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Re:Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue by JeromeLon on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:59PM (#18384385)
According to Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3884500), the 2017 revenues were:

Amazon: 12.2B

Microsoft: 3.1B

Assuming Amazon continues on the same 25% YoY trend, it would be 15B in 2018. Microsoft could beat that number by reaching a 400% growth rate. That would be pretty amazing. But it's not the case.

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Re:Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue by txcwpalpha on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:30PM (#18384635)
This is comparing totally different numbers than what is being compared in the OP.

I'm not exactly sure what Gartner includes in its "IaaS" revenue figures, nor am I sure what Forbes is including in its "cloud" revenue figures, but even Amazon's official press release [1] (which is what the OP is comparing) gives completely different numbers for 2017 AWS revenues than Gartner.

1: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...

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