Cloud Ecommerce Solution

Modular, Cloud-Native Commerce Solutions Are No Longer a Privilege, Forrester Says

Let’s take a closer look at this idea of Forrester. Until recently, only the most digitally mature companies adopted modular cloud-based ecommerce solutions. Others traditionally opted for monolith platforms because they are easier to deploy. But even if sold under a SaaS model and hosted in the cloud, platforms were always limited in scalability and behaved unstably during demand spikes.

Recent years brought a clear understanding that to survive and thrive, commerce businesses need to be truly agile and evolve faster amidst changes in customer behavior or supply chains. Not only enterprise-grade companies but also mid-market players started migrating to cloud composable ecommerce solutions. And forecasts show the same trend – ReportLinker predicts that cloud adoption in the whole retail sector will continue to grow by nearly 20% yearly.

Cloud Ecommerce: the Essence

Cloud ecommerce is an ecommerce solution built entirely from cloud technologies in order to gain solution scalability and fast time-to-market for new features and updates.

Cloud architecture of an ecommerce solution is a collection of containerized microservices hosted in the cloud environment and connected to cloud data storage and analytics tools. The solution is commonly integrated with ecommerce-specific cloud services such as search or personalization engines.

Cloud Architecture for an Ecommerce Solution

In our sample architecture diagram, we emphasize key possibilities provided by the cloud techs for ecommerce businesses:

• Microservices-based structure to build and evolve each function separately, without affecting the whole application. This enables much-needed business agility.
• Multi-availability zones to ensure low-latency connectivity and fast app performance for customers in different geographical locations. This is important for international ecommerce businesses.
• Auto scaling service to automatically adjust cloud computing capacity to traffic fluctuations. This allows companies to minimize the cost of cloud resources during slow sales and ensure unfailing app availability and performance during sales peaks.
• Cloud-native personalization and multichannel communication tools to enable data-driven inbound (in ecommerce apps) and outbound (via marketing channels) personalization.
• Cloud-native data analytics to use massive customer and business data for decision-making.

* An official AWS Select Tier Services Partner, ScienceSoft demonstrates a cloud architecture built from AWS** tools and services to make our example more down-to-earth. Still, our expertise is not exclusively AWS-centered, we also work with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and DigitalOcean.

**AWS, Amazon Web Services and other AWS Marks are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries.

Cloud Services and Tools Used to Architect Ecommerce Solutions

We’ve outlined the most comprehensive technology stack for the two most-used cloud providers – AWS and Microsoft Azure.

AWS

Microsoft Azure

ScienceSoft: Combined Expertise in Cloud Computing and Ecommerce

• We have experience in cloud development and migration since 2012.
• Our background in ecommerce services is even more impressive – 22 years.
• We work with market-leading cloud providers: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and DigitalOcean.
• We have solution architects in the team who focus on microservices and cloud-native architectures.