<p style="text-align: justify;">[Shanghai, China, September 19, 2025] On the second day of HUAWEI CONNECT 2025, Zhang Ping'an, Huawei's Executive Director of the Board and CEO of Huawei Cloud, delivered a keynote speech titled "All Intelligence: Empowering AI Pioneers for Industries". He shared Huawei Cloud's innovation and practices in AI compute services, foundation models, embodied AI, AI agents, and much more. Additionally, Charles Yang, Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, shared Huawei Cloud's innovations and experiences that are empowering enterprises to succeed in global markets in the digital and intelligent era.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Constant innovation in AI Compute Service: Unleashing powerful compute in the intelligent era</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This year, Huawei Cloud announced its AI Compute Service powered by CloudMatrix384. The specifications of the Huawei CloudMatrix supernode will be upgraded from 384 cards to 8,192 cards. The supernodes can support a hyperscale cluster running on 500,000 to 1 million cards, thus providing robust AI compute, an invaluable resource in the intelligent era. Huawei Cloud also announced innovative memory storage with its Elastic Memory Service (EMS), which achieved an industry first by expanding video RAM with memory. This drastically reduces the latency of multi-round conversations on foundation models, greatly improving user experience.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">With rapidly increasing demand for AI compute, traditional data centers are no longer sufficient to serve as efficient AI infrastructure. To support AI workloads, the power consumption of a single cabinet will need to be upgraded from 10 kW to 70 kW, and possibly as high as 200 kW, and heat dissipation will need to shift from air cooling to full liquid cooling. Huawei Cloud has deployed fully liquid-cooled AI data centers in China's Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, and Anhui. These AI data centers support 80 kW heat dissipation per cabinet, reduce power usage effectiveness (PUE) to 1.1, and offer AI-enabled O&amp;M. This means enterprises do not need to reconstruct traditional data centers or build new ones. Instead, they require only a pair of optical fibers in order to connect to the data center and access efficient AI compute, as well as full-stack dedicated AI cloud services, on Huawei Cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Zhang Ping'an pointed out that Huawei Cloud's AI Token Service abstracts away the underlying technical complexity and directly provides users with the final AI computing results. This allows users to utilize the inference computing power in the most efficient way possible. The CloudMatrix384 supernode realizes the full pooling of compute, memory, and storage resources, decouples compute tasks, storage tasks, and AI expert systems, and converts serial tasks into distributed parallel tasks, greatly improving the inference performance of the system. In scenarios involving inference tasks with different latency requirements, such as online, nearline, and offline inference, CloudMatrix384 delivers an average inference performance per card that is 3 to 4 times that of H20.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the conference, Zhang Ping'an announced the official launch of the AI Token Service powered by CloudMatrix384. The service delivers superior performance, service, and quality to customers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As of now, the number of customers worldwide using Huawei Cloud's AI Compute Service has increased from 321 in 2024 to this year's 1,805. Qihoo 360's Nano Search has used the CloudMatrix384-powered token inference service to process tens of thousands of content generation requests every day.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Zhang Ping'an noted that Huawei Cloud will continue to advance software-hardware synergy and architecture innovation, so as to build cloud services that constantly create value for their customers and always keep them up-to-date with the latest technologies. In addition, Huawei Cloud will invest more resources into AI and computing, in order to cultivate the fertile ground on which different industries' applications can run smoother and better. In the AI era, Huawei Cloud is committed to pursuing innovation in AI computing power and technologies, helping every customer become an AI pioneer in their industry.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20259/张平安2509191_1.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Zhang Ping'an, Huawei's Executive Director of the Board and CEO of Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Tackling challenges head-on: Helping enterprises build their own models</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud has been honing its Pangu Models by diving into industry-specific scenarios, and has worked with its customers to tackle their most pressing challenges head-on, reimagining what is possible in these industries. Huawei uses openPangu to provide best practices for AI training and inference, making it easier for developers to efficiently use AI computing power. Zhang Ping'an noted that, at the same time, Huawei is developing the closed-source Pangu Model. Huawei will continually increase investment in Pangu Models, constantly study industry scenarios to better understand customer requirements, and support customers in developing their own industry-specific models, thus accelerating intelligent transformation across industries.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To better align the incremental training of models with enterprise scenarios, Huawei Cloud integrates industry know-how into ModelArts, a one-stop AI development platform. ModelArts provides knowledge regarding the optimal data ratios for industry tasks, the optimal configurations for incremental training, and a system for assessing model effectiveness and accuracy.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Zhang Ping'an also pointed out that data quality determines model quality. Huawei Cloud uses the DataArts data governance pipeline to automatically extract multi-modal data semantics and build converged knowledge graphs that form a unified knowledge lake for enterprises. This provides comprehensive, rich, and consistent business corpuses for large model pre-training. In addition, Huawei Cloud provides one-stop toolchains to quickly generate high-quality tuning datasets with chains of thought (CoT) for model post-training.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">China Southern Airlines uses the Pangu Model's cross-modal prediction technology to predict passenger traffic and average ticket prices over an 18-month period. Prediction accuracy reaches 90%, significantly improving the airline's operating revenue. The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) has developed the Agricultural Scientific Discovery Model based on the Pangu foundation model and Pangu Scientific Computing Model. This model is trained using massive amounts of agricultural knowledge and tens of billions of biological data entries, shortening the R&amp;D cycle by more than 50%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Pangu Models have been applied in more than 500 scenarios across over 30 industries. They have played a significant role in fields like government services, finance, manufacturing, healthcare, coal mining, steel, railways, autonomous driving, and meteorology.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Moving beyond terminals: Enabling infinite intelligence evolution on the cloud</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This year, Huawei Cloud launched the CloudRobo Embodied AI Platform, which deploys complex algorithms and intelligent logic on the cloud to realize more lightweight robots. By taking advantage of the massive computing power and advanced AI models on the cloud, the platform makes robot execution more intelligent. Cloud intelligence overcomes the limitations that have been holding robots back, making them applicable to more scenarios.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the development phase, CloudRobo uses a cloud-based, embodied AI training data generation platform to automatically generate operation trajectories for different poses, textures, and lighting conditions, greatly enriching data diversity and increasing the synthetic data scale by thousands of times. This not only greatly reduces data collection costs, but effectively improves the generalization capability of models. CloudRobo also provides cloud-based environment perception, global planning, and autonomous execution capabilities, achieving a task execution accuracy exceeding 90%. With the support of CloudRobo, the National and Local Co-Built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center in Shanghai uses data collected from real machines alongside synthetic data to train robots, improving the overall sorting success rates of robots in multiple scenarios to over 90%, which is an industry-leading success rate so far.