What is cloud e-commerce and how does it work?

E-commerce is a type of business that deals with the sale of goods and services over the Internet.

This area is very diverse: in addition to online sales itself, it includes the broad categories of Internet banking, which deals with online transactions, and Internet marketing, which includes advertising and actions aimed at increasing conversion.

What is Cloud eCommerce?

Cloud e-commerce is an e-commerce solution that uses cloud technologies for improved scalability and rapid feature deployment. It uses a cloud-based architecture consisting of container microservices, connected to cloud data storage and analysis tools. Integration with e-commerce-specific cloud services, such as search engines and personalization engines, is common.

The benefits of the adoption of cloud technology in e-commerce includes isolated development of microservices, fault-tolerant scalability, high availability (99.99%), consistent application performance regardless of traffic and cost efficiency through usage-based pricing. The architecture emphasizes microservices for flexible development, multi-availability zones for optimal connectivity, auto-scaling to adjust computing capacity, and cloud-native tools for personal communication and data analysis.

Companies that have successfully implemented cloud e-commerce solutions vary widely:

• Amazon is one of the most prominent examples of cloud e-commerce. The company pioneered cloud computing with its Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Amazon...