The major cloud service providers are saying their customers are winding down last year's optimization efforts.
While the optimization outlook from the cloud service providers is rosy, it doesn't quite match what customers are reporting.
Google Cloud revenue grew 26% year-over-year, up from the quarter before.
Customers and cloud companies tell a different storyExecutives at all three major cloud companies said that the impact of cloud cost-cutting was behind them.
35% reported cloud cost overruns in the last 12 months, nearly half of which were over $100,000 or $500,000.
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Brian Olsavsky, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Bryan Woodworth, Woodworth, Olsavsky, Pichai, David Linthicum, Linthicum, Ellen Thomas
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Microsoft, Google, Business, Amazon Web Services, Companies
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