Amazon vs Microsoft vs Google: Cloud earnings faceoff

Here’s a breakdown of AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud’s recent earnings results comparing revenue totals, cloud growth, operating income, and global market share

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Cloud Sales Growth

Google Cloud: 32 per cent

AWS: 20 per cent

Microsoft: 18 per cent

Google Cloud continues to grow sales at a faster pace than Microsoft and AWS, although it's important to note that Google's total cloud revenue is smaller than its competitors.

Google Cloud's $7.3bn in revenue represents a 32 per cent increased year over year compared to $5.5bn in Q4 2021.

AWS sales of $21.4bn represents a 20 per cent increase year over year compared to $17.8bn in fourth quarter 2021.

Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud segment generated $21.5bn in sales, up 18 per cent year over year compared to $18.3bn. Microsoft said Azure and other cloud services revenue increased 31 percent year over year but did not provide exact Azure figures.

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