Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud#

Tencent Cloud is the second-largest public cloud in China and a significant presence across Asia-Pacific. Catalog mirrors AWS; the operator meets it on Chinese-origin workloads, gaming infrastructure (Tencent’s home market), and SEA / India regions where its network is competitive.

Account model#

  • Tencent Cloud Account, the unit of billing and primary identity scope.

  • CAM (Cloud Access Management), Tencent’s IAM. Users, groups, roles, policies.

  • International vs. China are administered separately; Chinese Mainland and International accounts (intl.cloud.tencent.com) do not share identity or billing.

Catalog at a glance#

Layer

Headline services

Compute

CVM (VMs), TKE (Kubernetes), SCF (Serverless Cloud Function), TEM (Tencent Cloud Elastic Microservices), EKS.

Storage

COS (object), CBS (block), CFS (file), Archive.

Database

TencentDB for MySQL / PostgreSQL / SQL Server, TDSQL (distributed SQL), MongoDB / Redis hosted, CynosDB.

Networking

VPC, CLB (load balancer), ECDN, Global Application Acceleration Platform (GAAP), Direct Connect.

Identity

CAM, KMS, SSM (Secrets Manager).

Observability

Cloud Monitor, CLS (Cloud Log Service), APM, Tencent Cloud Observability Platform (TCOP).

Messaging

TDMQ for RocketMQ / Pulsar / CKafka, MNS.

AI / ML

Hunyuan LLM Service, Tencent Cloud AI Lab products, ML Platform.

Gaming

GME (game multimedia engine), GSE (game session engine), MPS (media processing).

CLI and SDKs#

The tccli (TencentCloud CLI) plus per-language SDKs (tencentcloud-sdk-*).

$ tccli configure                          # interactive auth setup
$ tccli cvm DescribeInstances
$ tccli cos ls cos://my-bucket
$ tccli tke DescribeClusters

China-specific concerns#

  • ICP filing is required for public traffic from Mainland China regions.

  • WeChat / QQ integration is a competitive moat for consumer workloads in China.

  • International regions (Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, Frankfurt, Silicon Valley, Virginia, Mumbai, Bangkok, Sao Paulo) share the same console as Mainland but operate as separate capacity pools.

When to pick Tencent#

  • Workloads serving Chinese users, especially in gaming, social, or mobile.

  • Asia-Pacific (especially Southeast Asia) where Tencent’s network and CDN have strong PoP coverage.

  • Existing relationships with Tencent through WeChat Pay, WeChat Open Platform, or game-publishing partnerships.

When to pick something else#

  • Outside Asia-Pacific the support and ecosystem footprint is thinner.

  • Non-Chinese compliance regimes; Tencent’s accreditation surface is narrower than the big three.

Datacenter locations#

Code

Location

ap-beijing

Beijing, China (Mainland)

ap-shanghai

Shanghai, China (Mainland)

ap-nanjing

Nanjing, China (Mainland)

ap-guangzhou

Guangzhou, China (Mainland)

ap-chengdu

Chengdu, China (Mainland)

ap-chongqing

Chongqing, China (Mainland)

ap-zhongwei

Zhongwei, China (Mainland)

ap-hongkong

Hong Kong (China region)

ap-beijing-fsi

Beijing Finance, China (restricted)

ap-shanghai-fsi

Shanghai Finance, China (restricted)

ap-shenzhen-fsi

Shenzhen Finance, China (restricted)

ap-shanghai-adc

Shanghai Self-driving Cloud (specialized)

ap-singapore

Singapore (international)

ap-jakarta

Jakarta, Indonesia (international)

ap-bangkok

Bangkok, Thailand (international)

ap-seoul

Seoul, South Korea (international)

ap-tokyo

Tokyo, Japan (international)

na-siliconvalley

Silicon Valley, USA (international)

na-ashburn

Virginia, USA (international)

eu-frankfurt

Frankfurt, Germany (international)

sa-saopaulo

São Paulo, Brazil (international)

me-saudi-arabia

Saudi Arabia (international)

References#

Contents