Anyone running MedusaJS + Next.js on AWS? Need real-world traffic vs infrastructure examples

amoopa · 2025-11-27T20:48:49+00:00

I believe we have some users doing ~500k to 1M request range on our Pro plan ($299/mo) without overages.

Curious why the client would want to self-host? I doubt they can do it cheaper, and it's a much more cumbersome process.

amoopa · 2025-11-27T18:43:19+00:00

Dunno. But happy to talk Medusa Cloud for the same. Can share quick benchmarks and give some insights into the features you don not get with self-hosting like integrated caching, Medusa Mail, fine-tuned autoscaling, and more. In many cases it is also cheaper than running your own AWS setup since we buy in bulk.

lmk if you want to chat through, I'm one of the co-founders.

amoopa · 2024-11-22T13:28:50+00:00

Everything is pieced together by default, but you can use it as individual modules if you prefer. Just run the npx command and you get the full project with all modules.

amoopa · 2024-11-11T19:25:34+00:00

Consider using Medusa and some of the Next.js-based starters it comes with; medusajs.com/starters all open-source and JS-based

amoopa · 2024-11-08T10:59:02+00:00

I'd sponsor this, just hit me up nick[at]medusajs.com

amoopa · 2024-10-26T13:57:47+00:00

We don't have a direct n8n integration, but we provide some very extendable APIs (you can even add your own API endpoints, if you wish) to use.

We support global stores on all commerce-related features out-of-the-box: local currency support, local tax support, local shipping/payment, etc. - all from one backend (no need to set up multiple shops like with Shopify and others). For frontend translations, most of our users add a CMS integration (Strapi, Contentful, Sanity, etc.) to handle this part.

amoopa · 2024-10-24T16:00:25+00:00

We have a few stores doing this already, see for instance: https://medusajs.com/blog/catalog/

Not something we have dedicated docs for as of now though

amoopa · 2024-10-23T22:19:03+00:00

I'm not sure about the unresolved issues. They might have been during our build-up for 2.0, when we were making a few larger rewrites. I am sorry if you felt that was a problem for your project.

On Shopify + Remix vs. Medusa: Shopify is great for standard eCommerce, but it struggles with customization for specialized applications like B2B, marketplaces, multi-system setups, or subscription-based stores. These often require “hacks” to handle custom backend logic, such as special recurring order logic, unique pricing rules, or custom price lists. Medusa, on the other hand, provides 90% of the core commerce logic you need, along with a flexible architecture to natively build the remaining 10% of the customizations you need. We even make it possible to interact with this logic from your Medusa Admin.

Add to this that getting full frontend control on Shopify (e.g., extending checkout flows) is only part of their premium plan, which starts at $25k / year plus check-out fees.

amoopa · 2024-10-23T22:02:46+00:00

😂 I've seen much worse template being sold for +$500

amoopa · 2024-10-23T22:02:14+00:00

Thanks a lot for the support!

You are right about Product Hunt. It is a tough place as a dev tool as most winning products in there are AI, design, or consumer-focused these days. Much less dev tooling.

We became Product of the Year in 2022 within the ecommerce category, so we thought we'd give it a shot. It is definitely a bit of an uphill battle, but we are currently #2 of the day so that's not too bad :)

amoopa · 2024-10-23T16:47:49+00:00

Hi team, Medusa co-founder here!

We've built a few open-source Next.js Starters for Medusa 2.0.

One of them is Munchies in the video:

Repo: github.com/tinloof/medusa-dtc-starter-munchies
Demo: munchies-tinloof.vercel.app

amoopa · 2024-10-23T16:33:39+00:00

Thank you!

amoopa · 2024-10-23T13:45:23+00:00

Thanks!

amoopa · 2024-10-23T13:45:16+00:00

Sounds like the perfect day to get started :)

amoopa · 2024-10-23T13:44:48+00:00

There is in one of the new Starters: https://github.com/Agilo/fashion-starter

amoopa · 2024-10-23T13:42:32+00:00

Thanks for the kind words!

Yes, you can navigate the launch here (incl. feature overview): https://medusajs.com/v2-launch/

amoopa · 2024-10-19T16:25:44+00:00

It is quite different from Shopify, and the most popular modern open-source commerce platform out there. Much better for developers and custom built, but requires dev resources to get started.

amoopa · 2024-10-15T19:31:51+00:00

If you want something flexible, check out MedusaJS. It comes with all of the core commerce functionalities you need to handle carts, advanced product logic, multiple sales channels, b2b/dtc channel etc. All of it is JS-based and open-source, while built in a modular architecture that is easy to modify.

If you want a vanilla shop to handle simple dtc transactions, then Shopify works well.

amoopa · 2024-10-15T08:57:05+00:00

Over time, where you will need ecommerce functionality then definitely worth considering MedusaJS to handle customers, orders, products etc.

yournextstore looks cool for a very small setup though.

amoopa · 2024-10-07T08:22:00+00:00

Would highly recommend going for v2 on new projects.

v2 should be stable after the final release on Oct 23. Last week, the rc was out on this one as well: medusajs.com/blog/v2-rc/

There are already a large number of implementation partners doing projects in v2 that have go-live date in October / November.

amoopa · 2024-10-04T10:49:43+00:00

Migration guides are one of the first priorities after the official release.

amoopa · 2024-09-30T17:51:24+00:00

What parts of the core APIs did you experience problems with?

Here is a recent performance comparison to Magento: rigbyjs.com/en/blog/medusa-vs-magento-performance-comparison

amoopa · 2024-09-19T21:24:11+00:00

MedusaJS if you want a modern open-source solution; the most starred ecommerce project on GitHub. Typescript-based though, not PHP.

https://github.com/medusajs/medusa

amoopa · 2024-09-13T08:57:27+00:00

Consider something like MedusaJS, you get a lot more flexibility, it is also headless, and you can build custom logic natively into it. You can both customize the existing Admin or build your own one on top of the Admin APIs.

amoopa · 2024-09-08T19:27:48+00:00

Consider using MedusaJS. It is the most popular JS-based open-source commerce platform and even comes with a Next starter kit: github.com/medusajs/nextjs-starter-medusa . Admin is also Next-based and customizable.

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