How Huawei Cloud is Advancing Data Centres for Insurance

Insurance is a data-heavy business, with policy administration and claims processing depending on systems that must run continuously while handling growing volumes of information.

At an executive forum, Huawei Cloud Thailand and The Thai Life Assurance Association brought together more than 30 senior executives and technology leaders from leading insurance companies.

Their discussions focused on how insurers could rebuild core systems on cloud infrastructure and what that might mean for the data centre environments that sit beneath them.

Many insurers still rely on legacy platforms that limit flexibility and make scaling difficult. The forum challenged these operations for more modern data centre design, as distributed cloud regions and high availability shape how services are delivered.

Reworking the data centre layer

At the heart of the conversation was infrastructure. Huawei Cloud presented its platform as a foundation for running insurance workloads across multiple data centres, using regions and availability zones to spread risk and maintain service continuity. 

The way insurers think about their data centre footprint is changing. Not just for hyperscalers, but for all data centre professionals, workloads can be distributed across sites with orchestration tools managing how applications scale and recover, instead of only relying on a single facility.

Huawei also pointed to the role of cloud-native architecture, allowing services to move between servers or locations with minimal disruption in distributed environments. This could mean faster deployment of new products and more consistent service performance for insurers.

Huawei’s Digital Core Insurance Solution reflects this shift, offering a route away from legacy systems such as AS/400, a long-standing midrange computing platform, towards modern cloud-based stacks.

The company's aim is not only to update technology but to simplify operations and create a more adaptable environment for future services while also reducing maintenance overhead.

Data and resilience across sites

Databases sit at the core of insurance operations, and the forum gave particular attention to how they run in distributed data centres.

At the forum, Huawei highlighted GaussDB, its enterprise-grade database designed for critical workloads, which uses replication and clustering to keep data consistent and services available.

Replication ensures that copies of data are stored in different locations while clustering links multiple servers so they act as a single system.

Together, these techniques support resilience. If one node or site fails, the others continue processing without interruption. This is essential in meeting recovery objectives for insurers operating data centres.

Piyatida Itiravivongs, President of Huawei Cloud Thailand says: "Digital transformation has become a strategic priority for the insurance industry.

"Huawei Cloud is committed to supporting insurers in building a strong digital service by combining cloud infrastructure, advanced database technologies and industry-specific solutions to improve operational efficiency and deliver better customer experiences."

Experience from implementation

The forum also drew on experience from Sinosoft, a technology provider focused on insurance platforms.

Its collaboration with Huawei Cloud offers a view of how these architectures are applied in practice, from system migration to performance optimisation.

Huang Hu, Solution Architect of Sinosoft says: "Sinosoft has extensive experience in developing technology platforms for the insurance industry.

"Through our collaboration with Huawei Cloud, we have successfully modernised insurance systems by adopting cloud-based architectures, helping organisations enhance the performance and stability of their core insurance platforms while supporting long-term business growth.

"The success of these projects demonstrates the strong synergy between Sinosoft's insurance technology expertise and Huawei Cloud's advanced cloud infrastructure.

"We hope the experience and case studies shared at this event will provide valuable insights for insurance companies in Thailand as they accelerate their journey toward digital insurance."

Across the discussions, a clear picture formed for modern insurance platforms relying on data centre environments.

The forum explained how workloads should be flexible, distributed and designed for constant availability. The forum presented this not as a distant ambition but as an active process already underway within Thailand’s insurance sector.