Our customer Semark AC Group S.A., is a leading Spanish company in food distribution operating in the regions of Cantabria, Castilla y León and La Rioja. It operates under two brands, Lupa for retail and Top Cash for wholesale. Semark has experienced impressive growth in the last 5 years, reaching a turnover of 879 million euros.Large companies, which handle massive amounts of data and complex operations, as is the case with Semark, frequently choose to collaborate with specialized service providers to efficiently manage their IT infrastructure. High availability and reliability are essential in today's business environment, and specialized providers offer superior resiliency and redundancy. Semark turned to Telefónica Tech to manage its AWS infrastructure and deploy the Magento e-commerce solution quickly and efficiently, followed by optimizations to comply with AWS best practices.

Highlights of the success story

Deployment in two phases

In the first phase: implementation of AWS accounts, EC2 instances, BBDD in Aurora, Elastic Cache, Elastic Search and EFS; in the second: optimization with resources in multiple AZs, CloudFront CDN and Varnish.

Agility and Efficiency in the AWS Cloud

The adoption of AWS cloud solutions has boosted Semark's agility in deploying new platforms, offering a wide range of services that meet its needs and improve efficiency compared to on-premises infrastructures. The use of managed services has also reduced operational burden.

Managed support and professional services

Once the platform deployment is complete, we provide support through our managed service to fine-tune the AWS infrastructure, perform maintenance and monitor it through our team of certified AWS experts. We also offer professional services to design and implement cloud solutions that boost Semark's capacity and competitiveness.

Support from certified AWS experts

Thanks to this project, Semark has received support and advice from qualified professionals in the deployment and maintenance of their Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure. This has released them to focus on their business objectives and innovation, relying on us for support in design decisions, configuration and troubleshooting following the best practices of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

What others say about us

    "Thanks to AWS cloud solutions and Telefónica Tech's expertise, we have achieved greater agility in the deployment of new platforms, reducing the operational burden allowing us to focus on developing our business and innovation objectives. Telefónica Tech's expertise and support have been crucial to the success of the project."

    Jon Amayuelas, Director of IT and Systems, Semark