CASE STUDY

ETSY SCALES INTO THE CLOUD WITH EQUINIX

How global commerce business Etsy is exploiting cloud possibilities

Global commerce business Etsy connects makers of handmade goods with buyers. Initially the company ran its entire platform on a handful of hosted servers, but as its business grew, Etsy decided to work with Equinix to deploy a cloud-enabled infrastructure that is fast, scalable and highly available.

Equinix has supported the company’s steady growth from one million to more than nine million members, and from 250 million to more than one billion page views per month. “Equinix provided us with the scalability and geographic diversity to satisfy our need for growth and redundancy,” says Mike Rembetsy, director of technical operations at Etsy.

The Equinix ecosystem has also enabled Etsy to develop and benefit from new strategic relationships with cloud service providers, such as content delivery network Akamai. “Our members also benefit from our proximity to social media providers like Facebook and Twitter, which ensures faster response times when these services are accessed from our site," says Rembetsy.

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