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Peak capacity by the second
Add machines for the sale and release them afterwards. Nothing reserved, nothing left over.
Retail traffic is seasonal and sometimes sudden: a sale, a holiday, a product that catches on. Most retailers pay for peak capacity all year or pay the leading cloud on-demand prices when it comes. Compute bills by the second at 30% under the leading cloud for the same machines and databases, so the peak costs less and the quiet months cost little.
Used by independent shops, direct-to-consumer brands, marketplaces and Fortune 500 retailers.
What this looks like in practice
Add machines for the sale and release them afterwards. Nothing reserved, nothing left over.
Panel builds and hosts the shop, with build minutes at 30% under the leading cloud’s hosting builds and Nexus serving it close to shoppers.
Carts, orders and inventory in CosmoBase at 30% under the leading cloud’s managed databases, with order queues in Cloud Services.
Write and translate product descriptions with AI inference at 30% under the leading cloud’s model service for the same model.
Retail infrastructure is usually sized for the busiest week and paid for in all the others. Per-second billing at a lower price breaks that link: you have the capacity for the peak when it comes and a much smaller bill when it has gone.
A big sale needs several times the usual capacity for a few days. On Compute you add it by the second and release it when the sale ends, at 30% under the leading cloud for the same machines and databases. The bill for the month reads like the sales graph, and the rest of the year is not carrying the cost of one week.
Cart and order services on Compute Instances with queues between the steps, so a busy minute does not lose an order.
Recommendations and search on per-second machines and GPUs, sized to the traffic you actually have.
Customer service assistants on AI inference, billed per token and handing over to a person when they should.
Register domains and manage DNS for each brand and market in the same account as the shops.
Compared with the leading cloud's own published on-demand prices, US East. Every comparison.
Your storefront and order systems run here, and most retailers use a payment provider for card handling. If you need a specific payment-industry attestation, ask us directly and we will tell you plainly what we hold today.
Test at full size a week before, for as long as the test takes, and pay only for those seconds. On the day, add capacity as traffic arrives and release it afterwards.
We claim 30% under the leading cloud only on machines, databases, build minutes, tokens and support. Storage and bandwidth prices are published on the pricing page for you to compare directly.
Both. A small shop can run within the free allowances, and a Fortune 500 retailer uses the same platform and published prices, usually with an Enterprise support plan.
Run agents, the tools they call and the models behind them on one platform, billed by the token and the second, for less than the same work costs on the leading cloud.
Host the landing pages, attribution pipelines and onboarding flows that bring customers in, and spend less on the infrastructure than you would on the leading cloud.
Run campaign sites, personalisation, content pipelines and marketing data on one platform that costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines and models.
Run the forms, enrichment jobs, scoring models and routing that turn interest into leads, for less than the same infrastructure costs on the leading cloud.
Run CRMs, sales data, call analysis and AI assistants on one platform, priced under the leading cloud for the same machines, databases and models.
Host creator platforms, media processing, storefronts and AI tools on infrastructure that bills by the second and costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines.
Begin with one workload. Keep what you have running. Decide whether to continue once you have seen it carry something real.
No migration required to begin. Nothing to tear down if you stop.