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To build a unified, open, and secure communication channel between robots and the cloud, Huawei Cloud has launched the Robot to Cloud (R2C) Protocol, which realizes the collaborative thinking and efficient execution of AI agents. As of today, national standards are in progress regarding data collection, data generation, and communication interfaces around the R2C Protocol. During his keynote speech, Zhang Ping'an announced that the first 20 partners of the R2C Protocol were officially onboard, including Hualong, Flexiv, Yijiahe, and Avant Robotics. Huawei Cloud works alongside its partners to develop cloud-based integrated robot solutions based on the R2C Protocol in fields such as manufacturing, logistics, inspection, and healthcare.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Kunpeng Cloud Services: Empowering industry innovation with software-hardware synergy and an open ecosystem</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">One of Huawei Cloud's key strategies is to develop Kunpeng-powered ARM cloud services that deliver performance, security, and reliability. In the past year, the number of Kunpeng compute cores on Huawei Cloud has increased from 9 million to 15 million, an increase of 67%. In addition, the Kunpeng platform has been continuously improved to support compatibility with mainstream software, and has also been adapted to more than 25,000 applications. The Kunpeng platform provides solid support for Kunpeng Cloud Services to be applied to even more general-computing scenarios, in addition to transcoding, databases, web applications, and cloud phones.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>GaussDB: Building efficient, reliable data foundations based on supernodes and full pooling</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Based on general-purpose computing supernodes, Huawei Cloud's GaussDB databases realize the layered pooling of compute, memory, and storage resources, and allow multi-read and multi-write on any node at the same time, breaking free from the restrictions of the traditional architecture where only the primary node supports data read/write. GaussDB databases also support dynamic load scheduling, greatly enhancing the performance of concurrent transaction processing. A GaussDB cluster deployed based on computing supernodes can process 5.4 million transactions per minute, marking a 2.9-fold performance increase over non-supernode clusters.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>All-scenario distributed cloud: Ubiquitous and best possible compute with local access</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud has built a distributed cloud solution covering all scenarios, including CloudOcean, CloudSea, CloudLake, and CloudPond. This covers central regions, hotspot areas, and edge sites, bringing consistent Huawei Cloud experience to wherever customers' business is located. Huawei Cloud and FAW-Volkswagen have worked together to successfully implement China's first automotive factory based on the distributed cloud solution. The solution overcomes geographical constraints and realizes comprehensive, in-depth collaboration between the HQ and six factories spread across five cities, enabling seamless data flow and intelligent manufacturing.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Building an easy-to-use, effective, and open platform for developing and running agents</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">AI agents are transforming into a new application paradigm in the AI era. With this in mind, Huawei Cloud has launched Versatile, an enterprise-grade agent platform. It aims to serve as an easy-to-use, effective, and open platform for developing and running AI agents. With this platform, customers will be better equipped to quickly develop AI agents that suit their application scenarios.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Many nodes are included in the agent development process, involving highly complex businesses. Based on Versatile, users simply need to prepare and enter business description documents and flowcharts. After simple confirmation, the agent can be generated in two steps, greatly enhancing generation efficiency. Agents automatically invoke numerous programs when they are working, causing severe traffic jitters. Versatile also uses system innovations such as high-performance sandbox and full-memory cache to reduce end-to-end response latency within businesses by more than 40%, enabling agents to run stably and efficiently.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Continuous innovation: Empowering customers to succeed in global markets</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As industries worldwide rush to embrace digital and intelligent transformation, Huawei Cloud consistently pursues technological innovation as its core driving force and is committed to providing stable, efficient, and secure cloud services for global customers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Charles Yang, Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, delivered a keynote speech regarding this topic. He highlighted the fact that enterprises are facing numerous complex challenges in the digital intelligence era. With this in mind, Huawei Cloud identifies its core positioning and adheres to this positioning. Huawei Cloud provides a holistic support system featuring "one global cloud infrastructure and two engines – one with data and one with AI" for its global customers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The first of these is KooVerse, a global cloud infrastructure that offers customers elastic cloud services. Second are data enablement services, which efficiently supply data and unleash data value. Third is a one-stop AI development platform that helps enterprises build AI-native applications and innovate with greater ease. Finally, Huawei Cloud brings together the best practices in global digital and intelligent transformation, and provides them through cloud services to help more customers succeed.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20259/杨友桂250919kn_1.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Charles Yang, Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">DeFacto, a top fast fashion retailer in Türkiye, faces a traffic surge of more than 10 times during each promotional season, and its traditional IDC architecture struggled to cope with this surge. DeFacto therefore turned to Huawei Cloud's container service, which can automatically scale up 4,000 pods within 30 seconds, allowing the company to easily cope with traffic spikes.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Based on Huawei Cloud's DWS, Neogrid, Brazil's largest data intelligence and technology company, migrated and integrated its data that was scattered across multiple platforms, improving data integration efficiency by 40% and data analysis efficiency by 50%. Today, this gives Neogrid's customers the ability to obtain the day's data before the end of work and therefore make business decisions earlier.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Based on the powerful generalization capability of Huawei Cloud's Pangu Prediction Model on industrial time-series data, Wanhua Chemical, a global leader in the chemical industry, has accurately captured data on more than 2,000 key devices, allowing them to transform their reactive maintenance model into predictive maintenance. Model prediction accuracy has improved from 70% to 90%, and anomaly identification efficiency has increased by 10%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei worked with partners such as China Unicom to build "One Cloud, One Network, One Platform" for Changan Automobile, driving flexible manufacturing with data. Changan Automobile uses 5G and IoT to connect 12,000 devices, allowing it to interconnect data from different domains. Based on the comprehensive data services of Huawei Cloud, Changan has built a unified data platform. This platform breaks apart the data silos, enables efficient production operations, and shortens order delivery lead time from 21 days to 15 days.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to providing end-to-end service capabilities that span the cloud foundation, technology enablement toolchains, and experiences, Huawei Cloud provides tailored consulting and professional services, as well as automation tools and platforms for enterprises' digital and intelligent transformation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Charles Yang expressed that digital and intelligent transformation can never be achieved by one player in a single move. Rather, it requires close, continuous collaboration throughout the entire journey. With its technologies, experiences, and services, Huawei Cloud is ready to work with global enterprises at every step of their transformation journeys.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">HUAWEI CONNECT 2025 runs from September 18 to 20 at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition &amp; Convention Center and Shanghai Expo Center. This year, the event explores the theme of "All Intelligence" and delved into AI across three dimensions: strategy, technology, and ecosystems. This involved an in-depth look at Huawei's latest strategic initiatives, and the unveiling of a series of all-new digital and intelligent infrastructure products, scenario-specific solutions for industries, and development tools.