Tencent Cloud is launching the Elastic Enterprise Edition as part of its platform, bringing Elastic’s enterprise-grade search and AI capabilities to Tencent Cloud.

As a Platinum-level Elastic partner, Tencent Cloud now runs 20,000 Elasticsearch clusters with 100,000 nodes to support large-scale events such as the CMG Spring Festival Gala and the Paris Olympic Games.

Elasticsearch is a widely used open-source search engine, with Elastic’s AI Platform powering search, observability, and security for thousands of companies, including more than half of the Fortune 500, used for product search, in-app search, and log analysis.

Industry executives say context and search are foundational for AI applications, with accurate data retrieval boosting AI responses, decisions, and task execution, and search quality impacting model inference and system performance in 2026.

Elastic notes that in 2026, long-horizon tasks for LLMs hinge on test-time compute, recommending prioritizing extra inference compute if search quality is lacking before changing data or models.

AI-powered enterprise search is a critical bridge that retrieves real-time internal data to ground large language models and helps agents locate information and tools during tasks.

Elastic emphasizes that as LLM capabilities grow, context becomes essential for reliable data retrieval and effective enterprise AI applications.

Real-world deployments include Tencent ima using ES to optimize knowledge-base retrieval with 71% memory reduction and 58% faster retrieval, while NIO uses ES for security data intelligence processing hundreds of billions of records quarterly to rapidly reconstruct attack chains.

Tencent Cloud has added internal ES improvements, delivering up to 5x performance in AI search scenarios, about 60% lower hybrid search latency, and more than 50% reduction in memory usage.

The service enables AI search without rearchitecting data, supports integration with Tencent’s Hunyuan LLMs and TCRay inference platform, and offers migration/upgrade options for open-source or self-managed clusters.

Tencent Cloud’s collaboration with Elastic aligns with its broader mission to drive digital transformation across industries through cloud, AI, IoT, cybersecurity, and big data, while expanding Elastic’s enterprise-grade AI ecosystem.