Tencent Cloud Virtual Machine

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Elastic compute service offering scalable, secure virtual machines across 30+ global regions with a range of instance families, spot instances, dedicated hosts, and bare-metal options, plus per-second billing on eligible SKUs

Jurisdictional exposure

Provider HQ
CNShenzhen, China

Subject to PIPL, DSL, CSL

Region locations
APACCNEUUSOther21 regions across 5 jurisdictions
Sovereign option
Yes — 9 sovereign-flagged regions available

Attributes

SLA Uptime
99.975%
GPU Support
Yes

Sub-services (4)

Standard Instances

General-purpose VM shapes balanced for most workloads

Spot Instances

Deeply discounted interruptible capacity for fault-tolerant workloads

Bare Metal

Dedicated physical hosts exposed with hypervisor-free access

GPU Instances

NVIDIA T4, A10, A100, H800 instances for ML and rendering workloads

Compliance & Certifications

This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.

Where this runs

21 regions
12 countries
9sovereign
Sovereign regions (9)
  • BeijingTencent Cloud China
  • ShanghaiTencent Cloud China
  • GuangzhouTencent Cloud China
  • ChengduTencent Cloud China
  • ChongqingTencent Cloud China
  • NanjingTencent Cloud China
  • Shenzhen Finance · ShenzhenTencent Finance Cloud
  • Shanghai Finance · ShanghaiTencent Finance Cloud
  • Beijing Finance · BeijingTencent Finance Cloud
Commercial regions (12)

Europe (1)

  • Frankfurt

North America (3)

  • Toronto
  • Virginia
  • Silicon Valley

South America (1)

  • São Paulo

Asia (7)

  • Hong Kong
  • Mumbai
  • Jakarta
  • Tokyo
  • Singapore
  • Seoul
  • Bangkok

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Pricing

Pricing model:pay-as-you-go