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Mercado Libre on AWS

Mercado Libre is the largest e-commerce platform in Latin America, serving 18 countries. It leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve scalability, security, and performance so it can continue to innovate.

Overview

The company relies on AWS’s analytics and machine learning services to deliver e-commerce scalability and support the rapid growth of its Mercado Pago digital payment platform and Mercado Crédito credit line. Scalable compute and storage capabilities help fuel an optimal customer experience even during busy shopping periods such as holidays, with peak transactions of more than 2.2 million per second.

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Mercado Libre reshapes retail media with Amazon Bedrock

With AWS Partner Mutt Data and Stability AI in Amazon Bedrock, Mercado Libre developed GenAds, an innovative solution that automates the creation of compelling product images. The company helped sellers of all sizes to attract customers, increase click-through rates (CTR) by an average of 25%, and boost sales effectively.

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AWS Well-Architected Framework drives network security excellence at scale at Mercado Libre

Through an in-depth exploration of Mercado Libre's journey - Latin America's largest e-commerce platform operating across 18 countries with over 144 million active users - discover how they architected a sophisticated multi-environment security solution handling 300 terabytes of daily traffic across 30,000 microservices.

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Mercado Libre improved time to market with AWS cloud services

Mercado Libre selected AWS during the development of an internal platform that helps the company to exploit AWS services in greater depth, becoming more efficient, growing more rapidly and meeting the needs of their customers in an ever better way.

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How Mercado Libre engineers achieve a NoOps experience with Amazon EKS

Mercado Libre used Amazon EKS and platform engineering to power their scalable microservices platform, Fury. Leveraging these technologies, the company can boost developer productivity, streamline operations, and enable scalable application architectures.

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Mercado Libre's cloud journey

AWS helps Mercado Livre process more than 40 purchases per second in 18 countries

The creation of the Fury platform guarantees developers ease in the development and operation process, offering database service abstractions through AWS services. There are 17,000 databases and 56,000 Data Services that generate 900 million requests per minute between all communications from the approximately 24 thousand microservices in Mercado Livre.

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Mercado Livre is a pioneer in running industrial automation workloads in the cloud

Mercado Libre works under the guideline of using the cloud as its first option for running industrial workloads. The company uses AWS Outposts for applications such as the sorter (belt), automation, and robots within operations that needed local infrastructure.

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re:Invent Breakout Session with Mercado Libre

In this session, explore the value story of AWS with examples of transformational business value AWS customers have achieved and the steps they took to achieve it. Learn about research showing that the benefits of AWS adoption can surpass IT cost savings, keeping in mind that TCO is a frequently-cited driver of migrations. Learn how successful companies think about measurable business value in the cloud from migration to modernization, and what you can do to maximize the value of your cloud investments.

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Manage and Control your AWS Costs

Sebastian Barrios, vice president of technology at Mercado Libre, deep dives into how the organization manages costs in the cloud. Key to this is the machine learning algorithms that determine the capacity its teams need in different regions. By automatically scaling up and down according to demand—and taking advantage of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances—Mercado Libre can control costs and optimize its entire operations across Latin America.

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The use of Amazon Bedrock played a crucial role in improving our data processing and creative capabilities, with the combined efforts of Mutt Data and AWS.

Pablo Moretti

VP of Mercado Libre's Marketplace
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With the reliability of Amazon DynamoDB, we can avoid the cost of downtime.

Oscar Mullin

Director of IT and Head of Core Services, Site Reliability Engineering, and Database Administration, Mercado Libre
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The experience we had with AWS Graviton2-based instances was so seamless we have decided to assess the feasibility of moving even more workloads for other areas of the company.

Oscar Mullin

Director of IT and Head of Core Services, Site Reliability Engineering, and Database Administration, Mercado Libre

Discover more on Mercado Libre's cloud journey

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About Mercado Libre

Mercado Libre is a Latin American technology company that offers ecommerce solutions so that individuals and companies can buy, sell, pay, advertise, and ship products through the internet. Mercado Libre uses a suite of AWS solutions that drives ecommerce and supports the rapid growth of its Mercado Pago digital payment platform and Mercado Crédito credit line.

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