Amazon

E Commerce

Amazon

Service-oriented platform powering global e-commerce and cloud services

Employees:1,500,000+

Revenue:$574B

Founded:1994

HQ:Seattle, WA

Ticker:AMZN

Key Metrics

Users300M+ customers

Requests100M+

Uptime99.99%

Latency<100ms

Prime Members200M+

Products350M+

AWS Regions33

Tech Stack

React

Java

DynamoDB

Aurora

AWS

CloudWatch

Kinesis

SageMaker

System Architecture

Service-Oriented Platform

Amazon E-Commerce Architecture

Two-Pizza Teams & Service Ownership

Client Applications

Amazon.com

React, Node.js

Mobile Apps

Native, React Native

Alexa

Voice AI

API Gateway

Load Balancing, Routing

Domain Services

Product Catalog

Java, DynamoDB

Shopping Cart

Java, ElastiCache

Order Service

Java, Aurora

Recommendations

ML, Personalize

Data & Messaging

DynamoDB

NoSQL

Aurora

RDBMS

Kinesis

Streaming

Key Components

DynamoDB

Fully managed NoSQL database providing single-digit millisecond performance

Proprietary

SSD storage

Multi-region

Kinesis

Real-time data streaming platform

Managed Kafka-like

Sharding

Serverless

Two-Pizza Teams

Organizational structure where each service is owned by a team small enough to be fed by two pizzas

Microservices

Service mesh

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Sources

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/https://github.com/aws https://ir.aboutamazon.com

Last updated: 2024-12-01