Case Study: Bazaarvoice achieves scalable, high-performance storage for rapid data growth with Amazon Web Services (Amazon EBS)

Bazaarvoice - Customer Case Study

Bazaarvoice provides social commerce solutions for major brands and retailers, helping capture and display consumer ratings and reviews seen by hundreds of millions of users each month. As it migrated from a siloed SQL, collocated environment to an elastic NoSQL platform on AWS, rapid content growth (doubling about every 18 months) pushed its Amazon EBS volumes toward a 1 TB limit, threatening costly re‑architecting and cluster splits.

Bazaarvoice adopted AWS’s larger, faster EBS volumes (tested pre‑production), allowing moves from 1 TB to 2+ TB volumes with up to 20,000 IOPS and higher throughput. The upgrade eliminated storage constraints, halved replica warm‑up times, avoided complex cluster rework, and freed the team to focus on new applications and scaling rather than data‑reduction engineering.

Bazaarvoice

Joseph Poirier

Senior Manager of Platform Infrastructure