Aerial photo taken on March 1, 2022 shows a cloud computing base in Zhongwei City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)
BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- China's cloud infrastructure service expenditure grew 21 percent year on year to reach 7.3 billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter of this year, according to a report released on Wednesday by Canalys, a global technology market research firm.
The top four cloud service providers in China during the period were Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud and Baidu AI Cloud, which took up a market share of 36.7 percent, 18.0 percent, 15.7 percent and 8.4 percent, respectively.
The accelerated deployment of China's new infrastructure plan and enterprises' increasingly urgent need for digital transformation put forward new requirements for cloud service providers. In the context of digital transformation, enterprises attach greater importance to artificial intelligence-empowered service capabilities and acceleration of business innovation, according to the report.
Canalys defines cloud infrastructure services as infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service, either on dedicated hosted private infrastructure or shared public infrastructure. (Edited by Su Dan with Xinhua Silk Road, sudan@xinhua.org)
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