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Microsoft Q1 2027 Revenue Jumps 19% on Azure Growth

By Drooid · Oct 29, 2026 · How we work

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Microsoft reported $92.28 billion revenue for fiscal Q1 2027, a 19% year-over-year increase.
Microsoft posted $36.63 billion net income, or $4.92 per share, in the quarter.
Microsoft disclosed Azure cloud revenue of $33.17 billion, up 48% year over year.
Microsoft’s capital expenditures rose 30% to $45.2 billion, driven by AI data-center build-out.
Microsoft’s shares rose up to 5% in extended trading after the earnings beat.

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Big Tech plans to invest over $700 billion in data centers and AI hardware in 2026.
Oracle announced it will limit AI financing to $20 billion through fiscal 2030 while expecting capital spending to peak this year.
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Meta’s debt insurance costs reached record highs as its cash flow turned negative, raising financing concerns.

History

Amazon launched its first cloud services—S3 in March and EC2 in August 2006—creating the first large-scale commercial cloud platform. By 2015 AWS’s quarterly sales reached $1.57 billion, a 78 % year-over-year rise, while Microsoft’s Azure, introduced in February 2008, grew into a direct rival, prompting rivals such as Oracle and Meta to seek financing amid the expanding cloud-spending wave.

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Amazon launched its first cloud services—S3 in March and EC2 in August 2006—creating the first large-scale commercial cloud platform. By 2015 AWS’s quarterly sales reached $1.57 billion, a 78 % year-over-year rise, while Microsoft’s Azure, introduced in February 2008, grew into a direct rival, prompting rivals such as Oracle and Meta to seek financing amid the expanding cloud-spending wave.

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