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to keynote speeches given at the event, Huawei Cloud brought a variety of agendas, such as summit forums and roundtables. Huawei Cloud also works with customers and partners to exhibit a wide array of innovative technologies and practices in fields such as cloud infrastructure, large models, databases, AI agents, and embodied AI, demonstrating how technology can facilitate the digital and intelligent transformation of industries.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">On September 18, 2025, during HUAWEI CONNECT 2025, Huawei hosted the Global Hybrid Cloud Data-AI Forum. The theme of the event was "Power Your Leap into Intelligence with Data+AI." At the event, Sean Xiao, President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, announced the release of Huawei Cloud Stack 8.6. This latest version introduces eight major upgrades across four key areas: cloud foundation, data+AI synergy, application modernization, and streamlined O&amp;M. These advancements are dedicated to helping enterprises accelerate their intelligent transformation through leading technologies and services.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Today, AI is revolutionizing productivity across industries, and the synergy between AI and data has become the core driving force behind unprecedented transformation. In his opening remarks, Charles Yang (Yongui), Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service Department, outlined Huawei Cloud's strategy to build products and competitive advantages around three core pillars: computing power, algorithms, and data. He highlighted key initiatives such as launching the CloudMatrix 384 supernode to meet the growing demand for advanced computing power; leveraging extensive data resources and targeting practical use cases to help customers build tailored vertical models and AI agents; and pioneering innovation across the entire data lifecycle, including exchange, storage, processing, and security, to unlock the full value of data assets. Mr. Yang emphasized Huawei Cloud's commitment to building solid data infrastructure, opening AI models and tools, and advancing capabilities in data governance and trusted data spaces, a mission he stated is central to powering the success of digital and AI transformation for enterprises.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20259/zhangyougui250918.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Charles Yang (Yongui), Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service Department</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Cloud Stack 8.6 released with eight major upgrades, helping enterprises build an integrated Data+AI engine</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Industry pioneers are accelerating their digital and AI transformations. Sean Xiao noted that this shift is occurring on multiple fronts simultaneously, with intelligent upgrades reshaping industries in many profound ways. To power this change, Huawei Cloud Stack is committed to helping enterprises build an integrated Data+AI engine, which is essential for driving transformation.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20259/xiaofei250918.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Sean Xiao, Vice President of Huawei Cloud and President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the forum, Sean Xiao officially announced Huawei Cloud Stack 8.6. This new version delivers eight major upgrades in four areas: cloud foundation, data+AI, application modernization, and streamlined O&amp;M.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>First, for the cloud foundation</strong>, Huawei Cloud Stack 8.6 is fully compatible with CloudMatrix 384, Huawei Cloud's AI supernode solution. This integration allows enterprises to build robust AI computing centers on-premises. The new platform also significantly improves compute utilization and management, accelerates model deployment, and unifies operations and maintenance for hardware, software, and AI jobs, thereby significantly enhancing compute efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Additionally, Huawei Cloud Stack 8.6 supports larger cluster deployments and more efficient container scheduling, enabling the quick provisioning of up to 50,000 Pods in a single region. The new version also introduces enhanced high availability (HA), including an intra-city dual-AZ solution that delivers a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of mere seconds and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of minutes. This HA architecture allows single-AZ deployments to be seamlessly upgraded to dual-AZ.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Second, for data+AI synergy</strong>, Huawei Cloud Stack 8.6 offers enhanced data and model engineering capabilities. Its data engineering focuses on three key areas: all-domain data labeling and global visibility through a converged data lake; upgrading the intelligent data toolchain; and building a data space hub, all aimed at ensuring secure and manageable data circulation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Model engineering is powered by ModelArts, Huawei Cloud's one-stop AI development platform. The platform supports a range of AI foundation models and workflows, empowering the entire process of incremental training, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, model evaluation, and deployment. It helps enterprises efficiently build their own custom models.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Third, for application modernization</strong>, the focus is on databases and software development. For databases, Huawei Cloud Stack 8.6&nbsp;has introduced a distributed architecture for GaussDB featuring three-layer pooling, significantly enhancing database performance.&nbsp;It also delivers an&nbsp;enhanced anti-ransomware solution&nbsp;along with a&nbsp;strong-consistency data synchronization solution&nbsp;for enhanced data protection.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">For software development,&nbsp;CodeArts Doer extends intelligence from coding to all six major phases of R&amp;D:&nbsp;project management, product management, development, building, testing, and deployment, helping boost R&amp;D efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Finally, for streamlined O&amp;M</strong>, Huawei Cloud Stack 8.6 has introduced significant upgrades, such as faster fault detection and demarcation, and faster fault recovery through self-healing and one-click DR failover.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Additionally, Sean Xiao mentioned that Huawei Cloud is also working with customers to jointly develop three AI assistants for knowledge Q&amp;A, data retrieval, and fault diagnosis. These intelligent assistants are designed to help O&amp;M staff boost their efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the forum, Sean Xiao released a white paper titled "Huawei Hybrid Cloud O&amp;M Modernization – Core Capabilities and Best Practices", which provides insights into enterprise O&amp;M modernization methodologies and major trends.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Joining hands with customers to pioneer new paradigms in digital and AI transformation</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">So far, over 5,500 customers worldwide have chosen Huawei Cloud Stack to power their innovation on cloud. With a deep focus on key industries, Huawei Cloud Stack partners with industry leaders to pioneer digital and AI innovation, setting new benchmarks in many sectors.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Zhang Liming, Deputy General Manager of the Operations and Maintenance Center at CHN Energy Information Technology Co., Ltd., shared CHN Energy's journey in driving its AI+Energy strategy. She emphasized that simply stacking data together is not enough to unlock its value. Instead, it requires a systematic transformation involving technology, management, and corporate culture. With the goal of improving data governance efficiency and driving value creation, CHN Energy established a "171" data management capability framework, a "dual-domain leader" data governance model, and a "1+M+N" big data system. To address challenges such as the difficulty of integrating multi-source heterogeneous data from the power generation industry, varying data quality, and a scarcity of high-quality, curated datasets, CHN Energy built a unified, converged data lake powered by Huawei Cloud Stack. This data lake now hosts over 700 TB of data specific to the power generation industry. Through rigorous data engineering, CHN Energy has curated 450 GB of high-quality datasets. This has enabled the evolution from "raw data" to "bare minimum datasets" and then to high-quality, curated datasets, laying the foundation for effective, actionable AI.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20259/zhangliming250918.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Zhang Liming, Deputy General Manager of the Operations and Maintenance Center at CHN Energy Information Technology Co., Ltd.