Dedicated development environment now available for AI Commerce production stores

AI Commerce now supports tenant-specific development environments for e-commerce platforms in production. This means that each customer can request a separate development environment, which is a replica of the production environment – featuring the same components but with separate credentials and services. The development environment allows testing of new features and integrations without risking production stability.

The environment is available as dev.kauppa.fi or dev.kauppa.aicommerce.fi, with a small monthly fee charged based on the environment’s scale and integrations. The development environment utilizes its own stages, distribution, and database, with all components – such as API Gateway, CloudFront, S3, Lambda, and Redis – being isolated from production.

Developers can use the dev branch on GitHub named kauppasi-dev, and the environment supports the same IAM permissions as production. Regarding images, the development environment leverages the production S3 bucket, reducing unnecessary duplication. Please note that AI Commerce does not back up development environments – this responsibility rests with the developer.

Setting up the development environment is initiated upon request, and management can be performed either from the admin panel or via the GitHub branch. Data is not automatically transferred from production – any necessary copies of product information must be made manually.

This new functionality provides a safe and controlled way to develop and test new features before moving to production – without compromising the stability of the production environment.