PingCAP Chooses AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider to Power Global Expansion

LAS VEGAS-December 3, 2024-At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that PingCAP, developer of the TiDB Cloud database-as-a-service offering, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. Leveraging AWS's serverless and security, the company has successfully supported customers worldwide in the financial services, e-commerce, enterprise application, and gaming industries. By listing TiDB Cloud on AWS Marketplace, PingCAP has significantly expanded its global reach, now serving customers from over 20 countries and regions worldwide.

TiDB Cloud leverages Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and AWS Lambda, a serverless compute service, to power TiDB Cloud Serverless, a fully managed and auto-scaling cloud database. This innovative solution provides customers with a resilient, reliable, and globally scalable database, enabling them to effortlessly handle dynamic workloads. AWS serverless technologies have significantly enhanced TiDB Cloud's deployment capabilities, reducing the time it takes to launch TiDB Cloud Serverless in new regions. What once took over two weeks, now takes less than three days for full-service availability. Moreover, AWS serverless technologies have effectively optimized PingCAP's operational costs. With AWS Lambda, PingCAP's developers can focus solely on application development without concerns about underlying infrastructure operations and maintenance, leading to improved efficiency and reduced expenses.

AWS plays a crucial role in ensuring data security and compliance for PingCAP's global expansion. By leveraging AWS's global infrastructure, PingCAP has established strategically located data center nodes to meet its customers' stringent data residency compliance requirements. Backed by AWS's robust security standards and compliance certifications and frameworks, PingCAP adheres to various regional and industry-specific regulations, enabling TiDB Cloud customers to navigate the complex landscape of global data regulations with confidence. TiDB Cloud uses a suite of AWS security capabilities, integrating AWS WAF, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon GuardDuty to establish comprehensive threat detection and defense capabilities. These advanced security measures protect TiDB Cloud from common network vulnerabilities and sophisticated bot attacks, ensuring business security and continuity.

The company joined the AWS Partner Network and listed TiDB Cloud on AWS Marketplace to help reach a broader international customer base. This move not only accelerated PingCAP's global business expansion, but it also delivered an impressive conversion rate from trial users to paid customers. In collaboration with AWS, PingCAP now scales thousands of enterprises worldwide across diverse industries, including financial services, e-commerce, enterprise applications, and gaming.

Catalyst is a SaaS customer data platform that predicts the probability of customer churn. Catalyst adopted TiDB Cloud as a data hub for real-time data integration and serving. By doing so, Catalyst simplified its data architecture and improved overall query performance by 60x while decreasing storage, maintenance, and operational costs.

DMM.com, an eCommerce and internet company, offers online shopping and streaming video on-demand services to over 45 million customers across Japan. DMM.com adopted TiDB Cloud to deliver seamless horizontal scalability for its 60 online services and ensure zero downtime for its business. By using TiDB Cloud, DMM.com has achieved stable operations, reduced latency, and improved scalability at 4,500 queries per second (QPS). The company plans to reach 15,000 QPS to significantly lower its operational overheads while accommodating growing traffic demands.

"AWS has deep industry experience and leading technological advantages in serving enterprises that operate on a global scale," said Max Liu, Co-Founder and CEO, PingCAP. "As a customer and partner of AWS, PingCAP not only benefits from powerful technical support, but also gains more business opportunities. By leveraging AWS's global infrastructure and strong security practices, PingCAP has successfully built a secure, compliant, stable, and reliable native distributed database. This powerful synergy has been instrumental in the seamless execution of our global expansion strategy."

"PingCAP's innovative database solutions running on AWS enable enterprises to unlock the value of their data at any scale," said Carol Potts, General Manager, ISV at AWS. "We are committed to working with PingCAP to expand their global reach, helping companies across regions and industries architect for efficiency and resilience. We look forward to our continued collaboration as PingCAP leverages the proven security, compliance, and scalability of AWS to deliver database technologies to more customers globally."

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