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The Health of Cloud Spending in Mid-2022

Tom Tunguz

Google’s growth rate fell to 35%, a 29% decline from the trailing 4 quarter average of 49% annual revenue growth. GCP’s data point is less rosy. Here are some hypotheses: Google may have greater customer concentration in GCP than Azure. Why do these results diverge?

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Microsoft's Billion Dollar AI Business

Tom Tunguz

Yesterday, Microsoft & Google announced earnings. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Microsoft Azure had strong quarters with about 28% annual revenue growth each. A steady growth rate could potentially signify at least a stabilization in customer cost-cutting.

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Clouded Judgement 10.11.24 - Budget Flush

Clouded Judgement

As a result, software vendors often see an uptick in revenue and bookings during these periods. For software companies, this phenomenon can be a tailwind, as it drives accelerated deal closures and increased sales velocity, sometimes with less price sensitivity from buyers looking to quickly deplete their budgets. Cloudflare is up 17%.

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Clouded Judgement 8.2.24 - Uncertainty Everywhere

Clouded Judgement

Booking called out weakness in Europe. Overall - there’s more questions about the broader economy, and what that could mean for growth. Cloud Giants Report Q2 We also got the Q2 quarters from AWS / Azure / GCP this week! Amazon international eCommerce missed. Confluent called out weakness in Europe (more on that shortly).

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Clouded Judgement 5.31.24 - Software Sentiment Crumbles

Clouded Judgement

We continue to see the measured buying behavior similar to what we experienced over the past 2 years and with the exception of Q4 where we saw stronger bookings. Here’s a quote from Salesforce’s earnings on Wednesday: “Now let me briefly address the buying environment. Coming in to Q1 there was broader optimism.

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Clouded Judgement 10.28.22

Clouded Judgement

Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Overall, it wasn’t pretty… AWS grew 28% when expectations were 30-31%.

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Clouded Judgement 8.11.23 - Datadog Consumption Trends

Clouded Judgement

“New logo and new product bookings and deal cycles haven't been impacted by the period of optimization and we continue to see healthy growth on the sales side. From a new logo bookings perspective, we had our largest Q2 and second largest quarter ever, only behind the seasonally larger Q4 2022.”

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