{"id":1033154,"date":"2026-09-04T07:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033154"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:32:12","slug":"microsoft-shares-rise-after-azure-sales-disclosure-ai-cloud-growth-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/04\/microsoft-shares-rise-after-azure-sales-disclosure-ai-cloud-growth-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft shares rise after Azure sales disclosure; AI cloud growth in focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed quarterly and annual sales for its Azure cloud computing business for the first time, giving investors a clearer comparison with rivals Amazon.com and Alphabet&#8217;s Google as the companies compete to meet surging demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>Azure generated $29.4 billion in sales in Microsoft&#8217;s latest quarter and $101.9 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30, the company said. That puts Microsoft behind Amazon Web Services, which reported quarterly cloud sales of $42.2 billion, but ahead of Google Cloud, which posted $24.8 billion in quarterly revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed quarterly and annual sales for its Azure cloud computing business for the first time, giving investors a clearer comparison with rivals Amazon.com and Alphabet&#8217;s Google as the companies compete to meet surging demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Azure generated $29.4 billion in sales in Microsoft&#8217;s latest quarter and $101.9 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30, the company said. That puts Microsoft behind Amazon Web Services, which reported quarterly cloud sales of $42.2 billion, but ahead of Google Cloud, which posted $24.8 billion in quarterly revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033178,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033154\/revisions\/1033178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}