Building an ecommerce store is just the beginning; the real art lies in ensuring it performs flawlessly under any circumstances. Think about Black Friday or major product launches—these are moments when your site needs to shine, not falter. But setting up and maintaining the infrastructure to guarantee this level of reliability isn’t cheap. For a small DevOps team alone, costs can soar beyond $600,000 annually.
That’s why we built Alokai Cloud . It’s a production-ready infrastructure, designed specifically for ecommerce, pre-configured so you can deploy your storefront without the hefty investment in DevOps or SecOps. Instead of worrying about setup, your team can focus on what really matters—delivering an exceptional customer experience.
What is Alokai Cloud and who is it for?
With Alokai Cloud, you get a production-ready environment with 99,9% SLA that eliminates the complexities of designing a system, preparing servers, configuring software, or managing network connections. Instead of spending significant time and resources upfront, Alokai Cloud provides these capabilities out of the box, so you can focus on starting and growing your business.
Who is it for?
Alokai Cloud is designed specifically for Alokai customers, including developers, operations teams, and business leaders. It’s the infrastructure backbone of the Alokai ecosystem, powering Alokai Storefront, Console, and integrations that form a modern, composable ecommerce stack. This platform is built to ensure your ecommerce operations are fast, secure, and reliable.
Key benefits:
Security: With enterprise-grade built-in WAF, Multilayer DDoS firewall, GDPR compliance, ISO 27001 certification, and PCI Level 4 standards, Alokai Cloud safeguards your data and simplifies the compliance process.
Built-in performance optimization: Alokai Cloud comes equipped with tools like caching mechanisms, autoscaling, and global CDN integration to enhance speed and ensure stability, even during high-traffic events like Black Friday.
Lower cost: By removing the need for extensive DevOps and SecOps investments, Alokai Cloud significantly lowers the total cost of ownership for our customers.
Why should ecommerce CTOs choose Alokai Cloud over IaaS?
Most IaaS providers like AWS or GCP offer raw infrastructure, leaving the burden of setup, maintenance, and optimization on your shoulders. This often means investing heavily in specialized DevOps resources and spending countless hours configuring environments, monitoring performance, and troubleshooting issues. Alokai Cloud eliminates these pain points by providing a production-ready infrastructure tailored specifically for ecommerce.
Feature | IaaS (like GCP, AWS, Digital Ocean) | Alokai Cloud |
Infrastructure management | Requires a dedicated DevOps & SecOps team and cloud architect. | Production-ready, fully managed by Alokai, saving up to $400K annually*. |
Learning curve | Steep learning curve requiring experienced, interdisciplinary teams. | Simplified, hands-off deployment with Alokai experts handling optimization and security. |
Pricing model | Granular, usage-based pricing makes total costs unpredictable. | Transparent pricing based on request volumes; costs grow only as your business grows. |
Deployment automation | Requires building CI/CD pipelines from scratch, taking weeks to implement. | Integrated CI/CD workflows ready out-of-the-box (OOTB). |
Here’s how Alokai Cloud stands out:
Out-of-the-box functionality: No need for manual setup or managing servers—deploy faster with pre-configured environments optimized for ecommerce.
Integrated tools and services: Autoscaling, global CDN, and real-time monitoring are built in, so your team can focus on innovation instead of infrastructure management.
Cost efficiency: Avoid the expense of hiring a full DevOps team while still benefiting from a highly secure and scalable platform.
Alokai Cloud key features
Production-ready infrastructure
Setting up and maintaining a secure, scalable, and high-performance ecommerce platform can be complex and costly. Alokai Cloud simplifies this with pre-configured environments and automated CI/CD workflows, eliminating the need for extensive technical resources.
Benefits:
Reduce operational costs by eliminating the need for additional team members and manual infrastructure setup.
Focus on development with hands-off deployment processes.
Speed up go to market with testing, staging, and production environments ready for use.
Security
Alokai Cloud provides enterprise-grade security to protect customer data and ensure compliance with industry standards. From GDPR compliance to multilayered DDoS firewalls, Web Application Firewall and rigid processes for risk management and mitigation we prioritize security.
Autoscaling
Traffic spikes during events like Black Friday or holiday sales can overwhelm traditional setups, leading to downtime and lost revenue. Alokai Cloud’s horizontal and vertical autoscaling ensures consistent performance even during peak times by dynamically adding or removing resources based on demand. Using cloud-native infrastructure, it relies on horizontal pod autoscaling, which adjusts based on resource utilization such as CPU and RAM. Additionally, the cluster autoscaler continuously analyzes resource usage and automatically optimizes CPU and memory requests. This approach gives merchants confidence that their stores will handle massive traffic without compromising performance.
Benefits:
Maintain stability during high-traffic events with robust autoscaling mechanisms.
Enhance customer experience with always-available infrastructure.
Prevent resource overuse with tools to block unwanted and dangerous traffic.
Multi-geo setup, SSR Cache & CDN
Alokai Cloud’s global infrastructure ensures fast and reliable content delivery through caching and CDN mechanisms. Its multi-regional setup enhances both reliability and performance.
We've made it even faster since by deploying a content delivery network (CDN) and some caching onto the site. So, it's probably near 6 to 7 times faster than it was before. Customers can now navigate the website in seconds!
David Tidy, Digital Product Manager at Brompton.
Benefits:
Improve performance by serving content from servers closest to customers.
Increase reliability with multi-regional redundancy to prevent downtime.
Optimize load times with efficient caching mechanisms.
Access to Alokai Console
Every Alokai Cloud user gains access to the Alokai Console , a centralized tool for monitoring and managing infrastructure. It simplifies tasks like environment setup, deployment tracking, and troubleshooting.
Benefits:
Accelerate issue resolution with advanced logging and alerting.
Gain insights into performance metrics and resource usage.
Optimize configurations with tools for caching and auditing.
Summary
Alokai Cloud is a critical component of the modern ecommerce stack, designed to support the complexities of composable architectures while providing reliability and performance.
If you are looking into updating your ecommerce frontend, look into Alokai products, including Storefront , ecommerce integrations, Cloud, and Console .
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