Indonesian telecommunications firm XLSMART has accomplished a public cloud migration to Tencent Cloud, transferring core techniques and enterprise belongings onto the platform.
The venture took 4 and a half months. XLSMART mentioned the migration lined greater than 60 core purposes, 1,200 microservices, 1,100 APIs, 900 enterprise interfaces, and greater than 15TB of core belongings.
The businesses mentioned the migration was accomplished with out downtime whereas XLSMART continued serving greater than 69 million customers.
DataReportal, citing GSMA Intelligence, mentioned Indonesia had 356 million mobile cellular connections at first of 2025. The determine can exceed the overall inhabitants as a result of people might use a couple of cellular connection.
Submit-merger cloud consolidation
The migration adopted the creation of XLSMART by the April 2025 merger of XL Axiata and Smartfren. Earlier than the venture, its techniques have been unfold throughout fragmented multi-cloud platforms.
The merger introduced collectively separate telecom IT environments, together with purposes, vendor-linked techniques, APIs, and enterprise interfaces underneath XLSMART.
The combination work concerned techniques from greater than 10 third-party distributors. Based on the businesses, greater than 70% of the goal purposes needed to be redesigned or rebuilt, slightly than moved by a typical lift-and-shift migration.
The businesses additionally carried out an architectural audit earlier than the migration. The method was used to determine which workloads ought to be retained, modified, or optimised earlier than being moved to Tencent Cloud.
The migration concerned 1,200 microservices and 1,100 APIs throughout XLSMART’s operations.
AI utilized in migration work
XLSMART mentioned Tencent’s AI brokers have been used throughout the migration course of to shorten handbook work. Based on the corporate, duties that may often take months have been accomplished inside weeks or days.
Tencent Cloud mentioned the AI-assisted course of lined service discovery, structure design, setting deployment, migration cutover, and monitoring. The cloud supplier used instruments together with CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy, and TokenHub as a part of the migration course of.
Tencent Cloud mentioned the AI-assisted work automated components of cross-account setting scanning, legacy useful resource mapping, low-level design documentation, and structure diagram era. The corporate mentioned this lowered handbook spreadsheet-based monitoring.
The venture additionally included the deployment of greater than 20 Tencent Cloud merchandise, together with databases, containers, safety providers, and clever advisors. Tencent Cloud additionally launched Database Claw to help database operations by agent-based automation.
Yessie D. Yosetya, director and chief info and know-how officer of XLSMART, mentioned the venture was supposed to strengthen the corporate’s digital basis and operational resilience.
Poshu Yeung, senior vice-president of Tencent Cloud and head of Tencent Cloud Worldwide, mentioned the AI migration capabilities developed through the XLSMART venture have been consolidated right into a reusable platform for enterprise clients.
Tencent Cloud operates in additional than 80 markets and areas. In Indonesia, the corporate has a number of availability zones in Jakarta.
Tencent can also be increasing its cloud infrastructure in Indonesia. Knowledge Middle Dynamics reported that Tencent deliberate to take a position US$500 million by 2030 to help cloud and AI providers within the nation, and that the corporate already had two knowledge centres in Jakarta.
GoTo Group mentioned in November 2024 that Tencent Cloud was establishing a 3rd Web Knowledge Centre in Indonesia as a part of a dedication value round US$500 million in infrastructure, sources, and funding by 2030.
Reuters reported in June final yr {that a} DayOne-INA knowledge centre campus in Batam would supply about 72MW of capability, or roughly 5% of Indonesia’s projected 1.41GW knowledge centre capability by 2029.
Tencent Cloud’s clients in Indonesia embrace GoTo Group, the ride-hailing and supply firm, which has additionally carried out a multi-year cloud migration venture with the supplier.
XLSMART is collectively owned by Indonesia’s Sinarmas Group and Malaysia’s Axiata Group.
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