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Get in touch with us nowIn the first quarter of financial year 2025, Microsoft Azure revenue growth stood at 33 percent. Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing service that is used for creating a variety of scalable solutions for different use-cases. Azure's biggest competitors are Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud.
Microsoft does not publish exact details of revenue derived from Azure. Instead, revenues from Azure are integrated in its intelligent cloud segment, which consists of public, private, and hybrid server products and cloud services. In 2021, the intelligent cloud segment generated revenues of over 60 billion U.S. dollars, with Azure driving up server products and cloud services revenues specifically. However, Microsoft’s intelligent cloud also features other high-value products, including consulting services and premier support services.
Through its Azure platform, Microsoft offers a variety of different cloud computing resources to its customers, including virtual desktop, SQL database, or serverless Kubernetes. In mid-2021, there were a total of almost 16,000 products and services offered on the Microsoft Azure marketplace, with the majority listed under the IT and management tools category. The market has responded well to Azure's pricing strategy, with nearly a third of all respondents to a global survey of IT professionals rating Azure as providing the best value for money, more than any other provider
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