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Case Study 19 min read

How we built a serverless marketplace for 13p a month

Most marketplace platforms cost thousands a month to run. Ours costs thirteen pence. Not thirteen pounds - thirteen pence. The kind of money you find between sofa cushions.

This is the story of how we built a fully automated digital marketplace on AWS - and why the architecture decisions behind it might change how you think about selling anything online.

The architecture

Marketplace architecture showing the flow from customer browser through CloudFront, Stripe, EventBridge, Lambda, to SES and S3

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