Business Acquisition, Equity Interest Issued or Issuable, Held Back, Number of Shares

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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Liabilities, Incurred, Cash Held Back

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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Liabilities, Incurred, Cash Held Back, Period

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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Liabilities, Incurred, Equity Interests Issued and Issuable Held Back

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Weighted average amortization period of finite-lived intangible assets acquired either individually or as part of a group of assets, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Number of shares of equity interests issued or issuable to acquire entity.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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Amount of equity interests of the acquirer, including instruments or interests issued or issuable in consideration for the business combination.

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Amount of increase in assets, excluding financial assets, lacking physical substance with a definite life, from an acquisition.

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Amount after accumulated impairment loss of an asset representing future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.

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Business Combinations (Details) - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions			12 Months Ended
	Aug. 02, 2021	May 03, 2021	Jan. 31, 2023	Jan. 31, 2022	Jan. 31, 2021
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Issuance of common stock and value of equity awards assumed in connection with business combination			$ 0	$ 5,409	$ 0
Goodwill			$ 5,400	$ 5,401
Purchased developed technology
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Weighted average useful life			3 years	4 years
Auth0
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Aggregate consideration		$ 5,671
Equity consideration (in shares)		19
Cash consideration		$ 257
Cash consideration held back		$ 4
Equity consideration held back (in shares)		1
Equity consideration held back		$ 295
Acquisition related costs				$ 29
Goodwill		5,290
Auth0 \| Common Stock
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Issuance of common stock and value of equity awards assumed in connection with business combination		5,176
Auth0 \| Stock options
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Issuance of common stock and value of equity awards assumed in connection with business combination		$ 238
atSpoke
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Aggregate consideration	$ 79
Cash consideration held back	13
Acquisition related costs				$ 1
Goodwill	$ 62
Cash consideration hold back period	18 months
atSpoke \| Purchased developed technology
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Identifiable intangible assets acquired	$ 18
Weighted average useful life	3 years