Industry: Retail & E-commerce
Cloud Migration for a Retail Chain
- Azure
- Docker
- MySQL
- CDN
- Load Balancing
Overview
A growing retail chain was running its online store and inventory system on aging on-premise servers that buckled during every seasonal sale.
The Challenge
Peak-season traffic crashed the site for hours, costing sales and trust. Costs were unpredictable, backups were manual, and scaling meant buying hardware weeks in advance.
The Solution
We designed a cloud architecture on Azure, containerized the applications, and migrated in controlled stages with zero customer-facing downtime. Auto-scaling, a CDN, and automated backups were built in from day one.
The Results
The store now absorbs 5x its previous peak traffic without a hiccup, infrastructure costs fell by roughly 30%, and recovery time in a failure scenario went from eight hours to under fifteen minutes.
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