Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2023

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Microsoft Azure had strong quarters with about 28% annual revenue growth each. The total customer count for Azure’s OpenAI has grown dramatically. From Coursera and Grammarly to Mercedes-Benz and Shell, we now have more than 2,500 Azure OpenAI service customers, up 10x quarter-over-quarter.

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AI Search AI Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 193

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.

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Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 146

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

It’s worth pointing out that Azure is a bit above the long term trendline, while AWS is still below (but accelerating up). It’s worth pointing out that Azure is a bit above the long term trendline, while AWS is still below (but accelerating up).

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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Azure 302

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Calendar Quarter Azure OpenAI Orgs, k CoPilot Users, m Power Platform Orgs, k 1/1/24 53 1.3 “In Azure, we expect Q3 revenue growth in constant currency to remain stable to our stronger-than-expected Q2 results.” Azure is projecting constant growth next quarter : another 30% to the $20b+ product line in annual growth.

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AI Azure Artificial Intelligence Generative AI 186

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 30, 2024

Cloud Capex in Q1 AWS $14 billion Azure $14 billion Google Cloud $12 billion These are not one-time investments, but part of a broader trend that started to occur after the introduction of GPT 3 in mid-2020 Amazon was the first to invest significantly.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And broader Cloud players had great years too, from MongoDB to Cloudflare to Azure, if not quite as crazy as at the peak of 2021. Shopify, Canva, Monday and tons of other SaaS leaders less focused on tech and startups had big years.

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Azure Cloud SaaS Trends 318

The Daily Egg

MARCH 29, 2023

Modern Requirements4DevOps is a scalable and secure requirements management solution that’s built directly within Azure DevOps. It allows organizations to automate both. The post Modern Requirements4DevOps Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Azure Management 286

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

We saw moderated consumption growth in Azure and lower-than-expected growth [elsewhere]. Segment Expected Growth Productivity 12% Office Commercial 6% Office On-Premise -25% LinkedIn 5% Dynamics 13% Intelligent Cloud 18% Azure 26% Server -3% Services -3% 2. At some point, the optimizations will end.

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Azure Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 232

SaaStr

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Second, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud all grew nicely, and are still growing like a weed — but the growth rate slowed. AWS and Microsoft Azure all reported more customers scrutinizing spend and working to manage their bills more carefully. But it wasn’t all roses this week in the industry leaders. Perhaps as it should be.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 25, 2023

Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next. Microsoft’s Azure Open AI customer base grew 4x by count, up from 2500 last quarter : We have great momentum across Azure OpenAI Service. The desire for AI is broad. The acceleration is really quite broad.

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Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AI Cloud 188

IT World

APRIL 22, 2020

Google Cloud has announced that Anthos — the company’s software for deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads across multiple on-prem and cloud environments — now supports running workloads on rival cloud platform Amazon Web Services (AWS), with Microsoft Azure support still in preview for now.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

Another 5%-7% go to core infrastructure costs (AWS, Azure, Snowflake, etc). Typically support consumes about perhaps 5%-7% of your revenue at scale (excluding customer success) in most SaaS models. It could be more or less, but that’s a rough way to think about it. So at $100m in ARR, you might be spending $5m-$7m on your support team.

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Azure AWS SaaS Customer Success 238

SaaStr

MAY 16, 2022

So follow AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Let’s look a whole level up to the real canaries-in-the-coalmine: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. And Gartner is still predicted SaaS purchase rates will accelerate in 2023 : AWS, Azure and Google Cloud say Yes. So much going on in economy right now, from inflation to interest rates.

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Cloud Azure AWS Engineering 264

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 20, 2022

Configure Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage as a destination in ChartMogul and export your activities for further analysis. For that reason, we’re launching several new direct integrations that let you synchronize your MRR movements directly into your Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure account.

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Azure Cloud Forecasting Churn 52

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2023

A few of us are seeing no macro impacts, but probably the biggest tell are Cloud platform giants — AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. So there’s no doubt things are a bit harder for everyone in SaaS and Cloud right now. All are still growing at very strong rates. But they are still growing. SaaS spend is still growing.

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Azure AWS Cloud SaaS 223

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

” Microsoft on Azure : “And I think last quarter, we said one, we are going to continue to have these cycles where people will build new workloads. Azure (excluding Azure AI) continued to decelerate, and while AWS did come in ahead of expectations, it wasn’t a blow out.

Cost optimization & reporting 154

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 154

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.) In fact, In fact, Gartner sees overall global software spend growing faster in 2024 than 2023, a very health +13.8% — and crossing $1 Trillion in total spend for the first time! But it’s not that simple.

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Merchant Services Azure Software AWS 281

IT World

JUNE 9, 2022

Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author. This week Microsoft offered up a presentation on its “ Microsoft Cloud For Sustainability ” effort, which should benefit companies trying to wrap their arms around efforts to reverse climate change and pollution.

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Azure Government Cloud 126

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Shopify , Datadog, Crowdstrike , Google Cloud-Azure-AWS, Snowflake , etc. But many will find 2024, those stretches have stretched as far as they can. At the end of the day, 2024 may well be a year of Divergent Headlines. SaaS and Cloud growth overall will remain strong. may well put up not just strong numbers, but even stronger than 2023.

