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Category: Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Figure 2. Amazon Payment Services’ new architecture using Amazon SQS, Amazon ECS, and Amazon SNS

Migrating a self-managed message broker to Amazon SQS

Amazon Payment Services is a payment service provider that operates across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) geographic regions. Our mission is to provide online businesses with an affordable and trusted payment experience. We provide a secure online payment gateway that is straightforward and safe to use. Amazon Payment Services has regional experts in payment […]

Figure 1. Automated form data extraction architecture

Automate your Data Extraction for Oil Well Data with Amazon Textract

Traditionally, many businesses archive physical formats of their business documents. These can be invoices, sales memos, purchase orders, vendor-related documents, and inventory documents. As more and more businesses are moving towards digitizing their business processes, it is becoming challenging to effectively manage these documents and perform business analytics on them. For example, in the Oil […]

New OL architecture with Amazon SQS

Increasing McGraw-Hill’s Application Throughput with Amazon SQS

This post was co-authored by Vikas Panghal, Principal Product Mgr – Tech, AWS and Nick Afshartous, Principal Data Engineer at McGraw-Hill McGraw-Hill’s Open Learning Solutions (OL) allow instructors to create online courses using content from various sources, including digital textbooks, instructor material, open educational resources (OER), national media, YouTube videos, and interactive simulations. The integrated […]

Figure 2. Modernized queuing architecture using Amazon SQS

Modernized Database Queuing using Amazon SQS and AWS Services

This blog post was last reviewed/updated August, 2022. The updated version shown below is based on working backwards from a customer need to ensure data consistency post migration, to a modernized microservice architecture. A queuing system is composed of producers and consumers. A producer enqueues messages (writes messages to a database) and a consumer dequeues […]

Figure 6. Using Step Functions as workflow state manager

Migrating a Database Workflow to Modernized AWS Workflow Services

The relational database is a critical resource in application architecture. Enterprise organizations often use relational database management systems (RDBMS) to provide embedded workflow state management. But this can present problems, such as inefficient use of data storage and compute resources, performance issues, and decreased agility. Add to this the responsibility of managing workflow states through […]

Figure 7. Fan out design pattern including secondary pipeline for deleting images

Get Started with Amazon S3 Event Driven Design Patterns

Event driven programs use events to initiate succeeding steps in a process. For example, the completion of an upload job may then initiate an image processing job. This allows developers to create complex architectures by using the principle of decoupling. Decoupling is preferable for many workflows, as it allows each component to perform its tasks […]

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Toyota Connected and AWS Design and Deliver Collision Assistance Application

This post was cowritten by Srikanth Kodali, Sr. IoT Data Architect at AWS, and Will Dombrowski, Sr. Data Engineer at Toyota Connected Toyota Connected North America (TC) is a technology/big data company that partners with Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor North America to develop products that aim to improve the driving experience for Toyota […]

Figure 1. On-premises and AWS queue integration for third-party services using AWS Lambda

Queue Integration with Third-party Services on AWS

Commercial off-the-shelf software and third-party services can present an integration challenge in event-driven workflows when they do not natively support AWS APIs. This is even more impactful when a workflow is subject to unpredicted usage spikes, and you want to increase decoupling and fault tolerance. Given the third-party nature of services, polling an Amazon Simple […]

Interior of KFC restaurant

The Technology Behind KFC’s Finger Lickin’ Good Success

This post was written by Jaime Hall of KFC At Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), our platform has constantly evolved over the past four years. Since the shift to bring all development in house, we’ve been making great progress. During this time, KFC has grown dramatically within the digital space. Underpinning it all, we aim to […]

Figure 1. Current Architecture with improved resiliency and standardized observability

Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In the last blog, Maximizing System Throughput, we talked about design patterns you can adopt to address immediate scaling challenges to provide a better customer experience. In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability […]