Is your eCommerce solution ready for the cloud? This practical guide shows architects how to incrementally adopt cloud computing (specifically public Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service) and to marshal as much capacity as needed to handle peak holiday or special-event traffic. Advances in cloud over the past few years now make it possible to run an enterprise-class eCommerce platform out of a cloud. This book helps architects leverage these advances by covering: Cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, Software-as-a-Service) and deployment models (public, hybrid, private) The impact of omnichannel retailing on platform architecture and deployment architecture How to build an auto-scaling solution that can quickly add or subtract hardware in response to real-time traffic Re-applying what you already know about security to cloud Running a single eCommerce platform from multiple data centers, including several forms of multi-master Building a hybrid solution or deploy your entire platform in the cloud Application and deployment architecture for "cloud native" through legacy eCommerce platforms How to use Software-as-a-Service for eCommerce, including Content Delivery Networks and Global Site Load Balancing services