Elevating e-commerce with AWS cloud

Discover how T-Systems collaborated with C&C Casa e Construção, Brazil to move their e-commerce platform to the AWS cloud.
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• The on-premises infrastructure struggled to handle traffic spikes during peak shopping seasons
• Each seasonal peak identified the need to add new machines, which led to an environment structured around 19 servers to ensure that C&C customers had a good shopping experience
• More speed, availability, assertiveness and scalability, given the prospect of growth

• Migrating C&C’s e-commerce to the AWS cloud
• Redefining the architecture used for the e-commerce operation, which helped in consolidating 19 physical servers into just seven cloud servers
• Utilizing a combination of AWS services, including EC2, ELB, RDS, FSx and S3, to build a scalable and reliable infrastructure

• The e-commerce operation now has a scalable and fast architecture, ready to meet customer demands without waiting or slowing down
• Simplification of managing the environment
• C&C successfully addressed its scalability, performance, and security challenges

C&C Casa e Construção is one of the largest retailers in the home center segment for flooring and wall coverings in Brazil and one of the pioneers in the sector to sell its products online, which has been the case since 2001. With more than 45,000 items available, the chain now has 27 stores and two distribution centers and its e-commerce operation accounts for around R$10 million a month in sales, making it one of the company’s top five stores.

C&C Casa e Construção