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Startup Venture Capital Azure AWS 328

Tom Tunguz

JULY 26, 2022

Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure grew 40% y/y, tying the fastest quarterly growth rate in the past 5 quarters. Here are some hypotheses: Google may have greater customer concentration in GCP than Azure. Declines in some large customers’ spend may impact results more than Azure. Google Cloud Platform.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Cloud Azure AWS 175

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Microsoft Azure. Meanwhile, Azure has declined in a more steady cadence. I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. This week Microsoft, Google/ Alphabet, & Amazon reported their third quarter figures. Google Cloud Platform. Amazon Web Services. Public software multiples - 4.9x

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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS 227

IT World

MARCH 10, 2023

Developers can now integrate ChatGPT directly, using a token-based pricing system, into a host of different enterprise and end-user applications.

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ChatGPT Azure Enterprise Pricing 92

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2022

At the same time, the leaders in Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) are growing a stunning 40%. And the number of public SaaS and Cloud decacorns has fallen from 50 to 17. This puts a lot of pressure on all the private unicorns out there: We did a deeper dive on decacorns here.

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Cloud Azure AWS Marketing 318

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 28, 2023

AWS (Amazon), Azure (Microsoft), and Google Cloud (Google) all reported this week. Azure reported on Tuesday and gave us that glimmer of hope. Azure : Coming into the quarter, a growth rate that would have satisfied the market would have been ~29%. Azure came in at 31% (constant currency). Follow along to stay up to date!

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Cloud Azure AWS AI Search 130

SaaStr

MAY 30, 2024

With a PLG-heavy background, first working at Microsoft Azure and again with Atlassian, the PLG pioneers, he gives insights into leveraging PLG for the growth of your organization. Atlassian, Microsoft Azure, and Zoom are good examples of that. How PLG Evolved First, let’s start with PLG and its evolution.

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Scale AI Search Azure AI 256

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Again, epic growth but a material slowing from what AWS cited as “economic headwinds” Still — Google Cloud didn’t see a slowing of growth, and Azure’s growth rate barely budged. Azure (Microsoft): In the $50's billion run rate (estimate) growing 42% YoY (last Q grew 46%).

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AWS Azure Cloud Scale 285

Tom Tunguz

JULY 28, 2022

Larger businesses face more daunting challenges sustaining higher growth rates, so AWS numbers are expected. GCP reported 37% growth & Microsoft 40%. Q/Q Growth Rate Change. All three businesses reported a decline in their growth rates. On average, these business units recorded a 21% decline in growth rate.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Startup Azure 261

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 2, 2024

But pretty quickly, the infrastructure layer should commoditize, just as it did in the cloud where three vendors command 65% market share : Amazon Web Services, Azure, & Google Cloud Platform. The rapid growth of AI has fueled a surge of interest in the models themselves.

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AI Azure ChatGPT Benchmarks 186

Clouded Judgement

MAY 3, 2024

We now have results from the three hypersclaers (AWS / Azure / GCP). Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q1 + Early Look at Software Results Q1 earnings seasons has officially kicked off!

Cost optimization & reporting 174

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Software Azure 174

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many have used Digital Ocean at the cheaper, simpler version of AWS-Azure-Digital Ocean to get going fast and quickly. And if so, maybe that’s Digital Ocean. If you haven’t heard of Digital Ocean, ask your developer. Growth has slowed the past year, but profitability? It’s gotten crazy good. Or at least.

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Scale AWS Azure Cloud 245

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

“Yes, we actually saw quite a bit of energy coming from the Azure platform this quarter. " Here’s another insight : Google’s cloud is more expensive for customers than others : " One of the reasons why GCP is not as big as just so much more expensive for our customers to operate in GCP than it is in AWS and Azure.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure Data Startup 133

IT World

MARCH 12, 2019

You can explore its potential with the Complete Microsoft Azure Certification Prep Bundle 2019 , discounted by over 90% to just $29. The Complete Microsoft Azure Certification Prep Bundle 2019 includes access to four beginner friendly-courses that’ll show you how to use Azure to deploy a cloud-based environment.

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Azure AWS Cloud Technology 49

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

But are AWS, Azure and Google Cloud just too big for us to learn from? Google Cloud continues its march upmarket, competing with Azure. AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud is one of the greatest case studies of all time. Do they “count” like the scrappy start-ups in SaaS that have now become decacorns? million customers.

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Cloud Azure AWS Scale 221

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

Cloud Downgrades This week UBS came out with a couple research reports citing concerns in AWS / Azure growth. This brings me back to AWS / Azure downgrades. This was the worst tone that we’ve heard in years from large AWS/Azure partners, a group that usually expresses different shades of optimism about AWS/Azure growth.”

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Cloud Azure AWS Underperforming Technical Team 130

SaaStr

MARCH 9, 2022

Focusing on smaller developers, in some ways it’s been a bit overshadowed by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. DigitialOcean doesn’t want to take AWS, Azure and Google on in the enterprise and doesn’t really try. So DigitalOcean is the quiet Cloud platform that keeps on growing.

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Azure AWS SMB Cloud 230

Tom Tunguz

MAY 31, 2022

Amazon Web Services and Azure, the business units inside Amazon and Microsoft serve and sell to small, medium, and large companies in every major geography. Microsoft Azure. A broad software buyer index would be the best metric to understand how buyer preferences are changing across the market. Fortunately, it exists. So do Salesforce.

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Azure Software Startup Cloud 188

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A year ago, AWS, GCP, & Azure averaged 44% annual growth. I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. Yesterday, Google & Amazon announced earnings which completes the picture. Growth will continue to slow this year. Today, that figure has dropped to 27%.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Cloud AWS Sales Hiring 267