Abstract
Consumers shifted their spending to the web due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Businesses and organizations that once mapped digital strategy with careful planning over a transition period, now forced to scale their initiatives in a matter of days. In this regard, we are motivated by the need to develop a scalable, highly available, resilient, secure, and cost-effective e-commerce web application for demonstrating how cloud services can be leveraged for implementing such applications. 
 
 This paper is a part of the aforementioned web application development project, titled “A cloud-based e-commerce storefront prototype for SMEs in Oman”. In this paper, we discuss the system considerations, components of implementation, and the schematic design of the proposed software solution.
 
 This paper provides meaningful guidelines for companies that want to adopt cloud-based E-commerce web application to bring their products and services online without much upfront cost or initial investment.
Highlights
The sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations and businesses to scale their technological initiative overnight
This paper provides meaningful guidelines for companies that want to adopt cloud-based E-commerce web application to bring their products and services online without much upfront cost or initial investment
Though the discussion here is in the Microsoft Azure cloud context, the proposed design can be implemented in any public cloud such as Google cloud or AWS
Summary
The sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations and businesses to scale their technological initiative overnight. In order to benefit from the surges in online shopping, organizations were seeking ways to bring their products and services online without much upfront cost or initial infrastructure investment. We discuss the system considerations, components of implementation, and the schematic design of a cloud-based e-commerce web application. Though the discussion here is in the Microsoft Azure cloud context, the proposed design can be implemented in any public cloud such as Google cloud or AWS. We did not find any authentic study that generally suggests one cloud service provider over the other
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