EBusiness Discussion 5

Electronic Commerce Hardware and Software Institution Date Introduction Many business enterprises have made far-reaching investments in system resources. Growth and expansion brings with it system challenges and need to update to a better performing system. One of the companies which has experienced tremendous growth since 2006 is a united kingdom based flower firm known as Arena flowers. Having experience growth in demand for its products, arena flowers moved from hoster system to website services software anchored on amazon's relational database service. The new profile provided a ground to handle web content and transaction details. Having shifted from hoster to amazon web services, specifically amazon relational database service(RDS) the firm has realized tremendous growth and the success has been replicated elsewhere. The new platform provided arena flowers with scalability and flexibility option needed for growth. Arena Flower Company decided to settle on amazon relational database service built for MySQL. After first trial run with RDS, Arena Flower Company decided to fully implement the system and within a period of eighteen months, the company had posted greater results (Amazon Web Services, 2016). The company decided to migrate its entire infrastructure to amazon web services which run RDS. The move has enabled the company to expand its business and complete massive orders even on high seasons and holidays. It has also enabled the company to register thirty percent reduction in hosting cost. Amazon web services not only save Arena Flowers Company but also provide them with options to manipulate options and creates new instances (Amazon Web Services, 2016). The change from hoster enables it to deploy faster compared to when they had hoster. One of the main advantages of using web services and it...