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A Look Back at Q1 '25 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

Q1 ‘25 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. And no, this wasn’t all because of leap year last year (that would only account for a ~3% delta at most) The Hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) also declined net new adds year over year, but not by as much. Let’s get into some high level data.

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Shopify Says eCommerce is Back. But AWS Says Cloud Under More Scrutiny.

SaaStr

o this was an interesting week in terms of reading the tea leaves on what’s going on in SaaS, Cloud, the economy, and all that. Pressure is definitely up, yet, unemployment remains at record lows and consumer spending remains strong. The Cloud infra side grew nicely, but growth did slow. Perhaps as it should be.

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A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

Q1 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. These charts clearly show the ZIRP pull forward, the ensuing cloud cost optimizations, and then the recovery. 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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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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58% of You Say Sales Cycles Are Even Longer in 2024

SaaStr

And AI is obviously on fire, pulling up AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc. But classic B2B SaaS is definitely in many cases seeing tougher times. SaaS outside of classic “B2B’ is often holding up well. Klaviyo, Toast, etc. just had very strong quarters. More B2B2C there. Security remains on fire overall as well.

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Clouded Judgement 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. You can see some quotes from Azure / AWS in my Q2 recap , and pasted below. After the cloud giants reported this week, the timing of the presumed re-acceleration is very much in question. On Tuesday, Azure and Google spooked the market.

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SaaS Platform Explainer: Definition, Examples, and How to Grow in the Software as a Service Industry

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TL;DR SaaS platforms are cloud-based software solutions that offer ready-to-use tools over the internet, enabling businesses to scale operations, improve efficiency, and integrate with other applications without managing infrastructure. Contact sales What is a SaaS Platform?