Digital Auto Auction Platform

Industry Context

Auto auctions have played a significant role in the automotive industry, providing a marketplace for buying and selling vehicles. The client, an American company established in 2007, recognized the potential for innovation in this space. By leveraging its brick-and-mortar auto auction industry expertise, our client set out to revolutionize auto auctions. An online-only auction website seamlessly connects buyers and sellers, disrupting the traditional auction model and empowering buyers and sellers to participate in auctions from anywhere at any time. Encora’s expertise in AWS helped the client migrate to the cloud.

Client Challenge

The client encountered significant infrastructure challenges, primarily due to the high cost of an overprovisioned server. The app suffered downtime every 15 days. Instead of preventing crashes and enhancing auction performance, the on-prem approach proved financially burdensome. Moreover, high availability and smooth performance are critical for time-limited auctions. A single on-premises server meant a single point of failure and several difficulties when diagnosing issues. On-premises resource provisioning and hosting application parts on a single server also made scaling and business expansion difficult.

Why AWS?

AWS is the most popular cloud platform with significantly more managed features in comparison to other options
AWS provides infrastructure-related services such as computing, storage, networking and security.
AWS delivers top-tier provisions for high availability, automated scalability, enhanced security, serverless architecture and services, and high-level data storage, among others

Results

Provides 99.99% uptime through multi-AZ for RDS with autoscaling groups
Increases security at the networking and infrastructure level

Enhances availability and performance on all application levels by reducing infrastructure costs by 30%
Offers high availability and disaster recovery measures (like multiple availability zones for databases and backend environments, automatic scaling, and others)
Improves observability across the application and infrastructure through monitoring tools like AWS CloudWatch
Provides continuous deployment automation using AWS CodeDeploy

Digital Auto Auction Platform

Digital Auto Auction Platform

Industry Context

Client Challenge

Approach

Why AWS?

AWS Solution

Results

Infrastructure Costs

Accelerate Your Path
to Market Leadership

Digital Auto Auction Platform

Digital Auto Auction Platform

Industry Context

Client Challenge

Approach

Why AWS?

AWS Solution

Results

Infrastructure Costs

Accelerate Your Path to Market Leadership

Accelerate Your Path
to Market Leadership