Amazon Web Services Japan G.K. hosted Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. on July 24, 2024 for its 4.5 hour lecture on the theme of “Engineers Weaving Fast Retailing’s Digital Transformation: A Global Challenge”. This blog post reports on the contents of the lecture, following up on the previous post. The job titles are as of the day of event. The AWS Infrastructure Supporting Fast Retailing’s IT Shigeru Horikawa, Director, Infrastructure, Digital Business Transformation Services, Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. Mr. Horikawa from the Infrastructure team spoke about Fast Retailing’s history and the current status of AWS cloud utilization, as well as the ingenuity involved in operating a large-scale cloud environment with a small team. Fast Retailing needs to connect over 3,500 stores globally, support an ecommerce (EC) business in around 30 markets, and help sustain the entire supply chain, including warehouses and factories worldwide. To keep up with the rapid business expansion, instead of building data centers for each business, a cloud that can scale globally and procure infrastructure quickly became essential. A major reason for cloud adoption was the 2017 EC site downtime. Experiencing 3 days of downtime and facing issues like difficulty in on-premises capacity expansion and traffic control […]
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Invest The Invisible Impact
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Invest The Invisible Impact
