Earnings Release FY20 Q4

Intelligent Cloud

Revenue increased $9.4 billion or 24%.

• Server products and cloud services revenue increased $8.8 billion or 27%, driven by Azure. Azure revenue grew 56%, due to growth in our consumption-based services. Server products revenue increased 8%, due to hybrid and premium solutions, as well as demand related to SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 end of support.

• Enterprise Services revenue increased $285 million or 5%, driven by growth in Premier Support Services.

Operating income increased $4.4 billion or 32%.

• Gross margin increased $6.9 billion or 26%, driven by growth in server products and cloud services revenue and cloud services scale and efficiencies. Gross margin percentage increased slightly, due to gross margin percentage improvement in Azure, offset in part by an increased mix of cloud offerings.

• Operating expenses increased $2.5 billion or 19%, driven by investments in Azure.

Revenue, gross margin, and operating income included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 2%, 2%, and 4%, respectively.

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