AWS-based ecommerce site architecture-Checkout Service

Build secure and highly available checkout services and business extensions for e-commerce sites with AWS. There are a number of steps involved in managing the checkout process and must coordinate the work. Some of these steps, such as credit card transactions, should have specific regulatory requirements. Other parts of the process involve manual operations, such as picking, packing and transporting items from the warehouse.

customers want their personal information, such as their purchase history and their credit card information, to be managed through secure infrastructure and applications. AWS has secured multiple security certifications related to e-commerce business,

includes the payment card industry (PCI) data Security Standard (DSS). With tools from AWS, you can build a management process from purchase to order to completion of such a secure settlement service.

1. E-commerce web front-end redirect customer request to SSL-encrypted checkout application to authenticate the customer and perform the purchase.

2. Deploy the Checkout app through AWS Elastic Beanstalk , use amazonsimple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) to validate customer information, and trigger a new order process.

3. Using swfdeciders and SWF Workers, amazonswf coordinates all the order processes.

4. SWF decider implements the logic of the process. It runs on the amazonelastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance of a private subnet and is isolated from the public network.

5. SWF Workers is also deployed on the AmazonEC2 group of a private subnet, which is also part of the Auto scaling Group and can be scaled on demand. SWF Workers manages the various parts of the checkout pipeline, such as order verification, reservations, credit card payments, e-mails triggering order delivery and delivery confirmations.

6. In order to integrate the selection, packaging and shipping steps into the overall order workflow, SWF Workers can also be implemented on mobile devices, such as tablets and smartphones.

7. Amazon simple Emailservice (Amazon SES) is used to send trading emails to customers, such as orders and delivery confirmations.

8. In order to provide high availability, the user and order databases are redundantly hosted on amazonrelational database Service (Amazon RDS) deployed in a multi-AZ, with private subnets isolated from the public network.

AWS-based ecommerce site architecture-Checkout Service