Huawei Cloud expands AI-native strategy with 50% overseas growth at MWC 2025

Huawei Cloud is aggressively expanding its AI-native approach with a comprehensive set of cloud services designed to drive intelligent transformation across industries. At MWC 2025, the company unveiled new solutions that reflect its two-pronged strategy: enhancing cloud services with AI and building specialized platforms for AI development. This strategic focus comes at a time when the company is experiencing over 50% overseas growth and gaining traction with carriers, financial institutions, and other sectors worldwide.

The big picture: Huawei Cloud is positioning itself at the intersection of AI and cloud computing with its “Accelerate Intelligence, Amplify Success” strategy unveiled at MWC 2025 in Barcelona.

• The company is emphasizing that AI development doesn’t necessarily require enormous budgets, suggesting organizations can leverage open source achievements to build their own models cost-effectively.
• This approach comes as countries and companies increasingly place AI at the core of their strategic priorities.

Key AI strategy: Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, outlined a dual-focused AI-Native approach that encompasses both enhancing existing services and creating specialized AI development infrastructure.

• The “AI for Cloud” initiative aims to transform all Huawei Cloud services into intelligent offerings enhanced by AI capabilities.
• The complementary “Cloud for AI” strategy focuses on building optimized platforms for AI development, including specialized compute architecture, data management, model tools, and professional services.

Growth trajectory: Huawei Cloud reported significant international expansion in 2024, with overseas business growing by more than 50%.

• The company has established itself as a preferred digital transformation partner for over 140 carriers and 500 financial institutions globally.
• This growth underscores the market’s receptiveness to Huawei’s enterprise-focused cloud and AI solutions.

Industry-specific solutions: Huawei Cloud is tailoring its offerings to address the unique challenges and requirements of various sectors.

• For carriers, the company is focusing on new connection solutions that likely leverage AI to enhance network operations and services.
• Other vertical-focused offerings include smart governance tools for governments, digital core solutions for financial institutions, intelligent content generation for media companies, smart retail technologies, and IoV and autonomous driving solutions for the automotive industry.

New offerings: At MWC 2025, Huawei Cloud unveiled several new services spanning enterprise IT, security, database management, and AI capabilities.

• The enterprise solutions include CloudDC, IT Cloud Migration, and Backup & Disaster Recovery Continuity Center offerings designed to modernize corporate infrastructure.
• Security-focused offerings such as the Large Model Security Solution and Cloud Multilayer Ransomware Protection address growing concerns about AI safety and cybersecurity threats.
• The company also introduced database solutions (GaussDB & TaurusDB), AI Cloud Service, Cloud Search Service, and automotive-focused Cloud Device and KooVehicle offerings to round out its ecosystem.