{"id":951615,"date":"2025-08-01T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951615"},"modified":"2025-08-01T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:25:00","slug":"microsofts-azure-cloud-revenue-surges-as-ai-spending-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/01\/microsofts-azure-cloud-revenue-surges-as-ai-spending-pays-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Azure cloud revenue surges as AI spending pays off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Azure cloud-computing business delivered another quarter of blockbuster growth on Wednesday, powering revenue above Wall Street&#8217;s expectations and showcasing the growing returns on its massive artificial intelligence bets. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of the software company rose more than 6% in extended trading after it said Azure sales surpassed $75 billion on an annual basis, the first time it has disclosed that figure. That beat expectations for $74.62 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Azure cloud-computing business delivered another quarter of blockbuster growth on Wednesday, powering revenue above Wall Street&#8217;s expectations and showcasing the growing returns on its massive artificial intelligence bets. Shares of the software company rose more than 6% in extended trading after it said Azure sales surpassed $75 billion on an annual basis, the first time it has disclosed that figure. That beat expectations for $74.62 billion.<\/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-951615","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\/951615","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=951615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}