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2024.07.17 IT/Web Technology

【Summary】Tencent Cloud Overview 【Key Points】

Hello everyone! I am Ohara from Beyond Technology Co., Ltd.

This time, we will introduce Tencent Cloud , one of the giants of China’s cloud computing platform.

(This article was written in November 2021)

Table of Contents

1 Overview and History of Tencent
2 Tencent Cloud Overview
3 Summary

Overview and History of Tencent

Tencent started with messaging applications such as WeChat and QQ , and then built a digital ecosystem that meets the daily needs of users with applications such as games, videos, news, music, payments, and cloud security. WeChat in particular has more than 1 billion daily active users.

Year	Overview
Nov 1998	Tencent was founded
Feb 1999	Tencent QQ was launched
Aug 2003	QQ Games was released
Jun 2004	Listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Dec 2009	Annual revenue exceeded 10 billion RMB (approx. 158.8 billion JPY)
Jan 2011	WeChat (Chinese version) was launched
Jun 2011	Announced its open platform strategy
Aug 2013	WeChat Pay went online
Jan 2014	Released WeChat Red Packet (a digital money transfer feature)
Jul 2017	Market capitalization exceeded 500 billion USD (approx. 56 trillion JPY)
Jan 2018	WeChat’s monthly active users surpassed 1 billion
Jul 2019	Announced entry into the Japanese cloud services market
Feb 2020	Established a 100 million USD fund (approx. 11 billion JPY) to support global pandemic response

Tencent Cloud Overview

Tencent Cloud is the platform behind a wide range of services provided by Tencent, including WeChat and digital content.

Tencent Cloud helps enterprises transform digitally by leveraging Tencent Cloud’s infrastructure technology, high DAU services, software, and proprietary technologies. In addition to Tencent Cloud’s core products – computing and storage, it also offers more than 300 services, as well as powerful infrastructure services in 27 regions and 70 availability zones.

In addition, Tencent Cloud has the following 3 characteristics.

● Strong technical foundation

・Continuous investment in open source collaboration to achieve technological innovation in cloud computing technology development.

● Huge volume of connections

・With more than 20 years of experience in serving billions of users, we establish strong connections with users from multiple perspectives.

●Open ecosystem

・A powerful digital ecosystem that is interconnected with partners.

Summary

The above is an overview of Tencent and Tencent Cloud.

Tencent Cloud allows the use of aPaaS, a development tool SDK that implements large-scale live broadcasting functions. Therefore, in addition to ordinary live broadcasting room functions, it can also install various small games and have reward functions. It can be used not only for infrastructure but also for system development scenarios.