Slowdowns in earnings from the Big Tech camp have part-justified recent swathes of job cuts. It points to early signs of maturation in cloud computing, as sources of lucrative contracts approach saturation and underscore the charge to AI-based services. Recurring revenues will increasingly be prioritized over new business for AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more in the years ahead – as core operations take precedence over loss-making ‘Other Bets’ business. Total revenues at Google umbrella company Alphabet were flat at a 1% year on year increase to $76 billion for Q4 2022. This compares to a 32% revenue increase in the year ago period. Full year 2022 revenues at Alphabet came in at $282.8 billion, a modest 10% year on…