According to the financial report of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, the revenue of Google’s cloud computing business in the fourth quarter of last year was $5.541 billion, an increase of $1.71 billion from $3.831 billion in the same period last year, a year-on-year increase of 44%.
Revenue has increased significantly year-on-year, and the proportion of Google’s cloud computing business in Alphabet’s overall revenue has also increased. In the last quarter of 2020, Alphabet’s revenue was $56.898 billion, and the cloud computing business accounted for 6.7%; in the fourth quarter of 2021, Alphabet’s revenue was $75.325 billion, and the cloud computing business accounted for $5.541 billion. 7.36%.
Although the revenue of Google’s cloud computing business increased significantly in the fourth quarter of last year, compared with Amazon’s cloud computing business, the gap is still obvious.
In terms of revenue, the revenue of Google’s cloud computing business in the fourth quarter of last year was only 34.4% of the revenue of Amazon’s cloud computing business in the third quarter of last year or slightly more than one-third.