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Design Amazon's Order Management System — cross-service consistency at massive scale.

The multi-service saga problem at Amazon's scale: how an order touching payment, inventory, fulfillment, and notification services stays consistent when any one of those services can fail mid-flow, how the system handles an item going out of stock AFTER payment is already taken, and how order state is tracked reliably across the entire lifecycle.

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Design Amazon's Order Management System — cross-service consistency at massive scale.

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