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本季度云服务:超大规模云服务商在2025年第四季度表现如何?

信息技术 2026-04-14 伯恩斯坦 Andy Yang 杨敏
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Cloud in the Quarter: How did the hyperscalers do in 4Q25? The hyperscale market has become a picks & shovels basket to support theGenerative AIwave even though they are predominantly CPU driven businesses. Even the stock prices arebeing driven by AI sentiment. Investors remain concerned about the CAPEX growth and theassociated margins / returns of Gen AI-related infrastructure investment as AI becomes amore meaningful contributor to revenues. Suddenly, the laggard in hyperscale appears theleader in AI cloud with Google’s vertically integrated solution now neck-and-neck with AWSfor incremental cloud dollars added Q/Q. Mark L. Moerdler, Ph.D.+1 917 344 8506mark.moerdler@bernsteinsg.com Mark Shmulik+1 917 344 8508mark.shmulik@bernsteinsg.com Robin Zhu+852 2123 2659robin.zhu@bernsteinsg.com Even with CAPEX stepping up, CSPs all point to capacity constraints, before it was GPUavailability, but that seems to have shifted to physical powered up datacenter capacity.All thisushers in a slew of new investor questions: Are Microsoft and Amazon going to see a returnon CAPEX? Is speed and cost to bring capacity online the new basis of competition? Do themodel wars determine winners and losers? What are the economics of Oracle’s AI build-out,and can they rely on their OpenAI commitments? Are NVIDIA and OpenAI losers to Google orkingmakers? When will AI drive increased cloud IT budgets? Bernstein's Cloud in the Quarternote, which focuses on the largest hyperscale Cloud providers, should help investors get abetter picture of the secular issues and why results may differ between providers. Firoz Valliji, CFA+1 917 344 8316firoz.valliji@bernsteinsg.com Shelly Tang, CFA+1 917 344 8342shelly.tang@bernsteinsg.com Deeksha Pandey+1 917 344 8447deeksha.pandey@bernsteinsg.com The hyperscale market is the largest tangible market opportunity in Software / Cloud /Internet ($1.3-1.5T — see Diving into the Cloud TAM) and possibly the largest in all oftech. Bernstein's Global Hyperscale Cloud Team (Global Software, U.S. Internet, and ChinaInternet) supplies this quarterly note to help pull all the data together in one place forAmazon, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and Oracle. Wenhuan Chang+1 917 344 8546wenhuan.chang@bernsteinsg.com Updating our data through this quarter, today's note looks at the metrics each of thecompanies supply as well as our estimates through Q4 CY2025. The note also supplies ourupdated thoughts on the different companies' hyperscale businesses, where we are on AI,and how the markets and companies are progressing on what we believe is going to be avery long and valuable journey. This is the 20thnote in our series comparing and contrastingthe hyperscale vendors. This many years of historical perspective should help investorsbetter understand the trends and the opportunity. Charles Gou+852 2123 2618charles.gou@bernsteinsg.com To further help understand the long-term opportunities, we've published notes divinginto the historical trends in IaaS and separately PaaS in the U.S. and globally. We give ourthoughts on the progression of the industry (see Link). We would also call attention to ournotes that looks at the capital intensity of IaaS/PaaS based on our proprietary work oncapital intensity at Azure and AWS — What does it really cost to offer IaaS / PaaS? as well asthe impact of AI driven CAPEX in Big Tech's big spending... big returns?, Why Azure CAPEXwill slow and revenue accelerate, Microsoft Azure AI margins, Oracle: The story is betterthan we thought, with better upside potential On the Generative AI opportunity we have published numerous notes including: Can GPUintensive AI compute be a profitable business for hyperscalers?, Generative AI 101 Primer,Gen AI 201 — Inferencing, Generative AI 301 — Reasoning models, Generative AI 401:Agents, AI Infrastructure: The build-out is huge. Bonanza or bubble?, Shifting from Trainingto Inferencing impact on datacenters and 5 Takeaways on datacenter build-out. BERNSTEIN TICKER TABLE INVESTMENT IMPLICATIONS Microsoft (MSFT, TP $641, Outperform):Microsoft made a big bet on Azure, investing aggressively in a global footprintand technology innovation. Starting in ~CY2019 they doubled down on their existing AI investment as they prepared for andadded Gen AI capabilities, built AI datacenters and invested in their own chips. Despite a slight miss to buy side whisper numberlast quarter, Microsoft’s growth engine is in fact getting stronger given solid Azure growth and impressive RPO growth. Wealso believe Microsoft is strongly positioned in the case of an AI bubble because their first-party usage of capacity is rampingthanks to their diversified app base, along with third-party contracts which comes from not only OpenAI but a diversified largeenterprise customer base, and contract duration is well aligned with useful life of the equipment. While most of software isslowing, Azure is stable and will, we believe, accelerate supporting Microsoft’s strong double-digit rev