The security of an eCommerce platform is critical as it contains customer data. The eCommerce platforms hosted with leading cloud vendors provides the latest security features. Customers will benefit from a highly secured cloud platform, and the network architecture is built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations and to cater the compliance and security like PCI or ISO. An advantage of the cloud is that it allows customers to scale and innovate while maintaining a secure environment using application firewalls, security monitoring, Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware.

There is a content deliver web service that speeds up distribution of static and dynamic web content, such as .html, .css, .js, and image files, to end-users. The content delivery services deliver the content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations. The content is delivered with the best possible performance through the content delivery solution in place, integrated within the eCommerce platform, when a request is raised and the user is routed to the edge location that provides the lowest latency.

Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD) tools offers a full managed deployment service that automates software deployments to a variety of computing services such as Virtual Machines, Docker Containers, Server less Architecture, and on-premises servers.

“Infrastructure as a code” offers solutions to provision immutable infrastructure. It ensures efficient creation and deployment of intermediate environments:

• Development
• QA
• Staging
• Promotion

Industry-leading software analytics products for application performance monitoring (APM) delivers real-time and trending data about the web application's performance and the level of satisfaction that end-users experience. The reports generated through APM tools help in actionable intelligence.

The application load and the load distribution can be varied over time. The underlying infrastructure of the eCommerce platform must be able to handle the application traffic without causing any downtime. To handle the spike or increase in traffic, the administrator takes advantage of the vertical and horizontal scaling of infrastructure. The right-sizing of underlying infrastructure may also be done through accurate demand forecasting on the eCommerce portal.

Load Balancing solutions are implemented to distribute incoming traffic for the application across the eCommerce platform. This increases the availability of your application. Placing your eCommerce solution in multiple locations with high synchronization of data improves the fault tolerance in your application. If one location experiences an outage, traffic is routed to the other.