Magento on Linux with Aurora on Cloud

Magento on Linux with Aurora on Cloud

November 1, 2017

1-click AWS Deployment

Overview

Magento is a podium built on open source technology which provides online merchants with supple shopping cart system, as well as control over the look, content and functionality of their online store. Magento offers powerful marketing, search engine optimization, and catalog-management tools. Common Places uses the community-based Magento product for our ecommerce clients. Magento’s capability to scale permits shops with only a few products and simple needs to easily expand to tens of thousands of products and complex custom behavior without changing platforms. It offers a variety of plug-ins and themes which can easily improve a customer’s experience. There are a lot of aspects to the online store which need to be configured, and how well that is skillful is often dependent on business insight.

Magento opensource vs. Magento commerce

The difference between Magento Commerce and Magento Opensource is given below:

  • Magento Opensource: Previously known as Magento Community, Magento Opensource, the free version of Magento that can be downloaded, customized, and self-hosted.
  • Magento Commerce: Previously, Magento Commerce came in two versions, Magento Enterprise and Magento Enterprise Cloud. Those two versions have been unified, leaving us with Magento Commerce, a premium version of Magento Opensource that includes cloud-hosting as part of the subscription fee.

Magento Opensource is available for everyone to download free of charge. It’s an open source platform that is free to use and you’re able to extend and configure the platform as you please. Also, Opensource users have access to a vast range of extensions and themes and are supported by a growing community.

Disadvantages of Magento as an eCommerce platform:

 1. Ongoing costs Magento regularly rolls out patches and security updates which needs to be manually installed. And believe me, the manual installation process is not as straightforward as you like it to be. You’re better off getting support to help you manage and install the updates, but this would come at a cost. You would need to hire Magento specialists or refer to official Magento support, which does not come cheap.

2. Needy technology If you’re using Magento Commerce edition, you’ll find that it’s based on an old approach of “download and customize”. Not only does that take time, but it also takes technical knowledge .This approach from Magento also saps your attention and energy away from the activities that will help you scale your business. Instead, you will be forced to worry about managing the technology and running updates as and when required.

3. The support sinkhole Magento has 1,300 open and ongoing support tickets. So if you run into issues, you may be waiting in line for fairly some time before you find a solution. If you want to bypass official Magento support your ongoing support costs will rise even further, as sovereign Magento support specialists charge substantial fees.

  1. Magento is just an eCommerce solution Magento is a planetary eCommerce platform, but that’s pretty much all it is. But in today’s eCommerce climate, to even stand a slim chance against the eCommerce goliaths like Amazon, you need so much more than just an eCommerce platform. The modern consumer isn’t satisfied with just a product page and some on-site reviews. They want content in abundance before they even consider a purchase. They want walkthroughs, unboxing videos, documentation, third-party reviews, and more.

5. Updates and migrations

Running Magento undergo an endless cycle of updates and running these maintenance procedures is not a forthright task. Also, you would ultimately have to migrate to the newest version of Magento, whenever they decide to roll that out. For example, currently, Magento 1 users are experiencing the pain of having to migrate to Magento 2.Magento 1 users have to either migrate to Magento 2 or replatform completely, as it was announced that Magento would not be providing support for Magento 1 after June 2022As you can imagine, the migration process isn’t easy or inexpensive. Many developers who have migrated to Magento 2 have commented on the difficulty of the move, as many Magento 1 themes and extensions are incompatible with Magento 2.

6. It’s open source

As an open source platform, Magento gives users the ability to customize the code in any way they like. That may sound great at first, but when you consider issue #5 mentioned previously, having a highly-customized, bespoke back-end will make your life even more difficult when it comes to inevitably migration or replatforming. Also if you stray too far away from commonly used theme and extensions that aren’t peer-reviewed or tested for usability, you’ll risk breaking your entire eCommerce environment. If you opt for a closed source enterprise eCommerce solution, you can still build a custom site with the help of the software vendor or an agency, but it will be done within the limits of the software, avoiding breakage and future headaches. Plus, closed source platforms have a much healthier track record when it comes to security.

7. Magento isn’t built for the IoT era

Magento Commerce has APIs to help deliver content to a wide range of channels, but as previously mentioned, Magento is just an eCommerce solution — it was never meant to manage a brand’s omnichannel strategy across all touchpoints. So, at best, you’ll get an inconsistent experience because you’ll have to draft in additional technology to plug the gaps left by Magento. Hardly ideal when brands like Amazon are providing seamlessly enjoyable shopping experiences.

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Magento with Aurora on Linux Server

Magento on the cloud is an open source E-commerce software, created by Varien Inc., which is useful for online business. It has a flexible modular architecture and is scalable with many control options that are helpful for users. Magento uses E-commerce platform which offers organizations ultimate E-commerce solutions and extensive support network.

Due to the initial setup of this image, it may take up to 20 minutes to launch.

Magento employs the MySQL or MariaDB relational database management system which in this case is Aurora DB Engine, the PHP programming language, and elements of the Zend Framework

Features

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Magento on Linux with Aurora on Cloud