has grown 32% this year and now 45% of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies use it all or in part, up from 34%, an OpenView survey shows. The subscription in the earlier model was a little bit more like shelfware,” the company’s CFO, Chitra Balasubramanian, told CFO Dive. Pricing model growth.

Subscription 52

Subscription Payment Features Pricing SaaS 52

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 27, 2023

Azure (Microsoft) Quarter The week the first of the cloud giants reported - Azure. Early Look at 2023 Guides Given the Azure weakness reported on Tuesday, all software tumbled Wednesday morning with most names down 5-10%. Companies that do not disclose subscription rev have been left out of the analysis and are listed as NA.

Cloud 141

Cloud Azure Pricing Subscription 141

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 9, 2023

Very healthy new business (new customer) acquisition. Usage on Snowflake is driven by queries run on Snowflake Azure: Neutral Tone With Strength in AI Overall I’d characterize Azure’s quarter as a net positive. They guided to 26-27% growth in Azure in Q2 (with 1% coming from AI).

Trends 130

Trends Cloud Azure AWS 130

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Then, we moved to a more customer-friendly model with SaaS and subscription-based pricing. What’s evolved over the years and is driven by hyper-scalers like Google Azure, AWS, Twilio, and Stripe is the consumption-based model. The first might be market acquisition. But we do know that incentives drive behavior.

Compensation 159

Compensation Sales Azure AWS 159

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

And once a customer has paid back the initial acquisitions costs to acquire it, all future streams of revenue can loosely be described as a cash flow annuity. ” Let’s look at consumption revenue - this is also not technically recurring! It’s probably better described as re-occurring vs recurring.

AI 183

AI Revenue Cloud Technical Advisors 183

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 20, 2023

On the Microsoft earnings call they said (related to Azure): “But at some point, workloads just can't be optimized much further. The market is clearly pricing in lower rates + reacceleration of growth. To calculate implied ARR I take the subscription revenue in a quarter and multiply it by 4.

Cloud 161

Cloud Software Benchmarks Scale 161