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• Tencent Cloud adds Asian availability zones in new data centre splash

  ​Tencent Cloud has launched three new data centre presences in Asia, opening its second availability zones in Bangkok and Tokyo, as well as its third in Hong Kong.

• Majority of top Asia Pacific tech companies thrived amid COVID-19

  The majority of the top 20 Asia Pacific tech companies bested the conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic, with revenue up by over 5 per cent on average.

• In cloud clash with Alibaba, underdog Tencent adopts more aggressive tactics

  ​For Chinese cloud services companies, the coronavirus outbreak has become a rainmaker, bringing in new business far and wide.

• Q1 belongs to AWS and Microsoft as cloud provides ‘safe haven’ during Covid-19

  The economic impact of Covid-19 has so far failed to slow the cloud progress of AWS and Microsoft within the enterprise market.

• Big 4 dominate expanding public cloud market

  AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud accounted for 72 per cent of public cloud services revenue during the third quarter of 2019.

• National University of Singapore powers start-up growth through Tencent Cloud

  Tencent has signed an agreement with the National University of Singapore to set up a program designed to incubate start-ups through cloud services.

• AWS and Microsoft claim half of cloud services spending

  Spending on cloud infrastructure services continues to increase with AWS and Microsoft accounting for half of all customer investments.

• Chinese vendors account for 40% of Asian public cloud market

  Chinese cloud providers account for 40 per cent share of the public cloud market in Asia Pacific, spearheaded by Alibaba, Tencent and Sinnet.

• Competition makes cloud gains but AWS reigns supreme

  Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and Tencent reported significant cloud infrastructure gains during the first quarter of 2019, but AWS remains a clear market leader.

• True IDC and Tencent claim Thailand’s first in-country AI-enabled cloud platform

  A collaboration between Thailand’s True Internet Data Centre (True IDC) and Tencent (Thailand) has produced the country’s "first" in-country interactive and artificial intelligence (AI) enabled cloud platform.

• Coin mining malware can uninstall Tencent, Alibaba cloud security

  A coin mining malware developed by threat actor Rocke has been found to have the ability to uninstall five different cloud security products.

• Tencent reveals restructuring plans as challenges rise

  Tencent has announced its first restructuring in six years, done at a time it faces increased challenges from tighter government regulations.

• Dominant AWS reminds cloud market who’s boss

  Amazon Web Services continues to dominate the public cloud services market, operating as a “clear” worldwide leader across the world.

• Top cloud vendors spend big as race for scale heats up

  ​Global hyper-scale cloud vendors collectively forked out at least US$27 billion in capital expenditure over the three months ending March.