Case Study: a Fortune 500 discount retailer achieves faster sales analytics and multi-region eCommerce resilience with ClearScale on AWS

a Fortune 500 discount retailer cuts ETL processing from 8–12 hours to under 2 hours with ClearScale

A Fortune 500 discount retailer faced significant challenges with a legacy on-premise ETL process that took 8-12 hours to complete, delaying critical business insights. Simultaneously, the company needed to build a secure, production-grade eCommerce platform on AWS from the ground up to handle customer payment data. They engaged ClearScale for AWS consulting services to address these parallel needs.

ClearScale implemented a serverless AWS data lake that reduced daily ETL processing time to under two hours. They also built a multi-account eCommerce platform with full disaster recovery capabilities. The measurable impact for the retailer included gaining same-day sales visibility across 16,000+ stores and achieving a robust, secure cloud foundation. ClearScale delivered the entire solution with comprehensive operational runbooks and Terraform-based infrastructure as code to ensure the customer's operational independence.