Cloud reporters got a pitch from IBM(s ibm) the morning after Amazon’s fourth quarter earnings announcement claiming that it — not Amazon(s amzn) Web Services — leads the leagues in cloud since it plunked down $2 billion on SoftLayer over the summer.

As an IBM PR rep helpfully pointed out: Amazon’s full-year “other” North America revenue, which includes AWS, was $3.9 billion while IBM’s comparable number was $4.4 billion.

He wrote:

“By definition, even if EVERY penny of ‘other’ revenue was in Amazon Web Services — and it obviously isn’t — IBM sold at least $0.5 billion more in cloud than AMZ in 2014, and IBM also grew at a faster rate (69 percent for FY 2013). That’s on $4.4 billion in cloud revenue for the year with $1.7 billion in cloud/SaaS services for IBM.” (emphasis his)

To be sure, AWS is in the public cloud biz exclusively (well except for…