Microsoft Tops Amazon In Q1 Cloud Revenue, $6.0 Billion To $5.44 Billion; IBM Third At $4.2 Billion

CLOUD WARS -- Despite posting excellent first-quarter cloud-revenue growth of 49% to $5.44 billion, Amazon actually lost ground in its efforts to overtake Microsoft as the world's leading enterprise-cloud provider as Satya Nadella's company reported its commercial-cloud revenue jumped 58% to $6.0 billion.