Scalable storefronts and PCI-compliant checkout for peak season
From single-store retailers to multi-country eCommerce platforms, Aphelion delivers the autoscaling infrastructure, omnichannel inventory sync and PCI-compliant checkout that keeps revenue flowing — even when traffic spikes 10x on Black Friday.
The pressure points we solve
Every sector has its own realities. These are the challenges retail & ecommerce organisations bring to us most often.
Peak-season traffic spikes
Black Friday, Eid, Christmas and end-of-year sales can send traffic 10x higher than average. Static infrastructure either crashes under load or costs a fortune to keep provisioned year-round.
PCI-compliant checkout
Every checkout page is in PCI scope. A single misconfiguration can expose cardholder data, trigger fines and destroy customer trust.
Omnichannel inventory sync
Online, in-store and marketplace channels must share real-time inventory. Latency or downtime means overselling, stockouts and angry customers.
Fraud & account takeover
eCommerce sites are prime targets for credential stuffing, payment fraud and fake reviews. Without 24/7 monitoring, attacks go undetected for days.
How Aphelion delivers
Tailored infrastructure, security and managed services for the realities of retail & ecommerce.
Elastic cloud autoscaling
Cloud-native infrastructure that scales up automatically during traffic spikes and scales down when demand subsides — you pay for capacity you use, not capacity you might need.
PCI-scoped checkout segmentation
We isolate your payment flow into a hardened, minimally-scoped PCI environment with tokenisation, WAF and end-to-end encryption — reducing audit complexity and protecting cardholder data.
Omnichannel inventory platform
Low-latency, highly-available hosting for your inventory and order management system (Shopify, Magento, custom) with real-time sync across all sales channels.
Broadsword MDR for retail
24/7 managed detection and response tuned for eCommerce threats — credential stuffing, payment fraud, Magecart-style skimming and DDoS — with automated blocking and incident response.
Regulations we help you meet
We design, document and operate infrastructure that meets the compliance requirements specific to retail & ecommerce.
- PCI-DSS for payment processing
- GDPR for customer data
- Mauritius DPA 2017
- ISO 27001 controls
Relevant Aphelion services
The Aphelion services most commonly requested by retail & ecommerce organisations.
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