“AWS is how”: Vestiaire Collective promotes sustainable circular fashion around the world

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By using a highly scalable infrastructure on AWS, Vestiaire Collective can easily scale its marketplace to support international traffic peaks. 

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Fast fashion is seriously damaging to the environment. The fashion industry alone is responsible for more carbon emissions than all international flights and shipping combined. What’s more, nearly 57% of discarded clothing ends up in landfill. Fast fashion contributes to many environmental problems, such as excessive water consumption, plastic microfibers and toxic wastewater.

In addition, global apparel production growth is expected to reach 63 % by 2030. If the sector maintains this level of growth, we will witness a staggering 50% increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

Vestiaire Collective is on a mission to transform the fashion industry and achieve a sustainable future by encouraging the circular fashion movement.  The world's first B Corp-certified fashion resale platform, the company provides a global marketplace for second-hand fashion items. It allows users around the world to sell, buy and view high-end, verified and validated products on a website in their local language. This website runs on a cloud-native Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. Vestiaire Collective chose to migrate to the AWS cloud to improve its scalability and localization capabilities by achieving its development goals at no additional cost.
 
It couldn’t be simpler to sell and buy on Vestiaire Collective. The company has migrated away from its on-premise server model and can now deploy its marketplace in different AWS regions, and thus position its solution as close as possible to users around the world. This proximity reduces latency for the global Vestiaire Collective community, and improves the user experience through improved site availability. When somebody visits the Vestiaire Collective website, the content of the marketplace is automatically translated into their local language, which improves the accessibility of the site, and increases the company’s global reach.

By using a highly scalable infrastructure on AWS, Vestiaire Collective can easily scale its marketplace to support international traffic peaks. Using AWS also allows the company to host and run open source solutions, giving their team the ability to test and work on new tools and expand their knowledge of the cloud.

Vestiaire Collective gives more users access to circular fashion and thus contributes to reducing waste, promoting sustainability , and engaging communities in a transformation towards a greener economy. The company achieves this by leveraging cloud-native AWS capabilities and technologies.

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