Supporting Cloud Migration for MUJI's Global Websites
Muji (Mujirushi Ryohin)
Applied Services: Amazon CloudFront, AWS Migration
Muji (Mujirushi Ryohin), the globally recognized Japanese retailer offering household and consumer goods with a philosophy of simplicity and quality, operates multilingual global websites serving customers across numerous countries. Classmethod designed and built a cloud architecture leveraging Amazon CloudFront — delivering fast, stable content worldwide while meeting MUJI's requirements for zero-downtime migration, simple architecture, and cost efficiency.
Migration Challenges
Key Requirements
- • Zero downtime during migration — continuous service for global customers
- • Simple, maintainable architecture for ongoing operations
- • Cost efficiency across multilingual global web properties
- • Global performance — fast content delivery to customers worldwide
Amazon CloudFront for Global Delivery
Amazon CloudFront accelerates distribution of MUJI's static and dynamic web content by caching it across worldwide edge locations and routing requests to the nearest location for optimal performance. URL-pattern-based request routing enables flexible content delivery strategies across MUJI's multilingual site architecture.
Global Edge Caching
Content cached at CloudFront edge locations worldwide for low-latency delivery
Reduced Origin Load
Edge caching dramatically reduces requests reaching origin servers
URL Pattern Routing
Flexible request routing across multilingual content structures
Cache Bypass Option
Content delivery without edge caching when real-time data is required
Results Achieved
- • Multilingual global websites migrated to AWS with zero downtime
- • Fast, stable content delivery to MUJI customers worldwide
- • Simple, maintainable architecture using CloudFront and AWS
- • Cost-efficient global content delivery through edge caching
This case study uses Amazon CloudFront and AWS Migration.
Classmethod migrates global retail websites to AWS CloudFront — delivering fast content to customers worldwide with zero-downtime migrations and simple, cost-efficient cloud architectures.