Huawei Cloud is Huawei’s cloud services brand, delivering infrastructure, data, AI, application integration, and developer services under an Everything as a Service model. Its international site positions the business around secure, trusted cloud services and industry AI, backed by global infrastructure spanning 34 regions and 101 availability zones, with more than 220 cloud services and 210 solutions.
The portfolio spans core cloud infrastructure, databases, cloud native platforms, AI development, data engineering, integration, DevOps, serverless computing, and digital content production. Huawei Cloud highlights services such as Elastic Cloud Server (ECS), Object Storage Service (OBS), Cloud Container Engine (CCE), GaussDB, ModelArts, DataArts Studio, CodeArts, ROMA Connect, FunctionGraph, and MetaStudio, alongside hybrid and connectivity offerings such as Huawei Cloud Stack, Direct Connect, and Cloud Connect.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Huawei Cloud combines compute, storage, networking, database, and security services with higher-layer capabilities for AI development, data governance, application integration, DevOps, and serverless execution. Its platform emphasizes cloud native operations, hybrid deployment, and cross-cloud collaboration, with services for dedicated connectivity, identity federation, and application or data interoperability across cloud and on-premises environments.
Across the stack, Huawei Cloud supports workloads ranging from transactional systems and cloud-native applications to AI training, data platforms, and digital content creation. The company also positions its environment for industry-specific modernization in areas such as government, finance, telecom, manufacturing, healthcare, education, and e-commerce.
Products and Services
- Elastic Cloud Server (ECS): Secure, scalable, on-demand virtual servers for application hosting and elastic compute workloads.
- Object Storage Service (OBS): Massively scalable object storage with multiple storage classes for hot, archive, and data lake use cases.
- Cloud Container Engine (CCE): Managed Kubernetes service with standard, high-performance, and serverless-style deployment options for containerized applications.
- GaussDB: Enterprise-grade distributed relational database designed for high availability, scale, security, and operational intelligence.
- ModelArts: One-stop AI development platform for data preparation, training, tuning, and deployment across cloud, edge, and devices.
- DataArts Studio: Data development and governance platform for modeling, migration, integration, standards, and data services.
- CodeArts: DevOps and software engineering platform covering requirements, code repositories, pipelines, builds, testing, deployment, artifacts, and governance.
- ROMA Connect: Application and data integration platform for APIs, messages, devices, and cross-cloud or cross-domain collaboration.
- FunctionGraph: Serverless function service for event-driven backends, file processing, stream processing, and AI service integration.
- MetaStudio: Digital content and virtual human production platform for intelligent interaction, video production, image modeling, and voice modeling.
- Huawei Cloud Stack: Hybrid cloud platform for on-premises and sovereign cloud deployments that need Huawei Cloud technologies under local control.
- Direct Connect: Dedicated private connectivity service linking on-premises environments or third-party clouds to Huawei Cloud.
- Cloud Connect: Network service for connecting VPCs across regions over Huawei’s backbone for low-latency data transmission.
- Identity and Access Management (IAM): Access control and identity federation service with fine-grained permissions, delegated access, and SAML or OIDC support.
- Pangu Large Models: Foundation model portfolio spanning NLP, computer vision, scientific computing, multimodal, and prediction use cases.
Target Customers
Huawei Cloud targets enterprises and public-sector organizations that need cloud infrastructure, data platforms, AI capabilities, and modernization support for core workloads. Its industry solutions are explicitly aligned to government, finance, telecom, manufacturing, healthcare, education, and e-commerce use cases, including sovereign and dedicated cloud scenarios.
It also serves developers, startups, and ecosystem partners building cloud-native applications, AI services, and integration-led digital experiences. Huawei Cloud promotes startup enablement, developer programs, and partner-led innovation while supporting customer scenarios such as digital banking, online public services, industrial design, cloud-based education, and intelligent healthcare.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- Amazon Web Services (AWS): Huawei Cloud documentation supports migration from AWS into Huawei Cloud through Object Storage Migration Service and Migration Center workflows, providing verified interoperability for cross-cloud migration scenarios.
- Microsoft Azure: Huawei Cloud documentation supports migration from Microsoft Azure, and IAM Identity Center explicitly supports federation with SAML identity providers such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
- Google Cloud: Huawei Cloud documentation lists Google Cloud as a supported migration source and supports migration from Google Cloud file systems, while ROMA Connect is positioned for cross-cloud collaboration.
Key People
- Zhang Ping’an: CEO
- Zhang Yuxin: CTO
- Charles Yang: President, Global Marketing and Sales Service
- Kevin Gao: President, Public Cloud Business
- Antonony Gu: President, Hybrid Cloud
- William Fang: Chief Product Officer
- Joy Huang: President of Strategy & Industry Development
- Ken Kang: President, Global Ecosystem
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Employees: 10,001+
- Annual Revenue: ¥55.3B
- Parent Company: Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Not publicly listed
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms, 2025. Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service, 2025. Challenger in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, 2024.
- Forrester: Leader in The Forrester Wave: Public Cloud Development and Infrastructure Platforms in China, Q4 2020. Leader in The Forrester Wave: Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning in China, Q4 2020.
- IDC: Leader in IDC MarketScape: Türkiye Public Cloud IaaS 2025 Vendor Assessment, 2025. No. 1 in IDC MarketScape: China DevOps Platform Vendor Assessment, 2024. Leader in China Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Vendor Assessment, 2023.
