Maisons du Monde builds a foundation for the future in the cloud

Google Cloud Results

Runs 100% of the platform on Google Cloud , eliminating on-premises data centers
Migrated 300 VMs to GCVE and 1,000 Kubernetes workloads overnight
Reduced Oracle database costs by 30% on Google Cloud
Lowered infrastructure costs by 20% by migrating to Google Compute Engine

Maisons du Monde successfully transforms its entire business by using Google Cloud services, including Google Cloud VMware Engine, to modernize its infrastructure and achieve significant cost savings.

Living room furniture from Maisons du Monde

Bringing cloud scalability to ecommerce experiences

We decided on a lift-transform-optimize strategy to transform our on-premises environment to a truly cloud-native one. GCVE was the perfect stepping stone that helped us migrate quickly without interrupting business.

Hocine Touarigt

Infrastructure Project Manager, Maisons du Monde

Maisons du Monde , a leading European furniture and home decor retailer, saw ecommerce become a significant sales driver. To remain competitive, they needed more robust IT infrastructure that could manage products, supply chains, and customer demand at scale.

As their existing IT struggled to keep pace, Maisons du Monde set out on a multi-year modernization effort with Google Cloud to improve scalability, cost-efficiency, and agility.

"We chose Google Cloud because we not only trust its services, but we appreciate how teams are continuously improving services to provide more value to customers," says Michaël Lopez, Platform and Cloud Architecture Manager at Maisons du Monde.

Maisons du Monde originally turned to Google Cloud for BigQuery in 2017, as it required a solution to centralize and analyze the vast amount of sales and customer data. With its valuable data in BigQuery, Maisons du Monde connected an existing Google Analytics instance to better understand what its international customer base wants.

This early win showcased the value of growing with Google Cloud, laying the groundwork for a much more strategic partnership as the company pivoted to improving its ecommerce infrastructure in 2018.

Furthermore, Maisons du Monde embraced a containerization strategy with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to deliver a smoother developer experience and faster time-to-market through continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines in 2020. Auto-scaling in GKE efficiently supports fluctuating online traffic loads.

GKE proved critical for the ecommerce platform when Maisons du Monde launched a new marketplace and re-platformed checkout on a headless Magento 2 architecture. GKE delivered the scalability and resilience needed to containerize and operate this complex, mission-critical application without interrupting services.

Shifting into the cloud with Google Cloud VMware Engine

Having seen success with GKE in its ecommerce environment, Maisons du Monde decided to fully commit to a cloud transition. The goal was to migrate all core workloads to cloud-native compute and shut down on-premises data centers. It was a big challenge to rapidly migrate a sprawling landscape of legacy applications, VMware workloads, and critical Oracle databases with speed and efficiency, all without disrupting the business.

"A traditional lift-and-shift into the cloud usually isn't cost-effective long-term, as you miss out on the benefits of cloud-native optimization," says Michaël. "But we also didn't want the disruption of a long cloud migration and the costly upkeep of on-premises data centers."

Since July 2025, we have 100% of our platform on Google Cloud. Google Cloud is more than just a provider. They're a partner that's helping us achieve our goals of delivering better service for teams and customers.

Pascal Nourry

IT Operations Director, Maisons du Monde

As Maisons du Monde's existing on-premises infrastructure was deeply rooted in VMware, Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) was the perfect solution for a swift transition. The retailer moved its on-premises VMware cluster to GCVE overnight with a migration that included 300 virtual machines (VM), 20 TB of Oracle databases, and over 1,000 Kubernetes workloads.

Today, the Oracle databases have been migrated to Google Cloud's Bare Metal Solution (BMS). The non-production instances and a standby instance were migrated to Google Compute Engine following the new partnership between Oracle and Google Cloud. Thanks to this strategy, Maisons du Monde has reduced its Oracle infrastructure costs by 30%.

Reducing costs, improving performance

With all workloads in GCVE, Maisons du Monde shut down its on-premises data centers that had supported core business applications. The infrastructure team concentrated on gradually optimizing cloud workloads and services, moving them to a cloud-native environment with Google Compute Engine and GKE.

Google Compute Engine provides top reliability for mission-critical VMs as well as excellent scalability. The built-in flexibility allows Maisons du Monde to not only add VMs to handle peak load, but also power down non-production environments during evenings and weekends when they're not needed. This saved Maisons du Monde 20% of its monthly costs.

Working with Google Cloud managed services also reduces the load on internal infrastructure teams. New services and resources can be added quickly, helping development teams accelerate time to market. With infrastructure teams spending less time on daily tasks and managing the environment, they also have more time to focus on the bigger cloud migration and optimization initiative.

Today, all workloads benefit from cloud-native performance and scalability in Compute Engine. The next focus is services, with plans to move applications to GKE and migrate essential Oracle databases to Compute Engine. Thanks to the partnership between Oracle and Google Cloud, Maisons du Monde has already migrated non-production and standby instances of Oracle to Compute Engine, achieving a 30% reduction in costs.

Maisons du Monde also devoted resources to a long-awaited decommissioning of ecommerce data centers. The company completed a rapid, three-month project in July 2025 to tackle this final migration through a mix of building new Compute Engine instances from scratch and utilizing the "Migrate to Virtual Machines" service to handle migration of more complex machines in minutes. After the migration was complete, Maisons du Monde achieved 75% cost savings for its infrastructure which hosted the on-premises workloads.

Maisons du Monde is the leading French brand that is inspiring, accessible, and sustainable in the European home furnishings and decoration market. With 7 million customers, a marketplace, and a turnkey 3D interior design service, the brand offers a unique and highly efficient omnichannel model built around multi-style home universes, inspired by travel and craftsmanship from around the world. Committed to a sustainable and responsible path, the brand is also involved in social causes close to its heart. This commitment was further strengthened in 2023 with the launch of Second Chance, an offer dedicated to second-hand products.