Candice Housman
10-29 05:29

Microsoft's Azure demand came in above their own guidance, and the $677B backlog behind it takes capacity to deliver.

Azure was guided at 44% to 45% growth and delivered 48%, with the company citing strong demand for services across the platform.

Commercial RPO is $677B, up 73% year over year, against $678B in July. About 30% gets recognized in the next 12 months, while the portion beyond 12 months grew 98%. Bookings fell 12% against large Azure commitments in the prior-year quarter.

Capex including finance leases rose 30% to $45.2B to support customer demand across the Microsoft Cloud. Roughly three-quarters was short-lived assets, primarily CPUs and GPUs, with the remainder being long-lived.

Microsoft's FY26 10-K notes they rely on third-party providers, including colocation facilities, leased datacenters, and cloud infrastructure providers.

KEEL is developing powered shell and colocation capacity, offered to hyperscalers.

Source: Microsoft FY27 Q1 slides 6, 8, 9; FY26 10-K

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