</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Li Yulong, Deputy Director of the FinTech Division's Architecture Dept at the Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC), delivered a keynote speech titled "Driving Digital and AI Transformation with Leading AI Compute" at the forum. He talked about the close collaboration between PSBC and Huawei in building a full-stack AI computing infrastructure based on Huawei Cloud Stack. Guided by a "1+2+3" top-level design for AI computing, PSBC has developed one set of data specifications, two major dataset systems—financial and non-financial, and three core platforms—compute management, developer tools, and public services. Together, these provide unified compute resource management and AI platform capabilities for PSBC's own Youzhi Model, supporting the entire bank's model training and AI application development. The results have been significant: these platforms now power over 230 intelligent applications across frontend, mid-end, and backend operations. These include an intelligent customer service for mobile banking, a trading bot, and a loan approval assistant. The trading bot, for instance, handles inter-bank trading inquiries and matchmaking, reducing the average duration of a single inquiry to just 22 seconds—approximately 94% faster than human agents—thereby significantly enhancing trading efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20259/liyulong250919.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Li Yulong, Deputy Director of the FinTech Division's Architecture Dept at the Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC)</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Dai Hu, Director of the Business Management Department of Dongfeng Motor Group, told the audience that Dongfeng Motor built a modernized digital platform on Huawei Cloud Stack, covering everything from application architecture design and cloud-native development, to efficient asset management and circulation, marking a solid transition from essential cloud adoption to application modernization. One key component is the Luban development management platform, built on Huawei Cloud CodeArts. Luban enhances end-to-end R&amp;D efficiency across all phases: requirement management, coding, building, deployment, testing, and performance evaluation. It enables efficient, collaborative coding involving thousands of developers working from different locations on critical vehicle-mounted software, including cockpit systems and intelligent driving solutions.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20259/daihu250918.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Dai Hu, Director of the Business Management Department of Dongfeng Motor Group</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In his speech, Daniel CHOW Kai-hang, a senior engineer from the Digital Water Office of the Water Supplies Department (WSD) of the Hong Kong SAR Government, highlighted the department's partnership with Huawei Cloud Stack. Through this collaboration, the WSD built the Hong Kong government's first Huawei satellite cloud, which powers a comprehensive smart water management system. This system is critical for securing a reliable water supply for the city's 7.5 million residents. It significantly enhances the operational and maintenance efficiency for Hong Kong's vast network of over 8,400 km of water pipelines and 450 water processing plants. This achievement is now a global benchmark for water supply agencies seeking to improve efficiency and resilience.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20259/danniel25091911.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Daniel CHOW Kai-hang, a senior engineer from the Digital Water Office of the Water Supplies Department (WSD) of the Hong Kong SAR Government</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Near the end of the forum, the 2025 Global "Dive into Cloud Polaris" Awards Ceremony honored global customers who have made outstanding contributions to advancing Huawei hybrid cloud's technical competitiveness, innovation, and exploration of new business models. Winners of this award represented a diverse range of sectors, including energy, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, transportation, government, and finance.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Looking forward, Huawei Cloud Stack is dedicated to building leading cloud infrastructure by continuously enhancing its competitiveness in cloud platforms and services tailored to industry needs. Its mission is always to help enterprises build, utilize, and govern the cloud with confidence.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Shanghai, China, September 17, 2025] At the 2025 Global Public Sector Cloud &amp; AI Summit, Huawei officially released the "R.I.S.E " National Government Cloud reference architecture. Built on a robust foundation of cloud and AI, the architecture establishes secure and reliable platforms for cloud infrastructure, data, AI, and digital identity. It fosters an open and vibrant ecosystem, driving the localized management of key technologies such as national artificial intelligence. This facilitates the delivery of higher-quality public services and governance, injecting strong momentum into the nation's intelligent transformation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Solutions Target Pain Points in Public Services</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20259/李俊风250918.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Li Junfeng (Wind), Vice President of Huawei and CEO of the Global Public Sector BU</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In his speech, Li Junfeng (Wind), Vice President of Huawei and CEO of the Global Public Sector BU, said that more than 80 countries have launched cloud-first initiatives or AI strategies. Driven by cloud and AI, Huawei has built a centralized, efficient, and secure cloud foundation that supports the intelligent transformation of government and public services, while supporting the aggregation, processing, and value extraction of data.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20259/单志广250918.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Shan Zhiguang, State Information Center Director, Informatization and Industry Development Dept</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Shan Zhiguang, State Information Center Director, Informatization and Industry Development Dept, talked about global trends and China's practices. He emphasized that China's active efforts in advancing a national ICT-powered transformation and building a smart government are offering unique and valuable experience to the world.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Representatives from DPO (Hong Kong), CCK (Tunisia), Ankabut (UAE), and AIPMC (Huadu, Guangdong) also delivered speeches at the event, sharing insights on how cloud and AI are fueling upgrades across public services, education, and industry intelligence. By integrating innovative technologies with sector-specific needs, they are helping to shape repeatable and sustainable transformation paths for governments and public sectors worldwide.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"R.I.S.E" Architecture: Powering Key Public Sector Scenarios</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Hong-Eng Koh, Global Chief Public Services Industry Scientist of Huawei, pointed out that cloud and AI have become the foundation for national digital transformation. A unified national cloud allows for seamless data exchange, boosting government efficiency and improving service quality.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20259/高宏荣250918.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Hong-Eng Koh, Global Chief Public Services Industry Scientist of Huawei, released the reference architecture for National Government Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Drawing on deep insights into national strategies and industry challenges, as well as Huawei's experience from 800+-government cloud projects worldwide, Mr. Koh officially unveiled the "R.I.S.E" （Resilient &amp; Reliable Infrastructure, Innovative &amp; AI ready, Self-reliant Security, Enriched Ecosystem）reference architecture for National Government Cloud. Centered on an innovative distributed cloud framework, the architecture delivers support for core public service scenarios. This architecture involves four solutions:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1. Resilient &amp; Reliable Infrastructure</strong>: The National Government Cloud provides governments with a resilient and reliable cloud infrastructure. Through a multi-site disaster recovery architecture, a 1+7 layered security protection system, and deterministic O&amp;M, it ensures data security and the stable operation of critical applications.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2. Secure &amp; Sovereign</strong>: To address the challenges of national digital secure &amp; sovereign, Huawei offers multiple deployment models—including public cloud, full-stack dedicated cloud, and Huawei Cloud Stack. Through a unified architecture, synchronized technologies, and a shared ecosystem, these solutions support secure and reliable data storage, flow, and utilization.