Mercado Libre on AWS
Mercado Libre on AWS Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mercado Libre is Latin America's leading e-commerce technology company and the region's largest online commerce and fintech ecosystem. Through its integrated platforms MercadoLibre.com and MercadoPago.com, the company provides comprehensive solutions for e-commerce, payments, and financial services across 18 Latin American countries, serving 100 million unique active buyers. The company's infrastructure leverages advanced Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies, including Amazon EKS for container orchestration and Amazon DynamoDB for databases among the main services used. Operating at massive scale, Mercado Libre manages over 10,000 daily deployments across more than 120,000 Amazon EC2 instances, handling over 900 million requests per minute. The company deploys AWS Outposts in their distribution centers to support both mission-critical logistics operations and CCTV security systems, bringing AWS computing power closer to their operations and enabling faster deliveries and enhanced security monitoring. The scalability and performance provided by AWS enables Mercado Libre to deliver optimal customer experiences during peak shopping periods while addressing the unique cultural and geographic challenges of operating across Latin America. In 2024, the company processed over $196.7 billion in total payment volume, executed more than 11 billion payment transactions, and achieved $20.8 billion in net revenues and financial income, demonstrating its continued growth and market leadership in the region.
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Continuous Innovation
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Generative AI and Machine Learning
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Migration
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Cost Optimization
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Security Compliance
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Continuous Innovation
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2024
AWS re:Invent 2024: How Mercado Libre Engineers Achieve a NoOps Experience with Amazon EKS
This session explores how Amazon EKS and platform engineering can empower developers and drive scalability. Explore the benefits of Amazon EKS and consider platform engineering best practices for building robust internal developer platforms (IDPs). To illustrate these principles, this session showcases a case study of how Mercado Libre used Amazon EKS and platform engineering to power their scalable microservices platform, Fury. Learn how you can leverage these technologies to boost developer productivity, streamline operations, and enable scalable application architectures.
2023Platform and Observability Teams at Mercado Libre
In this episode, the AWS Podcast LATAM interviews Guille Narducci (Senior Director, Foundations) and Juan Pi (Senior Manager, Foundations) from the Cloud & Platforms team at Mercado Libre. During the episode, the guests shared how Mercado Libre's hyper-growth journey, the largest e-commerce and financial services ecosystem in Latin America, drove the formation of platform and observability teams. Today, they are responsible for managing over 10,000 daily deployments, using 120,000+ EC2 instances that support more than 900 million requests per minute.
2023Mercado Livre Becomes the First Company to Run Industrial Automation Workloads on AWS Outposts in Latin America
Mercado Livre, the largest e-commerce ecosystem in Latin America, has more than 100 million active users who buy and sell products through its platform. With the challenge of automating latency-sensitive applications in your distribution centers, through the use of AWS Outposts, you can execute industrial automation in the cloud.
2020AWS Executive Insights Interview with Mercado Libre’s CISO
Attracting and retaining security talent is critical to Mercado Libre’s success. Discover how it uses the cloud to enforce compliance and governance and create a security culture across all of Mercado Libre's business units—ranging from using gamification to train employees to making it part of the company's C-Suite agenda. Hear directly from Mercado Libre’s chief information security officer (CISO), Jorge O’Higgins.
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Generative AI and Machine Learning
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2025
Mercado Libre Reshapes Retail Media with AWS Partner Mutt Data and Stability AI in Amazon Bedrock
Mercado Libre has partnered with AWS Partner Mutt Data to address the challenge of producing high-performing banner ads with generative artificial intelligence (generative AI), for dozens of thousands of smaller sellers. Mercado Libre developed GenAds, an innovative solution that automates the creation of compelling product images, streamlining the process for sellers and enhancing their market presence with image-generating AI. Through GenAds, Mercado Libre helped small sellers through image generation for advertising, enabling sellers of all sizes to attract customers, increase click-through rates (CTR) by an average of 25%, and boost sales effectively.
2024How Mercado Livre Improves Payment Experience with AWS IoT Core
Camilo Varela, IT Manager at Mercado Libre, tells us how his team has improved the payment experience for MercadoPago users, thanks to the integration of AWS IoT Core.
Facing the challenge of high transactional volume, the implemented solution has reduced payment processing time from 8 seconds to less than 1 second. This has significantly improved efficiency and customer satisfaction, allowing for a faster and more dynamic flow of payments, ensuring that the strategic alliance between Mercado Libre and AWS continues to promote innovative technological solutions that guarantee high availability and low latency.2024Revolution or Evolution: Generative AI's Role in Transforming Online Retail
Check out one of AWS's Big Ideas sessions from NRF 2024: Retail's Big Show. Explore the exciting intersection of AI and online retail. By looking into Mercado Libre’s innovative use of AI to reshape online retail dynamics over the last decade, this talk aims to mark the difference between previous uses of AI and what new opportunities are presented by generative AI. Is generative AI a revolutionary force set to redefine ecommerce, or is it an evolutionary development augmenting existing structures? In this session, learn about the real-world applications, opportunities, and challenges of AI based on Mercado Libre’s practical experiences and experimentation.
