Case Study: Cloud Optimization for an E-Commerce Platform

E-Commerce Platform

An e-commerce platform serving over 500,000 users faced escalating AWS costs of $85,000 per month, frequent performance issues during peak traffic, and scaling limitations caused by a complex monolithic architecture.

Challenge

GENEXTECH’s Solution

GENEXTECH’s cloud optimization team conducted a comprehensive 10-week optimization program, including:

• Performing a full AWS Well-Architected Review across all six pillars.

• Right-sizing more than 120 EC2 instances using AWS Compute Optimizer.

• Migrating workloads to Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.

• Modernizing the architecture with microservices and serverless components.

Results

“GENEXTECH helped us save over $600,000 annually while transforming our architecture into a scalable, cost-effective, high-performance foundation ready for future growth.”

- Ms. Tran Thi F, CTO, E-Commerce Platform

58%

Cost Reduction

10 weeks

$600K+

65%

Annual savings

Implementation time

Performance Improvement

Key Outcomes

Client Testimonial

After optimization, the e-commerce platform achieved:

• AWS monthly cost reduced from $85,000 to $35,700.

• Page load time improved from 4.2s to 1.5s.

• Peak traffic capacity increased by 300% with no performance degradation.

• 60% reduction in operational overhead through automation and monitoring.