AWS Architecture for Ecommerce

Fault-tolerant AWS environments for stores that outgrew shared hosting: designed, built as code, migrated with rollback in hand, and managed after launch.

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What we build

Auto-scaling, load-balanced, fault-tolerant infrastructure with disaster recovery built in - the environment a revenue-critical store should be running on. Everything is written as Terraform, so your infrastructure is versioned, reviewable, and rebuildable, not a pile of console clicks nobody remembers. Running Magento? Here's why we run Magento stores on AWS.

MIGRATIONS	Shared or managed hosting to AWS - staged, tested, rollback ready
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE	Terraform - versioned, reviewed, reproducible
COMPUTE & DATA	EC2/ECS, RDS, autoscaling groups, load balancing
DEPLOYS	CI/CD pipelines, blue-green deploys, instant rollback
EDGE	Cloudflare CDN, WAF, and caching in front of everything
AFTER LAUNCH	Retained management - cost, security, scaling, 60-second monitoring

Our process

Assess

Current hosting, traffic patterns, and what actually breaks under load. If AWS isn't the right answer, we say so here.

Design

Architecture sized to your traffic, written in Terraform, reviewed with your team before anything is provisioned.

Migrate

Staged cutover with the old environment intact - DNS flips when the new one has proven itself, and flips back in minutes if it hasn't.

Run

Cost, security, scaling, and monitoring after launch. AWS bills reward attention; unattended environments get expensive.

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A lift-and-shift that copies your shared-hosting setup onto EC2 buys AWS pricing with shared-hosting performance. The value is in the architecture - autoscaling, caching, and edge design - not the logo change.

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AWS Architecture for Ecommerce FAQ.

Should we be on AWS or managed hosting?+

Managed hosting is right for plenty of stores, and we manage stores on it every day. AWS earns its complexity when you need autoscaling, custom architecture, or you've outgrown what a managed plan will sell you. The assessment answers this with numbers, not ideology.

How much downtime does a migration take?+

The store stays up while the AWS environment is built and tested alongside it. Cutover is a DNS change with the old environment held as rollback - minutes of switchover, not days of outage.

What does AWS cost compared to what we pay now?+

It depends on the architecture, which is why cost modeling is part of the design step. Managed well, you pay for what you use; managed badly, AWS is famously expensive - that's what retained management is for.

Do you manage it after launch?+

Yes - cost, security patching, scaling, and 60-second monitoring with SLA-backed response. Or we hand you the Terraform and documentation and your team runs it.

Is Cloudflare part of the build?+

Usually - CDN, WAF, and edge caching in front of the load balancer is standard in our designs. If you already have Cloudflare, we tune what's there.

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Performance & Hosting Management

Speed work with numbers attached - LCP under 2.5 seconds, TTFB under 200ms - and hosting managed wherever your store already runs. Nexcess, AWS, Google Cloud, dedicated: we tune it, monitor it, and answer for it.

Magento Staging & Deployment

Deploying changes directly to production is risky. A proper staging environment and deployment pipeline protects your store and enables confident releases - with zero-downtime deployment and one-command rollback.

AWS Architecture for Ecommerce? Your store deserves a developer on speed dial.