Hacker News Reader

According to Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3884500), the 2017 revenues were:

Amazon: 12.2B

Microsoft: 3.1B

Assuming Amazon continues on the same 25% YoY trend, it would be 15B in 2018. Microsoft could beat that number by reaching a 400% growth rate. That would be pretty amazing. But it's not the case.

View on HN

This is comparing totally different numbers than what is being compared in the OP.

I'm not exactly sure what Gartner includes in its "IaaS" revenue figures, nor am I sure what Forbes is including in its "cloud" revenue figures, but even Amazon's official press release [1] (which is what the OP is comparing) gives completely different numbers for 2017 AWS revenues than Gartner.

1: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com