Costcutter is a symbol group for 1500+ independent UK retailers that provides benefits like competitive pricing and advertising. Its order capture platform needs to be elastic to handle demand peaks, highly available 24/7, and resilient during disasters. AWS offers customizable EC2 instances, pay-as-you-go pricing, load balancing, auto scaling, availability zones, and monitoring that provide an affordable solution meeting these requirements with no technology lock-in.

1. Why AWS? Francis Barton IT Development Manager

3. 1500+ franchise stores in the UK

4. Member benefits:

5. Competitive pricing

6. Access to both national and local suppliers

7. TV and press advertising

8. 3 weekly promotion cycle supported by local leaflet drops

9. Quarterly rebates

10. Regional sales force offering local retail advice

11. Store re-fit specialists

12. Category management and merchandising team

13. Tailor-made EPoS solution

16. High Availability – orders placed any time of day or night

17. Disaster Recovery – 1500+ businesses affected

20. Pay-as-You-Go Charging Model

21. Elastic Load Balancing

22. Auto Scaling

23. Separate Availability Zones

25. Current Application Architecture

26. Future Application Architecture

28. No Technology Lock-in

29. On-demand Elasticity

30. Affordable HA/ DR

32. Interaction with DB in York

33. JPA Cache Co-ordination

34. RDS Failover Transparency

35. Flexible Platform:

36. No Technology Lock-in

37. On-demand Elasticity

38. Affordable HA/ DR

40. Interaction with DB in York

41. JPA Cache Co-ordination

42. RDS Failover Transparency

43. Great Deployment Platform:

44. No Technology Lock-in

45. On-demand Elasticity

46. Affordable HA/ DR

47. Trusted Brand