Cloud foundation

Cloud infrastructure

Google Cloud is not a hosting choice for Vishvakta. It is the operational backbone of the platform. Commerce at national scale needs predictable capacity, private networking, managed data services, and security at the edge. We standardised on GCP so engineering can focus on product velocity, not undifferentiated infrastructure.

Why Google Cloud is crucial for us

Built for India, active in both regions

Primary workloads run in Mumbai and Delhi at the same time. This is not a warm standby setup. Both regions carry live traffic, with health checked failover if either region degrades. The architecture targets 99.99966% availability (about two minutes of unplanned downtime per year), built for national scale commerce and compliance growth across India.

Security before scale

Global HTTPS load balancing, Cloud Armor WAF, private VPC paths to databases, and managed TLS. Security is embedded in the cloud layer, not bolted on later.

Managed services, faster delivery

Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, and Artifact Registry let small teams ship reliably. GitHub Actions builds and deploys directly into production GCP.

One cloud, one truth

The ecommerce platform, buyer and seller applications, backend microservices, payments, logistics orchestration, and data infrastructure all share one GCP foundation. There is no hybrid patchwork and no third party hosting. See platform build status for delivery progress across workstreams.

CDN and the global edge on the Vishvakta marketplace

Commerce at national scale cannot depend on a single origin in one city. On the Vishvakta marketplace, every buyer and seller session (browsing catalogues, loading product images, opening seller dashboards, and checking order status) reaches Google Cloud’s global edge first. Cloud CDN caches static and buyer facing assets at edge points close to users across India, so storefronts stay fast on mobile networks and peak traffic does not overwhelm origin compute in Mumbai and Delhi.

  • Faster discovery and checkout: product images, listing thumbnails, portal UI assets, and PWA resources are served from the nearest edge node, which cuts time to first paint when buyers compare items and sellers manage inventory.
  • Origin stays for commerce logic: cached assets stay at the edge; backends in Mumbai and Delhi (both active) handle search, cart, payments, and fulfilment APIs, so the same images and scripts are not delivered from origin on every page view.
  • Security and trust at the edge: TLS terminates close to users; Cloud Armor filters abuse and bot traffic before it reaches the platform. Sensitive API calls still travel over encrypted, mutually authenticated paths to backend services.
  • Peak events without degradation: festival sales, campaign launches, and regional traffic spikes are absorbed at the edge so the marketplace stays responsive when conversion matters most.

Production infrastructure

Built and deployed on Google Cloud

Vishvakta is built entirely on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Every layer of the platform, including the ecommerce frontend, buyer and seller applications, backend microservices, databases, networking, and security, runs on GCP infrastructure across active regions in Mumbai and Delhi. GCP is not a hosting choice; it is the core of how Vishvakta is engineered.

Production compute, managed databases, private VPC networking, Cloud Armor edge protection, and CDN delivery all run on managed GCP services. The architecture is designed for the scale, reliability, and proximity Indian commerce demands, not assembled from ad hoc servers.

  • Cloud Load Balancing + CDNGlobal HTTPS front door and edge caching for the Vishvakta marketplace
  • Cloud ArmorWeb application firewall and rate protection
  • Cloud RunServerless containers in Mumbai and Delhi for web and API
  • Cloud SQLManaged PostgreSQL for platform and investor data
  • Artifact RegistryContainer images for automated deploys
  • Cloud DNSAuthoritative DNS for vishvakta.com and vishvakta.in

Active regions: Mumbai and Delhi · 99.99966% availability target · CDN edge and private VPC to Cloud SQL · Deployed via GitHub Actions

High level view

Platform architecture

Interactive diagram of edge, dual region compute, data, platform services, and integrations. Click any component for a short description.

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