Industry Findings: Cloud storage adoption in Hong Kong remains shaped by its role as a regional financial and digital services hub, with sustained growth in enterprise data volumes and cross-border data flows. Organizations rely heavily on object and file storage to support analytics platforms, digital services, and long-term retention, while block storage underpins enterprise applications and transactional workloads. Hybrid deployment remains prevalent as enterprises balance public cloud efficiency with data governance, latency control, and operational resilience. A structural development occurred during Jun-2024, when regulatory oversight reinforced expectations around data accountability, retention discipline, and service continuity. That reinforcement prompted enterprises to reassess storage placement and expand resilient backup and archival capacity. Through 2025, storage consumption has continued to rise steadily as retained data from financial services, logistics, and digital platforms accumulates.
Industry Player Insights: With many companies present in the space, some are global and regional cloud providers. During Sep-2024, Alibaba Cloud expanded object storage capabilities in Hong Kong to support analytics and digital platform workloads. In May-2025, the provider enhanced lifecycle and tiering controls to improve retention efficiency. In parallel, Alibaba Cloud continues to anchor cloud storage adoption in Hong Kong through scalable object and block storage services aligned with regional compliance and high-availability requirements.