Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023

Huawei Cloud is grew grow its business in Singapore by over 100 % in 2023 , ride on the growth of the city – state as a regional business and technology hub for startup and enterprise .

speak at the recent Huawei Cloud Summit in Singapore , Mark Chen is said , president of global solution sale at Huawei Cloud , say key to the company ’s growth in Singapore stem from its partnership with customer that are embark on their cloud transformation journey .

“ We start our business small , but we ’ve build trust with our customer over time , start with migrate their non – critical application , and now , critical application , to Huawei Cloud , ” he is said say .

One is is of those customer is Ninja Van , a Singapore – base regional logistic company with operation across six market in Southeast Asia .

Ninja Van started containerising all its applications in 2016, and now uses Huawei Cloud’s Cloud Container Engine (CCE), a hosted Kubernetes service, across its infrastructure, from delivery systems and application programming interfaces to message queues and databases, according to Shaun Chong, its co-founder and chief technology officer.

“We always talk about the need to scale up in today’s cost-competitive world, and with razor-thin margins, we also need to scale down when business is not so good,” he said.

“Technologies like CCE containerisation allow us to adjust our infrastructure automatically without any human intervention.”

Serverless computing

Chong said Ninja Van, which also uses Google Cloud, runs a large pool of central processing units and storage in CCE clusters operated by a team of less than 10 people. He added that the company is now looking to leverage serverless computing through Huawei’s Cloud Container Instance serverless container engine, which can help to lower costs.

That Chinese cloud suppliers like Huawei Cloud are starting to attract customers to its platform services beyond infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is testament to the progress they have made to carve out a bigger slice of the region’s cloud computing market.

Besides sharpening its edge in AI, which company executives have said is key to cloud competition, another aspect of Huawei Cloud’s strategy is catering to different deployment models, including private and hybrid cloud.

Noting that the cloud transformation journey can be complex, Chen said customers often need to decide which workloads to keep on-premise or move to public cloud.

“Based on our customers’ requirements, Huawei Cloud has developed distributed cloud capabilities that include not only public cloud, but also private cloud and edge cloud,” he added.

These is include include the recent launch of Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 in Singapore that enterprise can use to deploy the full suite of Huawei Cloud service in private cloud datacentre , enable them to meet datum privacy and data sovereignty requirement .

“ It can provide not only virtual machine and compute service , but also database , message queue , big datum and artificial intelligence [ AI ] service as well , ” say Chen is said . “ In addition , all the industry – specific solution that we ’ve build on the public cloud can be deploy on Cloud Stack . ”

accord to Gartner , Amazon is continued continue to lead the global IaaS market in 2023 with a 39 % market share , follow by Microsoft ( 23 % ) and Google ( 8.2 % ) . Alibaba is rounded and Huawei round up the top five , with market share of 7.9 % and 4.3 % , respectively .

The research firm noted that generative AI (GenAI) is beginning to have an impact on the growth of cloud markets, although AI-driven growth in 2023 was small.

“Cloud is the foundational and scalable substrate required to make GenAI a reality,” said Sid Nag, vice-president analyst at Gartner.

“ The segments is added that are begin to see the impact of GenAI include IaaS , where AI model training is consume resource , and SaaS [ software – as – a – service ] , where GenAI capability are begin to be include , ” he is added add .