Frost & Sullivan in collaboration with LeadLeo released the '2024 China Industry Cloud Public Cloud Market Report'

With the continuous development of cloud computing technology and the optimization of policy environment, public cloud services are gradually breaking through the limitations of the internet industry, penetrating widely into traditional industries such as finance, manufacturing, automotive, and healthcare, becoming an important driving force for enterprise digital transformation. Industries are accelerating the application of cloud services, focusing on enhancing core competitiveness such as data analysis capabilities, process automation, and remote collaboration. By empowering technology, they significantly improve operational efficiency, open up new business models and value creation spaces, and push industries into a new stage of application deepening and value innovation.

In the process of serving the Chinese domestic market and helping Chinese enterprises go global, industry cloud applications on public clouds are becoming increasingly mature, and their technical advantages and service value are becoming evident. As an important support for enterprise digital transformation and international expansion, public clouds provide more efficient resource allocation capabilities, stronger data processing capabilities, and more flexible global service solutions for various industries. Whether it is improving domestic market operational efficiency or supporting enterprises in meeting complex cross-border needs during their overseas expansion, the application value of public clouds is continuously expanding and has become an important driving force for industry innovation and development.

E-commerce public clouds bring various values to e-commerce enterprises. Firstly, they can reduce investment costs in hardware and infrastructure, enhancing system reliability and security. Secondly, they provide flexible resource elasticity, allowing for rapid adaptation to changes in user needs, improving user experience. They can also be used for precise marketing, enhancing marketing efficiency. In addition, public clouds can achieve full-channel integration, improving operational management's data analysis capabilities. Lastly, public clouds can provide a more complete security and compliance system, ensuring the stable operation of e-commerce businesses. Overall, e-commerce public clouds bring cost reduction, efficiency improvement, optimized user experience, and enhanced security compliance to enterprises, helping to enhance their competitiveness.

The media and entertainment industry can obtain various benefits from public cloud services. Firstly, public clouds help enterprises reduce their hardware infrastructure investment while providing flexible resource elasticity, making businesses more agile. Secondly, public clouds support integrated operations across all channels and offer powerful data analysis capabilities, enhancing the enterprise's operational management capabilities. In addition, public clouds also provide strong security and compliance guarantees for the enterprise's business operations. Lastly, using public clouds can effectively reduce IT costs and improve operational efficiency. Overall, media and entertainment enterprises have gained significant advantages in cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and operational control by deploying and utilizing public cloud services, thereby enhancing their market competitiveness.

The application of public cloud in the gaming industry has demonstrated significant value, especially in terms of resource elasticity, cost control, global coverage, and security. Firstly, the gaming industry has a highly dynamic demand for computing resources with high concurrency characteristics. Game servers need to handle a large amount of real-time data processing, including game internal data and player behavior data. Compared to traditional infrastructure, public cloud can quickly allocate resources through elastic scaling to meet these ever-changing needs. In addition, the gaming industry faces security challenges such as DDoS attacks and cheating. The advanced security protection services provided by public cloud can effectively mitigate these threats and ensure the stability and security of game operations. Therefore, public cloud performs better than traditional computing models in these key areas, greatly enhancing the technical operation capabilities of the gaming industry.

However, despite the many advantages that public cloud has brought to the gaming industry, there are still some pain points that need to be addressed. For example, although public cloud can effectively alleviate issues such as high costs, low resource utilization, and poor scalability of traditional data centers, these challenges have not been completely eliminated, especially in terms of continuous resource optimization, which still requires further improvement. In addition, although public cloud provides global coverage services, in some regions, particularly those with weak network infrastructure, there may be insufficient coverage. These problems mean that there is room for improvement in the application of public cloud in the gaming industry. Nevertheless, by providing an efficient and economical game development environment, rapid resource deployment, and flexible scalability, public cloud has significantly reduced development costs and cycles, and supports personalized game operation services, becoming a core tool driving the development of the gaming industry.

The application of public cloud services in the automotive industry spans multiple key areas, especially in supporting the research and development of autonomous driving technology and connected vehicle applications, where it demonstrates its significant value. At the PaaS level, cloud services provide development environments and tools, facilitating the development and deployment of customized applications, especially playing a core role in autonomous driving technology research platforms. At the IaaS level, public clouds offer powerful computing resources, storage space, and network facilities to meet the automotive industry's demand for large-scale data processing, especially crucial in connected vehicle data management and autonomous driving algorithm training. In addition, for travel services, public clouds enhance driving safety by integrating GPS positioning, road condition information, and vehicle health monitoring functions, and optimize fleet management efficiency and service quality through big data analysis, promoting the development of intelligent travel services.

