Malatrading - A Malaysia-based internet company focused on cross-border e-commerce platform development and operations
Intelligent Archiving and Resilient Storage Solutions on AWS for E-Commerce
Transforming data archiving and compliance management for cross-border e-commerce operations across Southeast Asia
Customer Background
Malatrading
Malatrading, a Malaysia-based cross-border e-commerce provider, faced growing demands to efficiently archive large volumes of historical order, logistics, and user data. To address this, the company adopted Druva, a cloud-native data protection solution on AWS, to automate backup and long-term archival to Amazon S3 and Glacier. This approach ensures regulatory compliance (e.g., PDPA, GDPR), improves data accessibility for audits and analytics, and significantly reduces storage and operational overhead—supporting Malatrading's continued growth across Southeast Asia and global markets.
Customer Challenges
Malatrading faced critical challenges in data management, compliance, and operational efficiency that hindered their ability to scale globally.
High Storage Costs and Lifecycle Management Limitations
On Alibaba Cloud, Malatrading faced rising storage costs due to limited control over data lifecycle policies in services like OSS and EMR. Historical transaction, user, and operational data accumulated rapidly, but lacked automated tiering and archiving, leading to overprovisioned hot storage and high long-term retention costs.
Compliance and Cross-Border Data Retention Risks
As Malatrading expands globally, it must meet evolving data protection standards such as PDPA and GDPR. However, its legacy cloud lacked granular controls for audit trails, long-term archiving, and region-specific data residency—posing challenges for regulatory compliance and secure historical data access.
Operational Inefficiencies and Limited Archive Visibility
The absence of a centralized archive strategy created operational overhead in managing backups across disparate systems. Manual snapshotting, fragmented log storage, and inconsistent retention policies increased the risk of data loss and complicated retrieval during audits or business analysis.
AWS Solutions
Intelligent archiving and resilient storage solutions powered by AWS cloud services and Druva data protection platform.
Comprehensive Archive-Centric Storage Architecture
To address long-term data retention and compliance needs, Malatrading has built an archive-centric storage architecture on AWS. Leveraging Druva and Amazon S3, historical transaction records, logs, and analytical data are automatically archived from primary systems into cost-effective, durable storage tiers such as S3 Glacier. Druva's policy-driven orchestration ensures backup consistency and retention alignment across workloads, while enabling rapid search and recovery when needed. Integrated with S3 lifecycle policies, the solution automates cold data tiering and reduces archive storage costs by over 50%. This approach provides Malatrading with centralized archive visibility, simplified compliance (e.g., PDPA, GDPR), and long-term resilience—supporting its global e-commerce operations with secure and scalable data preservation.
Malatrading AWS Architecture
Benefits to Customers
The AWS-powered archiving solution delivered significant improvements in reliability, cost efficiency, and compliance management for Malatrading's e-commerce operations.
Reliable and Automated Archiving for Business Continuity
With AWS Storage Gateway, DMS, and MongoShake, Malatrading achieves over 99.9% data replication success rate, ensuring that application data, logs, and databases are continuously and accurately archived to Amazon S3. This minimizes data loss risk during peak events and enables fast, reliable recovery without manual intervention.
Cost-Efficient Long-Term Data Retention
Using S3 lifecycle policies and Glacier tiering, Malatrading reduces cold data storage costs by over 30%. Automated archival of infrequently accessed data eliminates the need for overprovisioned hot storage, optimizing resource usage while meeting retention requirements.
Improved Compliance and Centralized Visibility
By integrating Druva, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail, Malatrading gains unified monitoring and auditability across all archived data. This ensures traceable operations, supports PDPA and GDPR compliance, and simplifies audit preparation with centralized backup and archive management.