THE EXTERNAL MARKET IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR MICROSOFT
In 2019, AWS dominated 47 percent of the cloud infrastructure market, according to industry research firm IDC. For Microsoft, that's 13 percent. AWS earned $ 10.8 billion from cloud technology in the second quarter, while Microsoft earned $ 5.9 billion from cloud service Azure.
For Microsoft, the international market is much more important. While the company generated 71 percent of its revenue from its customers in the US in fiscal 2002, this rate fell to 51 percent in the fiscal year 2020 ending in June.