CASE STUDY
E-Commerce Company Achieves Cloud Modernization
Mactores engineered and supported Poshmarks transformation by migrating 1,000 Amazon EC2 instances, and self-managed databases to Amazon managed services with near-zero downtime.
About
The Customer
Poshmark is a social commerce marketplace with 80 million users and over 200 million available listings. Poshmark brings together a vibrant community daily to express themselves and share their love of fashion.
Poshmark had quickly built out all of its Technology Infrastructure. Their infrastructure was hosted on various Applications Clusters in the US-West-1 Region of AWS. But by having their product launched for about six years, the Poshmark Business Team now needed their Applications and Infrastructure to be agile enough to allow for experimentation and deployment of multiple iterations of their product. US-West-1 is required to offer the proper framework for their rapidly growing needs. AWS engaged Mactores, an Advance consulting partner with Migration Competency, to access, strategize, design, and transform Poshmark’s infrastructure to support their needs.
“A big thank you to the Mactores team for the great execution! As a company, Poshmark recognizes how complex this project was and all the hard work it took to make this a smooth migration. Great team effort!”
Customer Situation
Poshmark was an early adopter of Amazon Web Services and built its entire platform on Amazon EC2, Amazon SQS, and Amazon S3. The Poshmark infrastructure team being nimble and pro-automation had developed ansible and terraform templates to perform deployments and automate upgrades. The Poshmark team was looking for zero-downtime migration to Amazon ECS from the self-managed Mesos Cluster, Amazon MSK from the self-managed Apache Kafka cluster, Amazon ES from Open ElasticSearch, and Amazon Aurora MySQL from self-managed MySQL Clusters.
Additionally, Poshmark’s user base was growing aggressively, and the Business teams wanted to ensure that their platform was flexible enough to sustain constant changes and growth. The Poshmark management team needed to ensure that their website did not experience any disruptions. With these objectives in mind, Mactores and Poshmark’s team worked together to define the most viable solutions for the long term.
Getting
Started
The Poshmark and AWS teams had already spent too many hours establishing a sensible starting point to resolve this ongoing challenge. The AWS team recommended using a partner and introduced Mactores based on solving a similar challenge with a high-profile AWS customer.
Mactores suggested performing the assessments that aligned with the Poshmark team's thinking. The assessment results clearly defined the previous efforts and needed strategy to move forward with the appropriate product solution for their rapidly changing needs.
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