Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Cloud Giants Report Q4 ‘24 We now have the quarterly reports from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. They each have some of the largest cloud businesses in the world in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud respectively.

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Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 144

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

Q1 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., These charts clearly show the ZIRP pull forward, the ensuing cloud cost optimizations, and then the recovery.

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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Azure 318

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. All of that usage is creating a massive business. Amazon, Cloudflare, & Mongo announce later this week.

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AI Search AI Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 266

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Aiven provides managed open source data technologies on all major clouds. Meanwhile, we do what we do best; manage cloud data infrastructure. We enable customers to drive business results from open source that trigger true transformations. With Aiven, developers can do what they do best: create applications. Grab tickets here.

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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Payments SaaS Payments 276

Tom Tunguz

JULY 26, 2022

Today, Microsoft & Google revealed the health of their infrastructure business units. Microsoft Azure. Google Cloud Platform. Microsoft Azure grew 40% y/y, tying the fastest quarterly growth rate in the past 5 quarters. Microsoft Azure grew 40% y/y, tying the fastest quarterly growth rate in the past 5 quarters.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Cloud Azure AWS 223

SaaStr

JULY 27, 2022

But fast forward to today, and Microsoft truly is a Cloud and SaaS company, with Azure and LinkedIn its fastest growing business units! Azure and other cloud services grew a record 40% and the total Microsoft Cloud grew to a $90 Billion run-rate. Microsoft Cloud gross margins remain high at 70%.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Microsoft Azure. Google Cloud Platform. Infrastructure revenue growth averaged 33% this quarter, which is astounding considering we’re talking about businesses that sum to more than $50b of revenue per quarter. A year ago, these business units grew at 44% annually. Amazon Web Services.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 28, 2022

AWS’s growth rate is the slowest of the three largest public infrastructure clouds. Larger businesses face more daunting challenges sustaining higher growth rates, so AWS numbers are expected. All three businesses reported a decline in their growth rates. All three businesses reported a decline in their growth rates.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Startup Azure 324

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

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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Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 263

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But it may also suggest that many resellers with large sales teams looking to sustain their transactional businesses are able to drive additional software bookings. AI companies] have a real use case for the cloud which is somewhat different than what we see from some other companies.

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Cloud Azure Headcount Software Review 243

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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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Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 157

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q4 ‘23 Two quotes from the Amazon and Microsoft earnings call really stood out to me this week. Sometimes they’re classic cloud migrations. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 167

SaaStr

OCTOBER 2, 2024

So the growth rates of Cloud infrastructure leaders have been all over the place. Billion in ARR GitLab is growing 30% at $730m ARR Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud are on fire, fueled by AI But others are seeing more headwinds due to downturns in the “B2B2B” segment of tech. Cloudflare is growing 30% at $1.6

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Azure Technical Review Scale AI 282

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 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 256

Clouded Judgement

MAY 3, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q1 + Early Look at Software Results Q1 earnings seasons has officially kicked off! We now have results from the three hypersclaers (AWS / Azure / GCP). Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment

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Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Software Azure 190

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2023

So we took a look at ServiceNow a little ways back at $5B in ARR , but I thought it was worth another deep dive now for a very specific reason: Their very seasoned CEO has sees no real slowdown or downturn in their business. Microsoft also reported strong growth overall and for Azure and Cloud especially. But ServiceNow?

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Azure Cloud Enterprise Subscription 326

Tom Tunguz

JULY 25, 2023

At last, we see a change in slope in the annual growth rates of the cloud services. Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next. Microsoft’s Robotic Process Automation business, Power Automate is growing quickly, too. The desire for AI is broad.

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Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AI Cloud 238

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 2, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Today, the market seems a lot more worried about business fundamentals / growth. Cloud Giants Report Q2 We also got the Q2 quarters from AWS / Azure / GCP this week! Follow along to stay up to date! Today it’s ~5x.

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Cloud Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS 157

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Foundation Models Are to AI what S3 was to the Public Cloud Many people look at 2006 as the birth of the public cloud - the year Amazon launched AWS. Follow along to stay up to date! However, a couple things happened.

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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Azure 176

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Hyperscaler Preview Next week Amazon, Microsoft and Google report earnings and we’ll see Q3 data for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment Follow along to stay up to date!

Cloud 167

Cloud Azure AWS Software Review 167

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

ChartMogul is an analytics platform to help you run your subscription business. Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use.

Payments 265

Payments Payment Services GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Payment Solutions 265

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2024

If it wasn’t clear before, AI is the single biggest revenue driver in cloud. Microsoft’s Azure is winning share directly from Amazon. “The number of $100 million-plus Azure deals increased over 80% year-over-year, while the number of $10 million-plus deals more than doubled. “We now have 1.8

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Azure AI Search Marketing ChatGPT 213

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. Google Cloud Platform. Here are the revenue growth rates for these businesses broken out by software and infrastructure. So do Salesforce.

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Azure Software Startup Cloud 240

Clouded Judgement

MAY 31, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. And the promise of the software business model is as companies mature and go out of growth mode the profits will show up. I’m as excited as ever about the long term cloud software markets. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Cloud Software GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AI 184

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. 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. Follow along to stay up to date! It’s very tricky to predict.

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Cloud Azure AWS Underperforming Technical Team 130

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 27, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. 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%.

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Cloud Azure Pricing Payment Features 144

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 28, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. AWS (Amazon), Azure (Microsoft), and Google Cloud (Google) all reported this week. When the tailwinds of new business start to overcome the headwinds of optimization (or when headwind of optimization becomes a tailwind of net expansion).

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Cloud Azure AWS AI Search 130

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Q4 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., We then dipped below the trendline as we hit the period of “cloud optimizations,” and things have started to rebound.

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Cloud Software Azure AWS 184

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. At the same time, Azure came in below expectations. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Cloud Azure AWS Cost optimization & reporting 130

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 4, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Cloud Giants Update “What we're seeing in the quarter is that those cost optimizations, while still going on, are moderating and many maybe behind us in some of our large customers. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Cloud Azure AWS Cost optimization & reporting 130

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2022

Drift® , the Conversation Cloud company, helps businesses connect with people at the right time, in the right place with the right conversation. Using the Drift Conversation Cloud, businesses can personalize experiences that lead to more quality pipeline, revenue and lifelong customers.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 265

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Artificial Intelligence Enterprise readiness Azure 265

SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Organic search is the single most important channel for growing your business, but the tech and tactics in the space are over two decades old. The platform automates the provisioning of your application to the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), integrating cloud ops, DevOps, and security/compliance with 24×7 monitoring and support.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS Enterprise readiness 246

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2018

Microsoft has published Linux and FreeBSD for Azure. Box-out Amazon and Google in the Cloud Wars. “Every” business is moving to the cloud. To migrate enterprise on-prem code to Azure is a huge competitive advantage. Elegant on-ramp for a developer to become a paying Azure customer.

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Acquisition Azure Cloud Enterprise 203

Clouded Judgement

MAY 10, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. It shows the number of months it takes for a SaaS business to payback their fully burdened CAC on a gross profit basis. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment View draft history Settings Follow along to stay up to date!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS Enterprise readiness 261

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 21, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Next week we get all 3 hyperscalers reporting (AWS from Amazon, Azure from Microsoft, and GCP from Google). Let’s double click on Azure. Follow along to stay up to date! Q1 Earnings Season We’re on the eve of Q1 earning season.

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Cloud Azure AWS GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. I think we’re about to see an explosion of good business model AI applications in the near future. Most likely Datadog is seeing trends more unique to their own business. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Cloud Artificial Intelligence GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AI 190