2021Mercado Libre Achieves Accurate, Automatic Translations at Scale Using Amazon Translate
Mercado Libre's online marketplaces feature more than 5,000 business sellers from outside Latin America, who mostly speak English. Because product information arrives in English, Mercado Libre needed a fast and scalable content localization solution for accurately translating and adapting seller content for its multicultural, Spanish, and Portuguese speaking customers. Mercado Libre translates millions of product titles, descriptions, and interactions efficiently and accurately in near real time using Amazon Translate—a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. This increases speed to market, improves customer engagement, and drives sales.
2020Mercado Libre Implements Its ML Strategy with AWS
Mercado Libre experts explain how AWS solutions, such as Amazon SageMaker—a service that helps data scientists and developers prepare, build, train, and deploy high-quality ML models quickly—help the company implement an ML strategy that adds value to its services and improves the user experience for millions.
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Migration
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2023
re:Invent Breakout Session with Mercado Libre
In this session, explore the value story of AWS with examples of transformational business value AWS customers have achieved and the steps they took to achieve it. Learn about research showing that the benefits of AWS adoption can surpass IT cost savings, keeping in mind that TCO is a frequently-cited driver of migrations. Learn how successful companies think about measurable business value in the cloud from migration to modernization, and what you can do to maximize the value of your cloud investments.
2023Mercado Libre has Improved Time to Market with AWS Cloud Services
In this video, Christian Martini, Senior IT Governance Manager, and Mauricio Ferrari, FinOps and Cloud Economics Manager at Mercado Libre, describe the transition to the AWS cloud. The managers explain why they selected AWS at the same time that they developed an internal platform that helps them to exploit AWS services in greater depth, becoming more efficient, growing more rapidly and meeting the needs of their customers in an ever better way.
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2023AWS Helps Mercado Livre Process More Than 40 Purchases per Second in 18 Countries
Mercado Livre registered 40 purchases per second in the first quarter of 2023, with 53% of shipments made within 24 hours. Data is fundamental to building the ecosystem and promoting synergy between sellers and buyers. In this video, Fernando Yunes, senior vice president of e-commerce and country lead of Mercado Livre Brasil, and Thiago Oliveira, director of software engineering for cloud and platforms, talk about the strategy and technological evolution that underpinned the company's entire growth.
2021Migrating 5,000 Databases to Amazon DynamoDB Improves Reliability and Helps Mercado Libre Scale Its Business
As part of the company’s overhaul, a Mercado Libre team of six engineers migrated 5,000 databases to Amazon DynamoDB—a fast, flexible NoSQL database service delivering single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Using the new solution, the company saved developer time, improved reliability, and reduced costs.
With the reliability of Amazon DynamoDB, we can avoid the cost of downtime.”
Oscar Mullin
Director of IT and Head of Core Services, Site Reliability Engineering, and Database Administration, Mercado Libre -
Cost Optimization
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2022
Manage and Control your AWS Costs
Sebastian Barrios, vice president of technology at Mercado Libre, deep dives into how the organization manages costs in the cloud. Key to this is the machine learning algorithms that determine the capacity its teams need in different regions. By automatically scaling up and down according to demand—and taking advantage of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances—Mercado Libre can control costs and optimize its entire operations across Latin America.
2019Simple Change Cuts Mercado Libre Compute Costs 31% Without Hurting Performance
Mercado Libre uses Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, which offer unused AWS compute capacity at a significantly lower cost than other Amazon EC2 instance types. This led Mercado Libre to incorporate Amazon EC2 Spot Instances into its hybrid architecture. The first week, it shifted 30 percent of its Reserved Instances to Spot Instances. In the first month, it saved 20 percent by moving to Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, with no impact on developer experience or business trajectory. The switch lowered Mercado Libre’s overall monthly cloud costs by 31 percent while maintaining performance.
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Security Compliance
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2024
AWS re:Inforce | AWS Well-Architected for network security, featuring Mercado Libre
Join this essential session at AWS re:Inforce 2024 where AWS solution architects Alpana Goolab and Ash, alongside Mercado Libre's Cloud Security Technical Lead Kevin Goldsmit, reveal how AWS Well-Architected Framework drives network security excellence at scale. Through an in-depth exploration of Mercado Libre's journey - Latin America's largest e-commerce platform operating across 18 countries with over 144 million active users - discover how they architected a sophisticated multi-environment security solution handling 300 terabytes of daily traffic across 30,000 microservices.
About Mercado Libre
Mercado Libre is a Latin American technology company that offers ecommerce solutions so that individuals and companies can buy, sell, pay, advertise, and ship products through the internet. Mercado Libre uses a suite of AWS solutions that drives ecommerce and supports the rapid growth of its Mercado Pago digital payment platform and Mercado Crédito credit line.
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