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3. Innovative &amp; AI ready</strong>: The architecture builds three effectiveness platforms for applications, data, and AI to achieve efficient supply and use of high-quality data. Alongside foundation models and training, Huawei provides government-specific intelligent agents and digital IDs as core capabilities of the digital public platform layer. These support upper-layer government applications, driving simultaneous improvements in public service experience and governance efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4. Enriched Ecosystem: </strong>Huawei has partnered with over 100 ecosystem players across government and public sectors, helping countries accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of public services. In the meantime, Huawei is building future-ready talent pipelines across nine strategic domains (e.g. ICT, AI, and big data), driving sustainable digital and intelligent growth.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei continues to invest in innovation, committed to delivering comprehensive solutions that address the critical needs of digital and intelligent transformation in the public sector. Leveraging the powerful synergy of cloud and AI, Huawei helps tackle key challenges and drive service model innovation. The release of the National Government Cloud reference architecture marks the beginning of a new era of "intelligent collaboration" in public service delivery.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to deepen cloud-AI integration, helping governments worldwide to build more efficient, intelligent, and people-centric modern governance systems—jointly driving high-quality development in the digital and intelligent era.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Recently, the prestigious international database conference, VLDB 2025, was held in London, UK. The event brought together leading experts and scholars from around the world to share cutting-edge research findings and discuss how databases will evolve in the future. Huawei had 18 papers accepted and delivered impressive presentations at multiple sessions.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Wang Lei, Director of Huawei Gauss Laboratory, delivered a keynote titled <em>Unified AI-Native &amp; Cloud-Native Database Platform for the Data + AI Era</em>. He highlighted GaussDB's innovative integration with emerging technologies like AI and cloud native. Wang noted that GaussDB has been harnessing these technologies to develop an intelligent O&amp;M system with automated monitoring, diagnosis, and tuning. The platform has introduced vector databases and smart Q&amp;A systems, leveraging cloud native technologies to implement a transparent multi-write architecture and intelligent routing. Looking ahead, GaussDB aims to create an integrated data platform to help enterprises develop integrated digital and intelligent applications, empowering digital and intelligent transformation across industries.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Among the selected papers, two standouts from GaussDB were <em>GaussDB-Vector: A Large-Scale Persistent Real-Time Vector Database for LLM Applications</em> and <em>GRewriter: Practical Query Rewriting with Automatic Rule Set Expansion in GaussDB</em>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">These papers delve into innovation in vector databases and query rewriting, both of which are key database technologies.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Paper 1: <em>GaussDB-Vector: A Large-Scale Persistent Real-Time Vector Database for LLM Applications</em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Vector databases have become essential tools for addressing the limitations of large language models (LLMs) and have seen widespread adoption. However, existing vector databases either cater only to niche use cases requiring low-latency in-memory search, or trade off performance for comprehensive data management.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To address these limitations, this paper proposed GaussDB-Vector, a high-performance, real-time persistent vector database, that excels in low-latency scalable search, real-time INSERTs and DELETEs, high availability, large-scale distributed search, and hybrid scalar-vector filtered search. Specifically designed for graph-based vector indexing, these features leverage an innovative storage architecture optimized for I/O operations, adapting to various dataset sizes and dimensions. GaussDB-Vector also provides novel buffering strategies to further minimize I/O overhead. In addition, to further accelerate queries, GaussDB-Vector supports product quantization, parallel search, and hardware acceleration via SIMD, GPUs, and NPUs. Experimental results show that GaussDB-Vector outperforms competitive baselines by a factor of 1 to 5.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Paper 2: <em>GRewriter: Practical Query Rewriting with Automatic Rule Set Expansion in GaussDB</em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Rewriting complex queries faster is critical for database systems. GaussDB has been experiencing limited extensibility of its existing query rewriter. This doesn't just make it hard to identify generic, broadly applicable rewrites. It is also quite difficult to program them into the system.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This paper presents GRewriter, GaussDB's new extensible query rewriter. GRewriter sits atop the existing optimizer stack to explore useful rewrites, allowing a variety of rules to work together and be selected on a per-query basis. A new rule language, G-DSL, is used to express rewrite rules so that the rewrite engine is not coupled with specific rules. To improve rewrite efficiency, a new rule index structure and a rewrite history cache have been introduced.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Rules in GRewriter are produced by an offline rule generator. With an innovative enumeration technology and a new equivalence theorem, our rule generator can efficiently identify formally verified rules that are much more expressive than prior research prototypes. For operational convenience, GRewriter also supports manual rule authoring and interactive rule management through familiar SQL interfaces.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">GRewriter has been integrated into GaussDB and is gradually being rolled out to customers. GRewriter equips GaussDB with over 100 rules with negligible performance overhead (less than 1%). These new rewrite rules have enhanced query performance for two key applications, an ERP system and a banking transaction system, reducing production query latency by 99.9% from 26 seconds to just 17 milliseconds.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">During the conference, the first Industrial Data Systems Research (IDSR) Workshop was successfully held. It was organized by the Technical University of Crete, Athena Research Center, Tsinghua University, Microsoft Research, and Huawei Cloud and sponsored by Huawei. The workshop gathered leading industry researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest trends, research findings, current challenges, and future research directions in the field of industrial data systems.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Over the years, GaussDB has steadily increased its influence in the global academic and industrial communities through comprehensive collaboration between industry, academic, and research institutions; and continuous international engagement. Its presence at this event drew significant attention and discussion. Moving forward, Huawei will continue to join hands with global partners to upgrade database technologies and cultivate a robust industrial ecosystem, laying a solid foundation for the digital and intelligent transformation of businesses.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 12, 2025] The ASEAN AI Malaysia Summit 2025 took place today. Aka Dai, Director of Huawei Cloud Marketing, gave a keynote speech titled "Accelerate Intelligence, Ignite Smart ASEAN." He shared insights on how Huawei Cloud collaborates with ASEAN nations to capitalize on AI opportunities, boost growth, enhance competitiveness, and improve social welfare through cloud and AI technologies.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20258/dailibin250812_1.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Aka Dai, Director of Huawei Cloud Marketing</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Cloud and AI are now driving national development and enterprise innovation. At this pivotal moment, ASEAN, with its vibrant energy and vision, is embracing these technologies to build global AI leadership. Despite their diverse approaches, member countries share a common goal: to create a forward-thinking innovation hub.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">"This region is not just a dynamic growth engine. It is a land of pioneers, eager for innovation," said Aka Dai. Huawei has operated in ASEAN for 26 years, and Huawei Cloud has served the region for 7 years. Committed to the principle "In ASEAN, For ASEAN," Huawei Cloud has brought significant local investments and technological advancements. As the fastest-growing cloud provider in ASEAN, Huawei Cloud has seen a 30-fold increase over five years, with annual market growth surpassing 40%, serving numerous public services, financial institutions, carriers, and internet companies.