Explore Amazon’s product technology framework and technology architecture
Since its establishment, the Amazon platform has gradually evolved from a small online shopping website to the world’s largest e-commerce platform. An important reason why it is deeply trusted by customers is its self-built technical architecture framework. This article will explore Amazon’s technical framework and its evolution in detail, revealing the design concepts and implementation details behind it.
Amazon currently has more than 50 million active consumer accounts and partners with more than 1 million retailers around the world. The number of services required to build a single web page is approximately 150, which fully demonstrates the complexity and multi-layered nature of the technical framework established by Amazon. With the development of the platform, the technical framework has undergone a huge transformation from a single structure to today’s distributed and decentralized structure, with the ultimate goal of providing consumers with a better service experience.
Amazon invests a lot of energy in the construction of back-end databases, which support the storage of huge product data, sales data, customer data, order data, etc. When these data gradually reached saturation, Amazon split the backend database into multiple different parts, and each part created its own service interface to adapt to its diverse technical framework needs. This design enables different service systems to operate independently and efficiently.
With the development of the technical framework, Amazon’s backend database has gradually transformed into a shared resource. Although the current data architecture is loose and adding additional operating systems is difficult, this service technology is still built around performance and functionality. This provides sellers with a unique performance structure system that allows them to quickly and independently complete diverse functional requirements.
At present, Amazon’s technical architecture has formed hundreds of service systems and constitutes a complete application service framework. This framework not only provides support for the platform’s vast functional system, but also ensures the smooth progress of daily activities between sellers and customers, making Amazon stand out in the e-commerce industry. Through accurate data analysis and product recommendations, Amazon can continue to improve consumers’ shopping experience and further consolidate its market leadership.