Business

Cheetah Mobile is a well-known company that has risen in the era of the mobile Internet. It is committed to “in the world of coexistence of man and machine, using technology to make life better”, and is the frontier of Chinese mobile Internet companies going abroad.

After being officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2014, Cheetah Mobile has strategically upgraded from mobile Internet to the AI-driven industrial Internet while maintaining its original business advantages. Today, Cheetah Mobile has formed a tool application and Internet entertainment. (Game + live streaming), AI industry and investment as the core “four-wheel drive” growth model. With its unique promotion strategy and continuous improvement of product quality, Cheetah Mobile is now the world’s leading AI industry Internet company.

face the challenge

The business distribution of Cheetah Mobile is divided into two aspects: overseas business and domestic business. Among the global mobile users of Cheetah Mobile, overseas users account for 67%.

Cheetah Mobile has two different IT teams responsible for operation and maintenance, responsible for domestic and overseas operations. The domestic business maintains the traditional method of renting and building data center computer rooms, but this method is not suitable for overseas business. In the early days, Cheetah Mobile had considered purchasing server construction rooms by itself overseas. After evaluation, it was found that this could not meet the needs of business growth. When the product business grows rapidly, the supporting ability of the IT system cannot keep up with it is the biggest problem. The traditional IT planning method requires a long cycle and it is easy to restrict business development. No one can accurately predict the popularity of a product. Once the product is popular, traditional IT operation and maintenance methods will definitely slow down the expansion of the business.

solution

Agilewing provides a variety of cloud platform services for Cheetah Mobile. The front end uses Route53 for DNS resolution, and CloudFront makes full use of cloud vendors’s service areas around the world. Place the content that users need to access nearby, perfectly achieve low-latency high-speed data transmission, greatly improve website performance and reduce speed. It also uses high-level functions such as ECS and EKS to implement a microservices and containerized architecture. DevOps integrates O & M development, simplifies O & M, and ensures consistent O & M configuration.

cloud vendors’s excellent scalability can meet the needs of Cheetah Mobile during peak hours, ensure performance during peak access times, and automatically reduce to reduce operation and maintenance costs during non-peak periods.

Results achieved

Cheetah Mobile has been using the cloud vendors cloud platform since November 2013. cloud vendors provides on-demand services as the business changes. This is particularly suitable for businesses that have high scalability requirements for Cheetah Mobile, and there will be no waste. Nor will there be insufficient situations.

At present, all overseas operations of Cheetah Mobile are placed on the platform’s fast iteration and fast delivery cloud vendors cloud platform. By automatically utilizing reserved instances and bidding instances, the resource utilization rate for Cheetah Mobile has been increased by 30%, and the cost has been reduced by 40%.