Earnings Release FY21 Q4

Intelligent Cloud

Revenue increased $11.7 billion or 24%.

• Server products and cloud services revenue increased $11.2 billion or 27% driven by Azure. Azure revenue grew 50% due to growth in our consumption-based services. Server products revenue increased 6% driven by hybrid and premium solutions, on a strong prior year comparable that benefited from demand related to SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 end of support.

• Enterprise Services revenue increased $534 million or 8% driven by growth in Premier Support Services.

Operating income increased $7.8 billion or 43%.

• Gross margin increased $9.7 billion or 29% driven by growth in Azure and the change in estimated useful lives of our server and network equipment. Gross margin percentage increased with the change in estimated useful lives of our server and network equipment. Excluding this impact, gross margin percentage was relatively unchanged driven by gross margin percentage improvement in Azure, offset in part by sales mix shift to Azure.

• Operating expenses increased $1.9 billion or 12% driven by investments in Azure.

Revenue, gross margin, and operating income included a favorable foreign currency impact of 2%, 3%, and 4%, respectively.

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