Hi everyone, welcome to the 10th chapter in our Tencent Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Course; Gaming Solutions. At the end of this chapter, you'll be able to understand Tencent Cloud's gaming ecosystem and capabilities, different game types and their characteristics, the needs of different game types and how to design their architectures, and Tencent Cloud's Gaming Solutions. In this chapter, we'll cover four sections, Tencent Cloud's Gaming Ecosystem and Capabilities, Overview of the Gaming Industry's Characteristics, Cloud Architecture Solution Designed for the Gaming Industry, and Tencent Cloud Case Studies for the Gaming Industry. This video will cover the first section, Tencent Cloud's Gaming Ecosystem and Capabilities. Subsequent videos will cover the remaining three sections. Let's get started with Section 1, Tencent Cloud's Gaming Ecosystem and Capabilities. In this video, we'll cover the constant leading position of Tencent Cloud in the gaming Cloud service market and Tencent Cloud's Gaming Ecosystem. Tencent Cloud constantly possesses a leading position in the gaming service market, excluding Tencent games, over 75 percent of the top games on various game lists in mainland China, use Tencent Cloud. Tencent Cloud has won multiple awards for cloud gaming, including Best Game Service Provider at The Fifth Annual Golden Tea Awards, Best Mobile Game Service Provider at The Sixth Game Developers Conference, and Best Gaming Ecosystem Award at The Seventh Global Mobile Gaming Confederation. Tencent Cloud serves a high number of games in more than 53 countries and regions. Tencent Cloud is active in the global gaming market operating 70 availability zones in 27 geographical regions around the world. Tencent Cloud's Global Application Acceleration Platform, GAAP, enables global interconnection. Tencent Cloud's five central nodes in Silicon Valley, Frankfurt, Singapore, and Hong Kong cover Europe, America, Southeast Asia, Australia, South Asia, and other regions with a latency below 180 milliseconds. Tencent Cloud's gaming solutions are the first choice for benchmark customers in the industry. Some of the popular mobile games that use Tencent Cloud include PUBG mobile, Fate/Grand Order, Mini World, Clash Royale, Saint Seiya, and BarbarQ. Tencent Cloud gaming solutions can be used across multiple gaming genres, such as FPSS, RPGs, MOBAs, and MMOs. The gaming ecosystem layout of Tencent Cloud is shown in the following diagram. The game engines, game development components, gaming security, gaming acceleration, and game operations sit on the top of the basic Tencent Cloud services with additional internal and external resources and capabilities. The gaming ecosystem layout of Tencent Cloud emphasizes stability, security, and profitability.
