Asia Tech Wire (Aug 12) -- The Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games officially closed on Sunday, with an estimated global viewing audience of more than 4 billion people.

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud services arm of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, was the exclusive cloud service provider for the Olympics, successfully supporting the largest television and online broadcast in human history.

According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Paris Olympics is the first Olympics where cloud computing has replaced satellite as the primary broadcast method, and is another major step forward since the 1964 Olympics, when it used satellite technology to deliver television signals.

This year, more than two-thirds of the Olympic TV and webcast signals were distributed globally based on Alibaba Cloud, which was the foundation for the Paris Olympics to go global.