{"id":33820,"date":"2025-07-31T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33820\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:36:08","slug":"microsofts-azure-cloud-revenue-surges-as-ai-spending-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33820\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud revenue surges as AI spending pays off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud-computing business delivered another quarter of blockbuster growth, powering revenue above Wall Street\u2019s expectations and showcasing the growing returns on its massive artificial intelligence bets.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of the software company rose near 7 per cent in extended trading after it said Azure sales surpassed $US75 billion ($116 billion) on an annual basis, the first time it has disclosed that figure. That beat expectations for $US74.62 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"-_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud-computing business delivered another quarter of blockbuster growth, powering revenue above Wall Street\u2019s expectations and showcasing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-33820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}