- Triggered automatically based on real-time CPU performance metrics
- No alerts or human intervention required
- Minimum of two web nodes, deployed across separate AWS Availability Zones for optimal resilience
- Monitored and adjusted accordingly if scaling is frequently triggered
- Zero downtime
Enterprise-Grade Scaling with K-Hosting
K-Hosting delivers enterprise-grade scaling – blending intelligent automation, predictive planning and AWS-native architecture to ensure consistent performance, resilience and cost control at every stage of growth.
Unrestricted, enterprise-grade scaling with no contractual or architectural limitations
Supports vertical and horizontal scaling across application, database and storage layers
Built on a mature, multi-layered AWS-native architecture for Magento & Adobe Commerce
Engineered for consistent performance, resilience, & cost control at every stage of growth
Four Scaling Categories.
One Adaptive Platform.
High performance scaling must adapt to real-world operational demands. True cloud hosting is about paying for the resources you need, when you need them. Increase capacity as demand grows, then release it when demand subsides – paying only for the resources you use.
K-Hosting delivers four distinct scaling categories, each aligned to a specific operational scenario, ensuring your platform remains stable and responsive under any condition.
Designed for predictable traffic patterns, including weekly or daily peaks and known marketing or trading cycles:
- Proactive, automated capacity adjustment ahead of anticipated traffic increases
- Scaled back once demand normalises to optimise cost
- Configured and reviewed as part of standard operations
Purpose-built for high-impact events such as promotions and product launches:
- Proactively deployed ahead of known events
- Supported by diligent, data-driven capacity planning
- Fully monitored, with collaboration at every step
- Scaled back post-event based on mutual agreement
- Post-event analysis data used to update Scaling Profile
Because Akoova operates as your Technical Operations Team, planned scaling doesn’t need days of lead time.
We pre-define a scaling profile for each type of event – specific to your site and refined over time – so that there’s no reinventing the wheel each time. It’s standardised, error-proof and quick to roll out. It establishes a defined operating model for your marketing and operations teams in requesting and deploying planned scaling. An hour’s notice before an event is plenty; for everything else, auto-scaling handles it.
In live incidents, scaling is used to protect platform stability while root cause analysis is performed:
- Temporary scaling deployed during incident investigation
- Site stability remains the priority at all times
- Clients kept informed throughout via transparent collaboration
Unrestricted Scaling with Complete Cost Transparency
Akoova places no contractual or artificial constraints on scaling. Infrastructure expands seamlessly in line with demand, ensuring performance holds up under load.
There are no additional charges applied to your K-Fee – costs are driven solely by AWS consumption, with complete transparency and control.
Rest assured every infrastructure is right-scaled, as Akoova has no commercial incentive to have clients overscaled or committed to infrastructure spend they don’t need.
Built-in AWS cost controls include:
- Pre-agreed auto-scaling caps to prevent uncontrolled spend
- AWS budget alerts and monitoring
- Ongoing review of scaling behaviour
The right layer, the right way. The four modes above are about when we scale. Underneath, they all draw on one toolkit: scaling the right layer — application, database, cache, search and storage — in the right direction.
Vertical means resizing a node up or down; Horizontal means adding or removing nodes.
The maturity isn’t a single autoscaling switch; it’s applying the right direction at the right layer for the situation in front of us. Horizontal scaling applies to web servers and to database reads (read replicas); writes scale vertically, on Aurora’s single writer.
A word of caution when you’re comparing providers: “cloud” and “Kubernetes” are sometimes used to dress up what is really fixed, dedicated infrastructure.
Kubernetes running on a pre-paid, always-on cluster can look like advanced cloud architecture, but if the capacity is fixed and paid for, whether you use it or not, then “scaling” is just scheduling onto resources you’ve already bought. You’re still paying full price through every quiet period.
Genuine elastic cloud flexes both capacity and cost with demand: you scale down as well as up, and pay only for what you actually use.
