Microsoft polishes its cloud crown and increases its profits by 15%.

Tech giant Microsoft announced this Wednesday a net profit of $101.832 billion for its fiscal year-end 2025, up 15% year-over-year, driven by its intelligent cloud service, which includes the Azure computing platform.

The world's second-largest company by market capitalization had total revenue of $281.724 billion in the twelve months ending June 30, up 15%, of which $106.265 billion came from cloud computing, according to a statement.

Specifically, the company broke down Azure revenue for the first time for the fiscal year, which exceeded $75 billion.

The firm's chief executive, Satya Nadella, noted that "the cloud and artificial intelligence are the driving force behind business transformation across all sectors and industries," and that's why the company is focused on technological innovation.

In the last quarter, which ran from April to June and is currently the focus of investors, Microsoft earned $27.233 billion (up 23% year-over-year) and had revenue of $76.441 billion (up 18%).

Quarterly revenue from the intelligent cloud reached $29.878 billion (up 25%), driven primarily by the Azure platform, which grew 39% in the past three months.

Microsoft's cloud segment faces strong competition from Amazon (Amazon Web Services) and Alphabet (Google Cloud) in the era of AI, as this cutting-edge technology requires these platforms to continue its explosive development.

Aside from the cloud, the company founded by Bill Gates received a boost from its productivity and business processes segment, which includes software such as Office 365 and the social network LinkedIn, and which generated revenue of $120.81 billion in the fiscal year.

In third place was the personal computing segment (54.649 billion in the fiscal year), which includes the brand's various devices, the Windows operating system, and the Xbox console and its video games.

The results exceeded investors' expectations, and in after-hours trading on Wall Street, the company's shares rose 7%.