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In industry applications,</strong> Huawei Cloud follows the "AI for Industries" strategy. Collaborating with customers on real-world projects, Huawei's team of engineers and PhDs has built deep industry knowledge, enhancing productivity worldwide. From R&amp;D and production to supply chain, sales, customer service, and operations—Huawei Cloud has explored over 500 use cases across 30 sectors. In ASEAN, Huawei Cloud has successfully integrated AI into public services, finance, telecommunications, and transportation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In terms of <strong>technological innovation</strong>, Huawei Cloud significantly lowers the barrier to adopting AI through systematic innovation, making it easier for businesses to harness its power. It offers three core capabilities. First, a robust global network spanning 34 Regions and 101 availability zones (AZs), ensuring high scalability, low latency, and exceptional reliability. In ASEAN alone, Huawei Cloud operates 5 Regions and 17 AZs, offering top-notch network performance for local users. Second, Huawei Cloud features an open model ecosystem, supporting over 160 leading open-source models. Third, Huawei Cloud's Pangu models enable companies to develop cutting-edge industry solutions using a full-range, multi-modal, and innovative three-layer decoupling architecture.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">When it comes to fostering a<strong> thriving ecosystem</strong>, Huawei Cloud actively promotes the "Cloud for Good" initiative, leveraging cloud and AI to benefit humanity, nature, and sustainable development. In terms of talent development, Huawei has partnered with 49 institutions in Malaysia since 2021 to train over 54,000 individuals and aims to train 30,000 AI professionals in the next three years.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is dedicated to being a long-term partner in the dynamic, agile, and inclusive ASEAN region. We collaborate with local businesses to drive continuous innovation, aiming to empower AI pioneers in industries</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">On August 6, Gartner released the <em>Magic Quadrant for Container Management 2025</em>, positioning Huawei <strong>in the Leaders quadrant</strong>. This recognition is attributed to Huawei Cloud's deep expertise and strategic investments in Cloud Native 2.0. Huawei Cloud has been at the forefront, launching several innovative container products like <span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #3598db;"><a style="color: #3598db; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/product/cce.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CCE Turbo</a></span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/product/cce.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CCE Autopilot</a></span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/product/cci.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cloud Container Instance (CCI)</a></span>, and the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/product/ucs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ubiquitous Cloud Native Service(UCS)</a></span>. These products provide the optimal cloud-native infrastructure for managing large-scale, scalable containerized workloads across public clouds, distributed clouds, hybrid clouds, and edge environments.</p> <p><em><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20258/gartner容器报告250812.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is competitive in all studied use cases, including new cloud-native applications, containerization of existing applications, AI containers, edge applications, and hybrid cloud applications, especially in the AI container domain.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is an active open-source contributor and a leader in the cloud-native technology ecosystem. As a long-standing contributor to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Huawei Cloud has participated in 82 CNCF projects, holds over 20 project maintainer seats, and is the only Chinese cloud provider holding a vice-chair position on the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC). Huawei Cloud has donated several projects to CNCF, including KubeEdge, Karmada, Volcano, and Kuasar, and contributed benchmark projects such as Kmesh, openGemini, and Sermant in 2024.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud offers the most comprehensive container product matrix in the industry, covering public cloud, distributed cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge scenarios. It has been extensively adopted in sectors like Internet, finance, manufacturing, transportation, electricity, and automotive, delivering pervasive cloud-native value. Furthermore, Huawei Cloud container services are actively deployed worldwide. The rapid growth of cloud-native compute power is widely acknowledged by global users and continually supports customers in achieving business success.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Starzplay, an OTT platform in the Middle East and Central Asia,</strong> leveraged Huawei Cloud CCI to transition to a serverless architecture. This move enabled the platform to handle millions of access requests during the 2024 Cricket World Cup, while also reducing resource costs by 20%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Ninja Van, a leading logistics and express service provider in Singapore,</strong> has fully containerized its services using Huawei Cloud CCE. This cloud-native AI service architecture is both agile and efficient, ensuring zero service interruptions during peak hours and improving order processing efficiency by 40%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Chilquinta Energ</strong><strong>ía, one of the three major power companies in Chile,</strong> has upgraded its big data platform to a cloud-native architecture using Huawei Cloud CCE Turbo. The new platform boasts a 90% improvement in average performance, propelling Chilquinta toward more intelligent and automated operations.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Konga, Nigeria's leading comprehensive e-commerce platform,</strong> has fully transitioned to a cloud-native architecture based on CCE Turbo. This agile and flexible approach effectively ensured a smooth shopping experience for its millions of monthly active users.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Travelgate, the largest travel service aggregation platform in Spain</strong>, cut its total cost of ownership (TCO) by 20% using Huawei Cloud's optimized architecture and CCE Turbo. It effortlessly handles 9 billion API queries per day and manages up to a tenfold increase in traffic during peak hours.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Meitu, a leading visual creation platform in China,</strong> leverages CCE to efficiently manage AI computing resources. This supports the deployment and inference of various models and algorithms, ensuring rapid iteration of large-scale training and enabling 200 million monthly active users to share their life moments in real time.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Mobile Services</strong> leverage CCE Turbo Volcano intelligent scheduling and a hybrid deployment of online and offline services to boost CPU utilization by 60% and increase scaling speed fourfold. This effectively handles a 50-fold surge in traffic on Huawei VMALL and provides an agile, efficient cloud-native foundation for services like AppGallery, Petal Search, and Petal Pay on Huawei devices.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the age of AI, Cloud Native 2.0 has been fully upgraded to incorporate intelligence. Huawei Cloud is building a next-generation AI-native cloud infrastructure powered by advanced AI technologies.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>In Cloud for AI, CCE AI clusters form the cloud-native infrastructure for CloudMatrix384 supernodes. These clusters offer large-scale supernode topology-aware scheduling, PD separation scaling, AI workload characteristic-aware auto-scaling, and ultra-fast container startups. These features significantly accelerate AI training and inference, enhancing the overall efficiency of AI tasks.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>AI is also revolutionizing the cloud service experience. Huawei Cloud is committed to integrating AI into its cloud offerings and has introduced CCE Doer. CCE Doer integrates AI agents throughout the container usage process, providing intelligent Q&amp;A, recommendations, and diagnostics. It can diagnose over 200 critical exception scenarios with a root cause accuracy rate exceeding 80%, enabling automated and intelligent container cluster management.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>Cloud native is rapidly evolving toward serverless. Huawei Cloud offers two serverless container products: serverless Kubernetes cluster CCE Autopilot and serverless container instance CCI, which enable users to focus on application development and accelerate service innovation. The recently launched general-computing-lite and Kunpeng general-computing serverless containers enhance computing cost-effectiveness by up to 40%, making them the ideal scaling solution for businesses dealing with tenfold increases in traffic.