AWS Aurora: High-Performance Scaling & Storage Architecture
K-Hosting’s production database runs on Amazon Aurora MySQL (provisioned), delivering high-performance, scalable architecture for Magento and Adobe Commerce – and supporting both Vertical Scaling and Horizontal Scaling.
Vertical Scaling
Seamless Capacity Adjustment for Predictable Growth
- The Primary Instance can be resized to adjust CPU, memory and network capacity as required
- Ideal for accommodating predictable growth
- Executed during scheduled maintenance windows or low-traffic periods
- Minimal disruption, typically under one minute
Horizontal Scaling
Distributed Read Capacity for High Performance at Scale
Where a sudden spike bites depends on the site but the database read layer is a common bottleneck – and the hardest to scale. Web servers scale out readily; scaling database reads horizontally, on demand, is the part most providers can’t do, and often where a surge is survived or lost.
K-Hosting leverages AWS Aurora to deliver seamless horizontal scaling through the addition of read replicas,
- Database load is distributed across multiple replica nodes
- Prevents the Primary Instance from becoming a bottleneck
- Scales up to 15 Aurora Read Replicas across multiple Availability Zones
- New replicas provisioned in under 5 minutes, with zero downtime
Storage
Shared File Storage That Automatically Scales with Demand
- Amazon EFS shared storage scales automatically as file access increases
- Web server disk capacity can be increased with no service disruption
- Storage exhaustion – a common cause of outages in traditional environments – is engineered out of the Akoova platform
- Note: Magento application code is deployed on local SSD storage, sitting directly on the server for rapid access.
Cache & Search
Scaled and Separated as Needed
- The cache layer (ElastiCache / Redis) and search (OpenSearch) are resized in the same controlled way, without downtime
- Redis can also be split across two instances: one for user sessions, one for the Magento cache, so the two workloads never contend for the same resource
Enterprise Scaling, Extended to Magento Open Source
Adobe Commerce supports read/write traffic separation out of the box, at the application level – but it only pays off if the database underneath has read replicas to send the reads to. On most hosting setups it doesn’t, so the feature sits idle.
K-Hosting unlocks this capability for Adobe Commerce merchants by providing the read-replica infrastructure behind it: Aurora’s read-replica topology gives those reads somewhere to go.
We bring the same capability to Magento Open Source, which has no native read/write separation, through open-source modules such as this read/write splitter, with reads routed to replicas, writes kept on the master, and automatic fallback if a replica drops..
High availability is built into Aurora itself: your data is continuously replicated across multiple Availability Zones on a distributed, self-healing storage layer. If the primary instance fails, Aurora promotes a replica automatically, often within seconds.
And because Aurora runs a single writer over shared storage, rather than a Galera-style synchronous multi-master cluster (where every write must be certified across all nodes before it commits), your writes avoid that cross-node penalty and the write latency that slows busy stores on multi-master backends.
Single-Tenant Architecture & Data Portability
Each client is provisioned within a dedicated, single-tenant AWS account. This delivers:
Strong security isolation
Full cost transparency (itemised AWS usage visible to the client)
Governance via AWS Control Tower
K-Hosting uses exclusively AWS-native services (including Aurora MySQL, Amazon EFS, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch). This ensures full data portability:
No proprietary database formatsNo vendor-specific storage layersNo platform lock-in
Our value lies not in individual AWS components but in the automation, orchestration and operational expertise that underpin them. All combined with deep knowledge of Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce.
K-Hosting’s AWS-native architecture ensures our clients continually benefit from AWS innovation, including the latest Aurora database releases and next-generation processor architectures.
If you would like to learn more about how Akoova’s
K-Hosting can support your brand’s growth, let’s have an exploratory conversation.
Reach out today to schedule a call.
“Akoova has given us confidence with our scalability that we didn’t have before we partnered with them. They offer invaluable support to our technical team that allows us to focus on innovation.”
Marni Dasanjh
Head of Social Commerce, Fred Perry
