Prepare for changing demand
Plan how the app handles more visitors, orders or payments as the business grows.
Ready for your next busy day.
Build software that can handle changing demand, with experience from customer apps, rewards and payments running on Amazon’s cloud services.
Discuss your projectCloud services provide the computing and storage behind an app. Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is one provider. Retter has years of experience building and looking after business software using these services.
Serverless means the cloud provider manages much of the underlying computing capacity. Your application still needs to be designed, secured, tested and supported. We look after those details with your team.
What we can build.
Keep information moving
Make connections between your tools dependable, including when one is slow or unavailable.
Look after access and costs
Control who can use the software, spot problems and understand what the service costs to run.
When is this useful?
An app may be quiet one day and busy the next. Cloud services can help it use more computing capacity when demand rises and less when it falls.
We look at the app’s needs, the tools it depends on and the cost of running the whole service. A particular cloud setup is only useful if it fits the business.
What still needs looking after?
The app must protect customer information, handle payments correctly and recover when a connected service has a problem. Someone needs to spot issues and know how to fix them.
Retter plans those responsibilities with your team. We test busy periods and failure cases, agree who has access and make the running costs visible.
Can our existing app move to the cloud?
We first look at the app, its information and the other tools it connects to. Sometimes one part can move first; other projects need a wider change.
Our Starbucks and Emirates Leisure Retail stories describe specific projects and their results. For your business, we agree what should improve and check the result against your own starting point.
AWS experience.
Put to work.
Our Starbucks customer story describes how we rebuilt rewards and payment software using Amazon Web Services (AWS). These are some of the services behind that app, and what each one does.
Read the Starbucks story- Connect your appsAmazon API Gateway
- A place where apps send requests and receive information.
- Carry out app tasksAWS Lambda
- Run tasks such as looking up rewards or processing a request.
- Keep information safeAmazon DynamoDB & S3
- Store records, images and other files the app needs.
- Help pages load safelyAmazon CloudFront & AWS WAF
- Deliver content and help filter unwanted web traffic.
Examples from the published Starbucks project. We choose the right services for the needs of each new app.
Related experience · Emirates Leisure Retail
CRM, loyalty, and wallet — modernized across 300+ outlets.
CRM, loyalty, and wallet for 300+ outlets — with Apple Pay and zero DevOps spend since launch.
Read the Emirates Leisure Retail story- F&B outlets
- 300+
- lower cost
- 70%
- faster development
- 10x
Emirates Leisure Retail is a documented AWS modernization engagement. Its reported savings are project-specific and are not a forecast for another workload.
Start with your brief.
Build with our experience.
Tell us what you want people to be able to do. We agree what to build first, connect it to your other tools and help your team try it before launch. Then we stay to keep improving it.
How we build and launchQuestions about
reliable cloud software.
Does serverless mean there is nothing to look after?
No. The cloud provider handles much of the computing capacity. The app still needs someone to manage access, check that it works, fix problems and make changes.
Will moving to the cloud always save money?
No. Cost depends on how the app is used and built. We review the current costs and expected demand before recommending a change.
Can you help with an app already using AWS?
Yes. We can review a problem, improve a connection or plan a larger change. We start with what is not working well for the business.