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. which feels unlikely.

Cost optimization & reporting 152

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 152

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

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. If we break this down and look at Azure and AWS independently (graphs below), you’ll see how the AWS “swings” were a lot more volatile.

Cloud 177

Cloud Software Azure AWS 177

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.”

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS Underperforming Technical Team 130

Clouded Judgement

JULY 28, 2023

AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. Powell said the Fed staff no longer is forecasting a recession. This week we had two of the hypserscalers report (Microsoft / Azure and Google / GCP), and everyone was eager to see their results.

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Next year is forecasted to be even more bullish. The role of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplace is becoming increasingly important. “45% Categories like customer success, learning management platforms, and onboarding software are witnessing increased investments. . What do these themes mean for software sellers?

Software Review 198

Software Review Software Azure Cloud 198

Clouded Judgement

MAY 26, 2023

Azure / Confluent / Datadog reported a few weeks back (they all had March quarter ends), and their commentary suggested the worst was behind us. There’s a lot more volatility baked into these models, and they’re quite hard to forecast. This means we got commentary for the first time on May trends.

Cloud 141

Cloud Azure Trends Retention 141

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The main benefits of categorizing your SaaS company’s expenses are more accurate metrics and forecasts, and getting a better understanding of your company’s overall spending. Although the conversion rates would eventually drop as lower quality leads would come to your site, you could account for that in your forecast. This is a v2.0

Merchant Services 90

Merchant Services Startup DevOps as a Service SaaS 90