Computers Microsoft announces cloud platform revenue for the first time
After years of secrecy, Microsoft has made the turnover of its Azure cloud platform public. According to the figures, it generated revenue of more than 75 billion dollars in the financial year just ended - an increase of 34 percent.
30.07.2025, 23:32
31.07.2025, 05:21
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This confirms the assumption that Microsoft is the number two in the cloud business after Amazon. So far, the company has only stated the growth rates, but not the absolute sales figures.
Microsoft uses Azure to deliver computing power, storage and applications with artificial intelligence from the network to its customers. Current CEO Satya Nadella has consistently focused the Windows and Office group on the cloud business. For the current quarter alone, CFO Amy Hood announced capital investments of more than 30 billion dollars, a large proportion of which will go into data centers.
Accelerated growth
In the past quarter, the software giant grew even faster thanks to the high demand for products related to artificial intelligence and the cloud. In the three months to the end of June, turnover rose by 18% to just over 76 billion dollars. Profit jumped by almost a quarter to 27 billion dollars.
In the full year 2024/25, Microsoft earned almost 102 billion dollars. Sales increased by 15 percent to 282 billion dollars. Revenue and profit significantly exceeded experts' expectations. The share price rose by almost nine percent in US after-hours trading. If the share price were to rise by the same amount on Thursday, the stock would once again reach a record high and the market capitalization would exceed the four trillion dollar mark.
