This report is jointly released by Sullivan and Toubao Research Institute, focusing on the analysis of the 2024 Chinese enterprises’ overseas cloud service market, covering aspects such as overseas expansion trends, cloud service demands, and the competitive landscape of cloud vendors.
1. New Trends in Chinese Enterprises Going Global
- Scale Growth: In the first half of 2024, more than 2,000 Chinese listed companies have expanded into overseas markets. The overseas expansion rate of specialized and innovative SMEs in 2024 exceeds 65%. In 2023, China’s outward direct investment flow reached USD 177.29 billion, with a stock of USD 2.96 trillion.
- Changes in Target Markets: No longer limited to North America and Europe, more companies are entering emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, Latin America, North Africa, South Africa, and countries in the Middle East Gulf region.
- Changes in Industrial Structure and Business Models: Expanding from overseas internet markets to high-end industries, with diversified business models including the establishment of overseas operation centers and overseas mergers and acquisitions.
2. Cloud Service Demands of Chinese Enterprises Going Global
- Technical Demands: Emphasis on the synergy of reliability and agility, high demand for high-availability architecture, serverless architecture, multi-cloud architecture, etc., with attention to data security compliance and intelligent automation technologies. In the future, there will be more focus on flexibility and stability.
- Operational Demands: Value is placed on the local team support, service experience, and global partners of cloud service providers. In the future, attention will be paid to the global deployment fit and pricing strategies of cloud vendors.
3. Competitive Landscape of Cloud Vendors
- General Established Cloud Service Providers: Globally deployed, with large investments in infrastructure construction and mature product portfolios, but with complex products and billing models.
- Leading Local Chinese Cloud Service Providers: Cater to local users, provide overseas expansion experience, have advantages in cost-effectiveness and response speed, and are more open in ecosystem cooperation.
- Cloud Service Providers with Strong Vertical Service Capabilities: Provide vertical services such as enterprise-level applications, often cooperating with other cloud providers to make up for gaps in infrastructure, etc.
4. Cloud Service Products and Development Trends
- Product Portfolio Models: Divided into cloud migration acceleration portfolios, hybrid cloud deployment portfolios, industry solution portfolios, and innovative architecture application portfolios to meet the needs of different enterprises.
- Product Capability Upgrades: Integrating new technologies such as big data and cloud-native to enhance added value, playing a role in different fields to meet enterprise needs.
- Compliance Strategy Optimization: Improving adaptability to the global compliance environment through the construction of compliance management frameworks, etc.
- Cloud Service Ecosystem Construction: The partnership with partners continues to evolve, strengthening global localized support by expanding partners and other means.
- “Intelligent-Intensive” Cloud Services: Integrating large model technologies to provide native AI capabilities on the cloud, achieving two-way development driven by AI.
Short answer for decision makers
This TikTok business signal should be used as a planning prompt, not a standalone trend. The practical question is whether your brand has the market readiness, creator supply, Shop conversion path, paid-media structure, and reporting cadence to act on it now.
Key facts
- Market signal: TikTok Market Research Analysis Report
- Published: March 7, 2025
- Source transparency: the original source linked in this article
Tuke recommendation
Choose one market, one product group, one creator cohort, and one KPI for the next operating cycle. Then align creative testing, TikTok Shop optimization, live commerce readiness, and weekly reporting around that single decision.
What should brands do with this TikTok signal?
Brands should translate the signal into a focused operating test across creative, creators, TikTok Shop readiness, paid media, and reporting before increasing budget.
How does Tuke Marketing evaluate this kind of news?
Tuke Marketing reviews platform news through market timing, category demand, creator supply, commerce readiness, and measurable growth actions.
When should a team contact Tuke about this topic?
A team should contact Tuke when it needs to turn a TikTok market signal into a practical launch, creator, advertising, live commerce, or reporting plan.
Source transparency: Tuke cites the original source linked in this article and adds its own operating analysis for brands evaluating TikTok growth decisions.