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A Look Back at Q1 '25 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

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. Net new ARR added was down 28% from Q1 last year. Let’s get into some high level data.

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A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

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). The concept of guiding higher than expectations is considered a “raise.”

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What to Know About the Software Buying Landscape in 2023: What’s Changed, What’s the Same, and What Your Buyers Want with G2 CMO Amanda Malko (Video)

SaaStr

60% of respondents cited their top barriers to buying were a lack of credible content, references, or reviews. . The role of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplace is becoming increasingly important. “45% Establishing credibility is more likely to be successful via third parties or peer sources than your official website.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

Azure’s marketplace has over 4 million monthly visitors. And a lot of this depends on your go to market, but we are selling jointly with the AWS and the Azure, et cetera sellers too. We used a third party to help us because speed was important for us to get that opportunity I was referring to plus everything else that came down.

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A Look Back at Q4 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

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.

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RAG Explained: What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

How To Buy Saas

In effect, the AI now has a custom context pack to refer to. The user can verify the answer by clicking the citation, much like checking a reference. It can be used for RAG by orchestrating calls to Azure Cognitive Search (a vector search service) and an LLM (like Azure OpenAI Service).

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The Ultimate Guide to Improving Your Website Performance

Neil Patel

In digital marketing, website performance generally refers to how fast a web page loads and displays content. Website performance can also be used more generally, to refer to the overall impact a website has on a business. Page weight refers to page size. Popular CDN’s include: Rackspace, Amazon CloudFront, and Microsoft Azure.

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