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Earnings Release FY20 Q1
Intelligent Cloud
Revenue increased $2.3 billion or 27%.
• Server products and cloud services revenue increased $2.1 billion or 30%, driven by Azure. Azure revenue grew 59%, due to higher infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service consumption-based services and per user-based services. Server products revenue increased 12%, due to hybrid and premium solutions, demand related to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 end-of-support, and GitHub.
• Enterprise Services revenue increased $95 million or 7%, driven by growth in Premier Support Services.
Operating income increased $958 million or 33%.
• Gross margin increased $1.6 billion or 27%, 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 $636 million or 22%, driven by investments in cloud and AI engineering, as well as GitHub.
Revenue, gross margin, and operating income included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 2%, 3%, and 5%, respectively.
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