Microsoft Thumps Amazon by 31% in Q2 Cloud Revenue; Bigger than AWS + Google Cloud

 Blowing away any question about who rules the cloud, Microsoft posted cloud revenue for the quarter ended June 30 of $19.5 billion, which is quite the combined total of cloud revenue from Amazon and Google for an equivalent period.

On my weekly Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings, Microsoft is that the longtime #1, Amazon is that the longtime #2, and Google Cloud earlier this year climbed to #3.

While Microsoft’s streak of getting more cloud revenue than the combined total of its two top rivals will probably be broken calendar Q3, the accomplishment is extraordinary and deserves to be highlighted, particularly because numerous people still have the misguided impression that Amazon instead of Microsoft is king of the cloud.

Now, before showing the numbers and doing the maths, the most important story is that each one 3 companies delivered outstanding leads to the quarter ended June 30, which for Microsoft is its fiscal Q4. Without question, demand for cloud services, solutions and capabilities are surging because the world’s 3 largest and most-influential cloud providers experienced huge demand across their entire portfolios as customers strive to become end-to-end digital businesses.

Here’s how the cloud-revenue numbers compute for calendar Q2:

• Microsoft $19.5 billion, up 36%
• AWS $14.81 billion, up 37%
• Google Cloud $4.63 billion, up 54%
• AWS + Google Cloud = $19.44 billion

So, blockbuster performances across the board, reflecting the broad and deep march to the cloud for businesses of each size and in every industry and in every region of the planet. a couple of thoughts on those stunning figures:

• Last quarter was the primary time during a while that AWS’s rate of growth topped that for Microsoft cloud
• Annualized cloud-revenue run rates: Microsoft $78 billion, AWS $59 billion, Google Cloud $18.5 billion
• Cloud revenue as percentage of total corporate revenue: Microsoft 42.2%; Amazon 12%; Google 7.5%
• On a sequential basis, all 3 companies saw cloud-revenue growth increase from Q1 to Q2: Google Cloud from 46% to 54%; AWS from 32% to 37%; and Microsoft Cloud from 33% to 36%.

Every quarter, we see various reports yapping about how Amazon dominates over Microsoft and Google within the cloud. And if the subject is restricted exclusively to cloud infrastructure, that’s true—AWS is that the IaaS category creator and king and there’s little question that.

But once you take the view that business customers take—how can the varied parts of the cloud help me move faster, grow faster, and dazzle my customers?—then all aspects of the cloud are included, and Microsoft emerges because the unmistakable leader.

Think about it: two of the wealthiest and most technologically advanced companies on Earth—Amazon and Google—had cloud businesses that half-moon grew 37% and 54%. And still the combined cloud revenue for both of these great companies didn't match that of Microsoft.

And that encapsulates why Microsoft unquestionably rules the cloud, why it's done so for the past 2-1/2 years and why it's been #1 on the Cloud Wars Top 10 for all of that point.

AWS and Cloudflare Add Bot Management Features to Their Firewalls

 Both AWS and Cloudflare have delivered new bot moderation highlights into their individual firewall items. The two deliveries give extra highlights to sifting through undesirable bot traffic from arriving at the application.

As Sébastien Stormacq, head designer advocate at Amazon, shares "as indicated by research done by the AWS Shield Threat Research Team, up to 51% of traffic heading into regular web applications starts from contents running on machines, otherwise called bots." Bots can go from needed, for example, observing contents or web index crawlers, to undesirable, like substance scrubbers.

The new AWS WAF Bot Control highlight investigations the solicitation metadata like TLS handshakes, HTTP credits, and IP delivers to distinguish the bot's motivation. It at that point sorts the bots by type like scrubber, SEO, crawler, or site screen. When distinguished, the default activity is to hinder bot traffic from undesirable bots. It is feasible to alter the setup to return a custom reaction by bot type or banner the traffic for downstream administrations by embeddings another header.

Two extra highlights have been added to AWS WAF oversaw rule gatherings, scope down articulations and naming. Extension down proclamations can be utilized to characterize what conditions cause an oversaw rule to run.

Marks are metadata that can be added to a solicitation because of coordinating with a standard assertion. Names stay accessible on the solicitation for its length being considered in contrast to the web ACL. Names additionally emanate CloudWatch measurements and will appear in WAF logs. This model matches a name that was added to the solicitation locally inside a similar setting as the standard:

Cloudflare's Super Bot Fight Mode expands the usefulness delivered in 2019 with Bot Fight Mode. The bot arrangements are presently found in their own center in the Firewall application under the Bots subtab. Clients with a Pro arrangement presently approach a report that demonstrates traffic that is likely robotized undesirable bots, likely human, and confirmed bots. This information can likewise be acquired through the GraphQL API. Bot traffic can be inside and out hindered or a test solicitation can be given.

Business clients approach Bot Analytics which imagines what traffic is being obstructed. With this arrangement, solicitations will likewise be broke down by the AI motor which recognizes bots that are more refined, for example, those that turn their IPs.

Cloudflare's Enterprise Bot Management highlight is fabricated straightforwardly into their firewall. This considers confining bot security to a specific way, like the extension down rules of AWS's WAF administration. Cloudflare has additionally delivered early admittance to API Abuse Detection. This element utilizes unaided figuring out how to outline APIs and recognize real traffic to additionally alleviate traffic from undesirable bots.

AWS WAF Bot Control is accessible as a paid oversaw decide inside all locales that AWS WAF is in. Cloudflare's bot insurance is accessible to all plans, including the complementary plan, with contrasting capabilities by plan.