TVB (Hong Kong): Auto Scaling and PolarDB to handle streaming traffic spikes
Use case typeCloud migrationUpdated Jun 16, 2026
Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a major TV broadcasting and on-demand video streaming provider in Hong Kong. As viewership grew, TVB needed better application scalability, performance stability, and cost control during peak traffic hours across its television and streaming platforms.
- Organization
- Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB)
- Industry
- Consumer & Food
- Location
- Hong Kong
- Published
- June 2026
Reported outcomes
Strategic outcomes
Speed & agilityImproved application performance and availabilityCost efficiencyReduced resource wastage and optimized IT costs
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB)
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Maturity
- Production
- Linked source
- Alibaba Cloud Customers
Deployed Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling to provision compute resources during fluctuating demand and remove surplus capacity off-peak
Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported
Primary read
Use case focus
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Growing viewership created peak-hour scalability, stability, and cost-control challenges for TVB's TV and OTT streaming services.
- Deployed Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling to provision compute resources during fluctuating demand and remove surplus capacity off-peak.
- Used Alibaba Cloud PolarDB to maintain performance during scale-out events while reducing data storage costs.
- Auto Scaling also distributed incoming traffic across multiple backend servers to improve availability.
Technologies
- Improved application performance and availability during sudden traffic surges.
- Reduced resource wastage and optimized IT costs.
- Delivered a world-class viewing experience for customers.
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium55/100Evidence strength
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Primary source available
- Technical implementation details available
Type: Customer StoryPublished: Jun 16, 2026Publisher: Alibaba CloudEvidence: PrimaryConfidence: High
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