Not too long ago was earnings season for public cloud providers, with Google, AWS, Microsoft and Alibaba all announcing earnings within a week of each other. Cloud earnings bingo card in hand, we madly marked them down (Google $3.83 billion, including Google Workspace and Google Cloud Platform; AWS $12.74 billion, Microsoft was estimated at $7.20 billion by analyst Piper Sandler; Alibaba $2.47 billion). This is real money! This is big money! So we compare growth rates to determine who is really winning in the cloud.