Summary: Seattle-based online retailer Zulily is in the process of moving the majority of its cloud infrastructure to AWS. The move stands out as it comes at a time where many retailers have been thinking twice about working with a cloud provider that is also a direct competitor. This is evidently not a concern for Zulily as the retailer has already begun moving its online store, mobile app, and supply-chain workloads to the AWS cloud; using AWS Lambda for event-driven processing and Amazon Aurora for its core production database. AWS has shared that Zulily has already seen a 30-40% performance improvement per request across its website and mobile app. Zulily previously split these workloads between Rackspace and Google Cloud Platform, but last year decided to centralize most of its services on to a single provider. It did consider Azure and Google Cloud Platform as well as AWS. Zulily eventually landed on AWS stating that they found them to have the widest variety of services, and the most useful tools for their business. Zulily, however, won’t be using AWS exclusively. They also run Microsoft Office 365, and plan to continue using Google Cloud Platform for select data services and analysis and prediction tools. Yet another sign that multi-cloud strategies are gaining ground.
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