advanced~3.5h
Design an E-Commerce Platform on AWS
A worked system-design example for a full e-commerce platform on AWS — product catalog, cart, checkout, inventory, and order processing, tying together nearly every service category covered elsewhere in this course.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Map each major e-commerce component (catalog, cart, checkout, inventory, orders) to an appropriate AWS service
- •Explain why inventory decrement needs strong consistency while product browsing doesn't
- •Design the checkout flow to handle payment processing failures gracefully
- •Identify where asynchronous, event-driven processing fits versus where synchronous consistency is required
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