With the global coronavirus outbreak and cities lockdown, e-commerce has become the indispensable platform for people to purchase food, daily necessaries and daily necessities. According to Statista E-commerce report, retail e-commerce sales worldwide amounted to 3.53 trillion US dollars in 2019, it is about 14% of the total global retail sales of the year (25 trillion US dollars), the ratio of online sales kept rising in the past 10 years and estimated to be proceed with the climb.
The technology is the key factors to e-commence evolution, e-commerce can be hugely benefited from cloud computing in many ways. Business who aim to capture values from the e-commerce market trend should pay attention to how cloud computing helps to save time and resource
1. Scalable
The scalability of cloud server perfectly complements the needs of e-commerce businesses, it allows brands to upscale or downscale to meet the changing demand, traffic and seasonal spikes. The change of cloud package can be activated in few minutes which help businesses to avoid any losses due to the overload website traffic.
2. Speed
A recent study found out that 40% of customers abandon a web page if it takes more than three seconds to load. While a sudden traffic spikes can slow down the website and make it nonresponsive, cloud server provides you a greater bandwidth, stronger computational power, faster and stable website connections.
3. Savings
Businesses do not need to invest in hardware and software infrastructure if they are placing their websites in cloud server. The overall I.T. spending would be reduced because they only pay for what they need and used with cloud hosting. I.T. supports from cloud providers may further reduce website maintenance cost.
4. Security
The firewall options safeguard business websites from virus and threats. The auto-backup service ensures all your websites data are protected and able to be recovering from the server. Last but not least, the DDoS protection feature protect your websites from DDoS attack, these superior security measures minimize the potential risk to your brand image.
