Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion

Microsoft has never disclosed Azure’s quarterly revenue in dollars. It has typically only shared a growth percentage or described revenue dollar milestones in vague ways. But on Wednesday, when it posted another record-breaking quarter, it reported that Azure brought in a healthy $33.2 billion in revenue for the July–September quarter, up 48% from a year earlier.

The disclosure lets investors line up Azure’s performance more directly against Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, whose parent companies already report cloud revenue in dollars every quarter.

Alphabet, which also reported earnings on Wednesday, said Google Cloud brought in $30.7 billion in the same quarter, putting Azure slightly ahead. But Google Cloud, which also includes Google’s Workspace subscriptions, roughly doubled its revenue from a year earlier, growing about twice as fast as Azure, according to TechCrunch’s calculations.

Azure, where businesses rent computing power to run applications, SaaS, and to build and run AI models, is now Microsoft’s largest and fastest-growing product line by the company’s own figures. It accounted for roughly 36% of Microsoft’s $92.3 billion in quarterly revenue.

Azure’s revenue was also about $850 million more than the $32.3 billion analysts expected. Azure’s 48% growth rate also topped the 44% to 45% that Microsoft CFO Amy Hood forecast on the company’s July earnings call.