This Guidance demonstrates how restaurants can synchronize changes to their menus across all customer channels, including web, mobile, and physical locations. By implementing near real-time updates to prices and availability, restaurants can ensure their customers always have access to the current menu.

Architecture Diagram

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Well-Architected Pillars

The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you understand the pros and cons of the decisions you make when building systems in the cloud. The six pillars of the Framework allow you to learn architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems. Using the AWS Well-Architected Tool, available at no charge in the AWS Management Console, you can review your workloads against these best practices by answering a set of questions for each pillar.

The architecture diagram above is an example of a Solution created with Well-Architected best practices in mind. To be fully Well-Architected, you should follow as many Well-Architected best practices as possible.

  • AWS WAF protects the API’s from common web exploits such as SQL injection (SQLi) or cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The AWS CloudFormation script helps make frequent, small, and reversible changes to the environment, resulting in an agile platform. Billing and logging details are also captured, making it easier to do any subsequent exercises. Using Amazon CloudWatch Events, customers can respond to each breach of thresholds to ensure they do preventive controls.

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  • The core services are securely made available through API Gateway that leverages IAM and Cognito to provide authentication and authorization. Lambda uses identity-based security policies to connect to DynamoDB securely. Amazon SNS integrates with IAM so that customers can control which Amazon SNS actions a user can perform in their AWS account. DynamoDB protects user data at rest and in transit between Regions.

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  • The core menu management services run on Lambda, which scales seamlessly and with high reliability. DynamoDB also scales based on load.

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  • Resource provisioning and management is automated through serverless architecture including: Lambda, API Gateway, Amazon SNS, and DynamoDB.

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  • Monitoring expenditure and usage is done through the AWS Billing Console. The use of serverless compute, such as Lambda, ensures cost optimization, as services are billed on usage. Lambda costs are based on the number of transactions whose usage is governed by AWS Cost Explorer. DynamoDB can be provisioned for auto-scaling, which incurs costs proportional to the usage.

     

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  • Workloads are always scaled to the right-size with dynamic auto-scaling of serverless services like Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway. This ensures high utilization and maximizes the energy efficiency of the underlying instances, services, and its hardware.

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Implementation Resources

A detailed guide is provided to experiment and use within your AWS account. Each stage of building the Guidance, including deployment, usage, and cleanup, is examined to prepare it for deployment.

The sample code is a starting point. It is industry validated, prescriptive but not definitive, and a peek under the hood to help you begin.

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