Digital Auto Auction Platform:
Digital Auto Auction Platform:
Migrating Infrastructure, Modernizing Architecture, and Automating Deployment
Industry: Retail & CPG
Delivery Center: Costa Rica
Industry Context
In today's digital marketplace, online auto auction platforms play a crucial role in connecting buyers and sellers. enabling a streamlined and efficient remote transaction process. To remain competitive, these platforms must leverage robust infrastructure and ensure high availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Optimizing performance is essential for handling peak loads, minimizing downtime, and supporting growth. As online auto auctions gain prominence, maintaining a seamless and reliable user experience is key to market leadership and operational excellence. Increasingly, businesses are turning to cloud platforms to modernize their operations and disrupt traditional industry models.
Client Challenge
A leading online-only auto auction platform sought to revolutionize the industry by applying its brick-and-mortar auction expertise to connect buyers and sellers digitally. However, the company faced significant infrastructure challenges. Relying on an overprovisioned on-premises server proved financially draining, resulting in frequent downtime--almost every 15 days. With time-sensitive auctions, high availability and smooth performance were essential. However, the single-server setup became the single point of failure, complicating issue diagnosis and resolution. Additionally, on-premises resource provisioning and application hosting made it difficult to scale operations and support business growth.
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