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud will continue to partner with global operators to advance cloud-native technology innovations and share its successes. This collaboration will drive unprecedented industry transformation, opening up new opportunities for a more inclusive, accessible, and resilient digital society.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Container Management 2025, 6 August 2025</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Reprint Link: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.gartner.com/reprints/huawei-technologies-ltd---cloud-bu?id=1-2LKVDMQQ&amp;ct=250731&amp;st=sb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.gartner.com/reprints/huawei-technologies-ltd---cloud-bu?id=1-2LKVDMQQ&amp;ct=250731&amp;st=sb</a></em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Disclaimer: Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation.</em> <em>Gartner research publications contain the opinions of Gartner research and advisory organizations, and should not be construed as statements of fact.</em> <em>Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>GARTNER, MAGIC QUADRANT, and PEER INSIGHTS are registered trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and are used herein with permission. 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<p style="text-align: justify;">[Cairo, Egypt, July 29, 2025] Huawei Cloud Summit Northern Africa was successfully concluded, gathering over 600 government and business leaders, alongside key ecosystem partners from more than 10 countries. The Summit served as a pivotal platform to envision the digital future of the region and explore strategic opportunities in leapfrog development.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20257/beifeihezhao250730.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud has marked a year of significant growth since the official launch of its Egypt Region in 2024, which established Huawei Cloud as the first public cloud provider in Northern Africa. The past year has seen Huawei Cloud Northern Africa achieve a remarkable 140% growth, foster innovation with over 300 customers and 200 partners, and empower more than 15,000 developers to drive intelligent transformation across the region.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">"The current global AI technology transformation presents great opportunities for leapfrog development in Northern Africa," stated Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, in her keynote speech. "Huawei Cloud is committed to AI-centered innovation. We aim to lower the barrier for enterprises to use AI. We aim to provide you inclusive cloud and AI technologies that are accessible anywhere, highly cost-effective, and enhanced with industry know-how. We aim to assist countries across Northern Africa in building a intelligent cloud foundation for all industries to go intelligent."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20257/shijilin250730.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Jacqueline Shi, President of Global Marketing and Sales Service, Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Recognizing the concurrent opportunities presented by the rapid advancement towards a digital, intelligent, and low-carbon future, Huawei Cloud unveiled its "Five Inclusives" strategy. This comprehensive framework, encompassing inclusive connectivity, government services, education, security, and energy, leverages innovative technologies like cloud and AI to enable a leapfrog development for the region, making technological advancements affordable, accessible, intelligent, and secure to everyone.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The AI Pioneer with Technological Innovation and Deep Industry Expertise</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is strategically focusing on key industries in Northern Africa, from government, carrier, finance, manufacturing, education, to e-commerce and retail, to accelerate their digital journey. Felix Feng, President of Huawei Cloud Northern Africa, outlined Huawei Cloud's three core strategic measures: 1) Enable customers to effectively deploy, use, and manage the cloud. 2) Integrate best practices from China and the globe with regional insights to deliver highly valuable, tailored industry solutions. 3) Provide advanced compute and AI development pipeline to empower local enterprises to become AI pioneers in their own industry.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20257/felixfeng250730.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Felix Feng, President of Huawei Cloud Northern Africa</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Further solidifying Huawei Cloud's commitment to regional infrastructure, Jo Xu, General Manager of Huawei Cloud Egypt, announced the launch of a new availability zone (AZ) at the Huawei Cloud Cairo Region in 2026, promising enhanced, high-quality cloud services for customers across the region.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20257/joxu250730.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Jo Xu, General Manager, Huawei Cloud Egypt</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Juan Yong, Deputy Director of Huawei Cloud Global Solution Sales, unveiled Huawei Cloud's full-stack innovations, all centered on AI. For AI model and application development, ModelArts Studio, the Model as a Service (MaaS) platform, offers a full-process automated toolchain for out-of-the-box model development. Additionally, Huawei Cloud introduced an extensive array of AI-native cloud services such as GaussDB, CodeArts for one-stop DevSecOps, and MetaStudio for digital content production.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20257/Juan Yong250725.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Juan Yong, Deputy Director of Global Solution Sales, Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To address the stringent requirements of government and enterprise customers for security, reliability, and agility, Hu Hang, General Manager of Global Business at Huawei Hybrid Cloud, released Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5. This hybrid cloud solution provides over 120 out-of-the-box, locally deployed cloud services, meeting the growing demands for cutting-edge technologies like cloud native, data lake, and AI.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20257/huhang250730.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Hu Hang, General Manager of Global Business, Huawei Hybrid Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Strengthening the Ecosystem with Innovation for Sustainable Development</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud continues to uphold its "Cloud for Good" philosophy, leveraging cloud and AI technologies to benefit communities, the environment, and sustainable development. Dai Libin, Director of Huawei Cloud Marketing, showcased how Huawei's "Cloud for Good" initiative is transforming Egypt, spotlighting the impactful Startup Program. Take Intella, a trailblazing startup dedicated to crafting the world's most accurate Arabic speech-to-text engine. Leveraging Huawei Cloud's resources—including cloud vouchers, cutting-edge Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, and ModelArts for one-stop AI development—Intella supercharged data training and model inference processes. Today, their Arabic model spans an impressive 25 dialects, setting new benchmarks in linguistic innovation.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20257/aka250730.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Aka Dai, Director of Huawei Cloud Marketing</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In talent cultivation, Huawei Cloud has forged partnerships with the IT Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), National Telecommunication Institute (NTI), Information Technology Institute (ITI), and leading universities in Egypt. At today's Summit, a new program "Egypt Developers Community Appointment" was launched, which integrates cutting-edge knowledge in AI, cloud computing, 5G, and big data into university curricula, while offering training in soft skills and freelancing basics, thereby expanding career pathways for participants. A prime example of these talent efforts is Manetho, the champion of the Huawei Developer Competition Egypt 2024, whose AI-powered hieroglyphics translation app has significantly grown its user base, media exposure, and revenue after they won the competition. Manetho's app is currently in use at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization and is slated for deployment at the Grand Egyptian Museum.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud reaffirms its commitment to collaborating with more customers and partners, accelerating the intelligent transformation of Northern Africa across education, government services, connectivity, and security.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Singapore, July 17, 2025] The Huawei Cloud Singapore Summit 2025, themed "Accelerate Intelligence, Ignite Smarter Future," brought together over 500 representatives from government, business, and technology sectors today. Attendees discussed how moving from basic cloud adoption to full-scale intelligence can significantly enhance enterprise productivity, enabling businesses to thrive in today's complex and dynamic environment.