In the research and development of autonomous driving technology, the collection and processing of massive data are core links. Public clouds enable rapid iteration and optimization of machine learning models through highly available and scalable data processing architectures. Connected vehicles leverage the efficient connectivity and data exchange capabilities of public clouds to achieve information sharing between vehicles and seamless integration with cloud services, further enhancing the response capability and coordination efficiency of intelligent transportation systems. In digital marketing, public clouds enable automotive brands to precisely formulate personalized marketing strategies through AI and big data analysis, while continuously improving vehicle performance through remote OTA updates, thereby maintaining high customer satisfaction and enhancing market competitiveness.

The application of public cloud in the financial industry has significant advantages, especially in terms of security, availability, performance, scalability, and innovation capabilities, far surpassing traditional computing infrastructure. Financial institutions can leverage the advanced data processing capabilities and AI technology of public cloud to drive business growth and innovation, especially in areas such as marketing, risk control, and operations, where big data applications are realized. At the same time, cloud-based AI capabilities enable financial enterprises to build innovative service systems such as intelligent customer service, financial contact robots, and face recognition, thereby enhancing customer experience and business efficiency.

Although public clouds have brought tremendous application value to the financial industry, they also face some unique challenges. The financial industry needs to handle large amounts of sensitive data and is constrained by strict regulatory requirements (such as PCI-DSS, GDPR, etc.), which increases the difficulty and cost of cloud migration. In addition, financial businesses require extremely high availability and disaster recovery capabilities, traditional local infrastructure has shortcomings in flexibility and scalability, and cannot meet the low latency and high performance requirements in scenarios such as high-frequency trading. To meet these needs, financial institutions need to carefully select cloud service providers and ensure comprehensive guarantees in terms of security, compliance, performance, etc., to fully unleash the potential of public clouds.

The application of public cloud in the life and health industry has demonstrated significant value, especially in supporting high-performance computing. It meets the industry's needs for key tasks such as genome analysis, molecular dynamics simulation, genome sequencing, medical image processing, and clinical trial data analysis. The life and health industry faces a huge amount of data processing, and traditional computing infrastructure often struggles to adapt to its rapidly growing data demands in terms of storage capacity and processing power. Moreover, hardware upgrades are costly and time-consuming, leading to lagging response speeds. In contrast, public cloud provides highly flexible and scalable computing and storage resources that can effectively support centralized data storage, efficient analysis, and sharing, significantly improving service quality and operational efficiency.

In addition, the security measures and compliance services provided by public cloud service providers can ensure the security and privacy protection of life and health data, thereby reducing the risks of data leakage and compliance violations. At the same time, public cloud reduces the IT infrastructure investment and maintenance costs for life and health institutions, allowing them to focus more on their core business, especially accelerating drug research and development and innovation. Overall, public cloud provides strong technical support for the life and health industry, enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of industry operations, and demonstrating broad application prospects and significant strategic value.

The application value of public cloud in the local lifestyle industry is significant, especially in enhancing system resilience and resource allocation efficiency. Due to the high concurrency requirements, strong volatility, and geographical sensitivity of the local lifestyle industry, public cloud can provide flexible computing resources and data storage capabilities to optimize platform operational efficiency. By centrally managing and processing data, public cloud not only ensures data security and reliability but also enables dynamic resource adjustments to ensure efficient response and data sharing across different business scenarios.

However, the application of public cloud in the local lifestyle industry also faces certain challenges. Traditional infrastructure has poor resource management and scalability when facing rapid growth, often leading to performance bottlenecks. Although public cloud has advantages in resource scheduling and performance scaling, it still relies on specialized IT support and a longer deployment cycle for requests sensitive to geographical location. In addition, large-scale hardware pre-purchase and deployment can lead to resource waste. To address these challenges, public cloud service providers need to optimize technology and services, improve deployment flexibility, and strengthen data security, while local lifestyle platforms need to reasonably select cloud services based on actual needs to drive business growth.

In the competitive landscape of China's public cloud market and for helping Chinese enterprises go global, industry-leading companies such as Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud firmly occupy a dominant position in the market due to their profound technical accumulation, precise grasp of industry trends, and rich market operation experience. They have become important suppliers for cloud service applications in several key industries. These companies not only lead digital transformation in the domestic market but also demonstrate outstanding technical and service capabilities in helping Chinese enterprises go global, providing strong support for business expansion in international markets.

Through strong technology research and development capabilities and continuous innovation, these leading enterprises have transformed their technological advantages into market competitiveness, precisely meeting the diverse needs of different industries and regional markets. Domestically, they have promoted digital transformation and intelligent upgrading in traditional industries such as finance, manufacturing, and retail; internationally, by providing global cloud infrastructure and industry solutions, they have helped Chinese enterprises expand cross-border business and enhance their international competitiveness. Relying on technological innovation and service optimization, these enterprises have played a core role in improving operational efficiency and promoting data-driven business model innovation, injecting strong momentum into the sustainable development of the industry and the global digital future.