FY24 Q4 - Intelligent Cloud Performance - Investor Relations

Earnings Release FY24 Q4

Intelligent Cloud

Fiscal Year 2024 Compared with Fiscal Year 2023

Revenue increased $17.5 billion or 20%.

• Server products and cloud services revenue increased $17.8 billion or 22% driven by Azure and other cloud services. Azure and other cloud services revenue grew 30% driven by growth in our consumption-based services. Server products revenue increased 3% driven by continued demand for our hybrid solutions, including Windows Server and SQL Server running in multi-cloud environments.

• Enterprise and partner services revenue decreased $306 million or 4% driven by declines in Enterprise Support Services and Industry Solutions.

Operating income increased $11.7 billion or 31%.

• Gross margin increased $11.6 billion or 19% driven by growth in Azure. Gross margin percentage decreased slightly. Excluding the impact of the change in accounting estimate, gross margin percentage increased slightly primarily driven by improvement in Azure, inclusive of scaling our AI infrastructure, offset in part by sales mix shift to Azure.

• Operating expenses decreased slightly primarily driven by the prior year Q2 charge, offset in part by investments in Azure.

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