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In a world of growing uncertainties, digitalization remains the most effective way to address challenges. Sunny Shang, President of Huawei Cloud Asia Pacific, highlighted Singapore's crucial role as a global innovation hub, particularly in the intelligent era. Singapore is home to Huawei Cloud's unique five local Available Zones (AZ) deployment, which delivers the highest possible level of service continuity. On the journey of intelligence and transformation with partners, Huawei acts as a bridge for innovative solutions and industry expertise exchange between Singapore and the rest of the world.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/unclassification/20257/shanghaifeng250717.jpg" width="500"></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Sunny Shang, President of Huawei Cloud Asia Pacific</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Maxi Wang, CEO of Huawei International, stated "In the era of intelligence, Singapore has always valued practical innovation, the kind that lifts productivity, streamlines operations, and empowers every individual to grow. At Huawei, we see it the same way. We are here to bring global best practices to help Singapore enterprises scale, modernize, and go beyond boundaries with our cloud. We are equally focused on people. We will continue working with our industry and higher education partners to equip the local workforce with globally competitive skills, helping them stay relevant across both East and West in a fast-changing world."</p> <p><strong><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/unclassification/20257/wangzhitong250717.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Maxi Wang, CEO of Huawei International</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Deepening Technology Roots in Industry Practices</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Over the years, Huawei Cloud's engineers and PhDs have been working directly at customer sites, testing devices in coal mines, monitoring blast furnace parameters in steel mills, and observing outpatient diagnosis and treatment processes in hospitals. This hands-on experience has provided valuable insights, which are then integrated into customer business scenarios to boost production efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Gigi Hu, Managing Director of Huawei Cloud Singapore, outlined how Huawei Cloud will continuously provide professional services to key industries in Singapore, including the public sector, fintech, internet companies, and large enterprises. First, strategic resources will be invested in consulting, planning, solution design, delivery, service, and R&amp;D support. The goal is to assist 10 major enterprises in implementing multi-cloud strategies, enhancing business resilience, and achieving cloud neutrality. Second, Huawei Cloud's practices from China and its global operations, alongside industry partnerships, will support more than 50 Singaporean companies upgrade from cloud adoption to intelligent transformation. Third, Huawei Cloud is working with over 100 high-quality partners worldwide to serve the Singapore market and support local partners in expanding their international presence.</p> <p><strong><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/unclassification/20257/huweiqi250717.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Gigi Hu, Managing Director of Huawei Cloud Singapore</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At industry workshops held during the summit, Huawei Cloud and its ecosystem partners showcased a wealth of industry practices across sectors. In collaboration with public sectors, Huawei Cloud leverages cloud and intelligent technologies to transform government services, enhancing administrative efficiency and fostering the implementation of people-centric innovative services in Singapore. Internet companies like Grab and Minimax discussed cloud native innovations in areas such as e-commerce scalability and global entertainment acceleration. In FinTech, Huawei Cloud, Criat, DolphinDB, and Cobo shared cutting-edge trends and best practices in credit risk management, intelligent data analysis, and digital asset hosting. For large enterprises aiming to drive digital transformation through a multi-cloud strategy, Huawei is partnering with Kingdee and Transwarp to optimize production processes and intelligent marketing, accelerating service innovation at scale.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Where Technology Innovation Meets Business Needs</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Intelligence is now an established trend and a core driver for enterprise innovation and growth. While many customers have embraced cloud, the proliferation of SaaS tools has often led to data silos. The key challenge in the intelligent era is how to effectively leverage the data accumulated on the cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Aka Dai, Director of Huawei Cloud Marketing, introduced Huawei Cloud's full-stack innovation for the intelligent era, offering one-stop service capabilities that enable customers to fully utilize data and intelligence in the cloud. This encompasses several critical aspects. First, the integration of data and intelligence helps customers use data more wisely. For example, Huawei Cloud's data engineering service and KooSearch Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solution enable enterprises to fully unleash the potential of their data. Second, Huawei Cloud infuses intelligence across business functions—including R&amp;D, production, supply, and sales—helping organizations turn innovative ideas into tangible results through Huawei Cloud's cloud services and toolchains. At the application innovation level, Huawei Cloud provides CodeArts, a one-stop DevSecOps platform. This platform supports the entire lifecycle of software development and incorporates AI features. For example, CodeArts Doer for Coding can autonomously generate, explain, check, and comment on code, significantly boosting software development efficiency.</p> <p><strong><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/unclassification/20257/aka250717.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Aka Dai, Director of Huawei Cloud Marketing</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Building an Innovation Powerhouse Together</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Singapore plays a vital role bridging East and West. Similarly, Huawei Cloud serves as a global platform powered with an open, versatile ecosystem comprising 500 technology partners and 50 service partners in Singapore.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud brings new technologies to Singapore and helps Singaporean partners expand globally. For example, Singaporean local partner WIZ.AI has deepened its cooperation with Huawei Cloud, expanding its business into the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia. China's leading fintech company, Sunline, has also established a presence in Singapore, with its customer service fully validated in the local market.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is also committed to integrating technological innovation in everyday life, nature conservation, and sustainable development. Frank Guo, Managing Director of Huawei International, shared several cases illustrating the tangible impact of the "Cloud for Good" philosophy. Naturally, this effort hinges on digital talent. In Singapore, Huawei is actively promoting the next generation of innovators through initiatives like Tech4City, which encouragesyouth and startups to apply technology for public good. A notable example is SafeGuardSG, an emergency response platform developed by local students which uses AI to improve real-time coordination and community safety. FingerDance, a startup supported by Huawei Cloud's incubator, has collaborated with SBS Transit and jointly launched the Sign Language Virtual Assistant SiLVia. SiLViA is being trialled at the North East Line Chinatown MRT Station in Singapore, helping hard-of-hearing commuters to travel independently and safely on public transport. PrimePlay, the winner of Huawei Tech4City 2024, combines games and sensing devices to create a more engaging and effective fitness experience for seniors. Moving forward, Huawei Cloud will continue to collaborate with more customers and partners to accelerate Singapore's digitalization in healthcare, green and low-carbon development, and digital talent cultivation.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/unclassification/20257/guohanxin250717_1.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Frank Guo, Managing Director of Huawei International</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The summit also includes exhibition areas where visitors can experience cutting-edge technologies such as digital human and smart magic mirrors, alongside the latest technological advancements in GaussDB, big data, and ModelArts. Leading partners including NXAI, Yonyou, Kingdee, and Freedo, shared their experiences and ideas to foster collaborative innovation.</p>