Case Study: commercetools achieves scalable, reliable ecommerce growth with Google Cloud Platform

Commercetools Democratizing commerce technology with Google Cloud

commercetools, a cloud commerce platform provider, needed a reliable and scalable infrastructure to support rapid growth and extreme traffic spikes from customers’ ecommerce sites. Its existing setup was strained, costly, and vulnerable to outages, so the company looked for a cloud partner with strong Kubernetes support and global scale. Google Cloud Platform, specifically Google Kubernetes Engine, fit those needs.

Google Cloud Platform helped commercetools migrate its stack in just 30 minutes with zero downtime, using Terraform to automate much of the process. With Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, and per-minute pricing, commercetools improved performance and flexibility while cutting monthly per-gigabyte costs by over 70%. Since moving to Google Cloud Platform, the company has had no infrastructure-related outages and can spin up containers in seconds to handle demand peaks.

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Kelly Goetsch

Chief Product Officer