Leading online retailer moved to AWS for
greater stability, flexibility, and cost savings, and to drive
innovation at a faster clip
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that online retailer zulily is moving its
infrastructure to AWS to further enhance the online shopping
experience for its more than 6.1 million active customers. zulily
moved business critical workloads to AWS, including its store,
mobile application, and supply chain, and the online retailer has
since seen a 30-40 percent performance improvement per request made
across its website and mobile application. In addition, many of
zulily’s core production databases have been upgraded to Amazon
Aurora, resulting in higher fault tolerance and better performance
for zulily customers.
zulily is using the breadth and depth of AWS services, including
database, serverless, and analytics, to continually enhance its
services in the cloud. AWS enables every part of the
business—marketing, merchandising, vendor operations, security,
CI/CD automation, and supply chain—to make real-time decisions and
continuous improvements. By moving from standalone image generation
servers running custom code and several terabytes of local storage
to a single Lambda function backed by Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3) and fronted by Amazon CloudFront, zulily created a
truly scalable architecture on top of AWS that saves the company
thousands of dollars a month on a critical system, and delivered
the performance needed to provide shoppers with a reliable and
delightful experience. zulily developed a DevOps practice on AWS,
enabling the team to push code multiple times a day across a
variety of applications and services, testing and verifying system
functionalities every five minutes and cutting down the
code-to-production push time by over 30 percent.
“zulily launches over 100 events a day, featuring 9,000 styles
for 72 hours—while holding minimal inventory—and serving a
personalized experience for every customer, which requires a cloud
provider that can meet our rigorous demands. We chose AWS for the
flexibility, stability, cost savings, and unmatched set of cloud
services that support our unique business model,” said Luke Friang,
Chief Information Officer at zulily. “With AWS’s highly scalable
and flexible infrastructure, zulily is able to store and analyze
large volumes of data and deliver enhanced experience to customers
without taking away from key business operations. Our strategic
relationship with AWS gives our team the tools they need to
maintain our culture of constant and nimble innovation.”
“Leading retailers like zulily want to use the technology
infrastructure platform that gives them the most functionality, the
greatest agility, and the best security and performance to underpin
their customers’ online and mobile shopping experiences,” said Mike
Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. “AWS
is the clear leader in these areas and with zulily launching over
100 events a day, they can now rely on the most comprehensive set
of cloud services to iterate, test, and deploy new services at an
accelerated pace to create even better customer experiences. We are
excited to expand our strategic relationship with them, working
closely to enable innovation at scale.”
About Amazon Web Services
For over 12 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over
125 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases,
networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence
(AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual
and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application
development, deployment, and management from 55 Availability Zones
(AZs) within 18 geographic regions and one Local Region around the
world, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France,
Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the UK. AWS
services are trusted by millions of active customers around the
world—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises,
and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure, make
them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
https://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit
www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.
About zulily
zulily, LLC, (http://www.zulily.com) is a retailer obsessed with
bringing its customers special finds every day—all at incredible
prices. zulily features an always-fresh curated collection for the
whole family, including clothing, home decor, toys, gifts and more.
Unique products from up-and-coming brands are featured alongside
favorites from top brands, giving customers something new to
discover each morning. zulily was launched in 2010 and is
headquartered in Seattle with offices in Nevada, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. For more information, visit www.zulily.com.
zulily, LLC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qurate Retail, Inc.
(NASDAQ: QRTEA, QRTEB), which includes QVC, HSN, zulily and the
Cornerstone brands (collectively, “Qurate Retail Group”), as well
as other minority investments. Qurate Retail Group believes in a
third way to shop – beyond transactional ecommerce or traditional
brick-and-mortar stores – and is #1 in video commerce, #3 in
ecommerce in North America and #3 in mobile commerce in the U.S.
(according to Internet Retailer). For more information, visit
www.qurateretailgroup.com.
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