retail

For a mid-market retailer (~2.4M SKUs, checkout p95 1.9s → 420ms), DynamoDB cart + Step Functions checkout + conditional inventory cuts held 2.1k checkout RPS — after a cache-as-inventory mistake oversold 380 units in 12 minutes.

For a specialty retailer (~380 stores, 2.4M loyalty members), S3 Tables Iceberg silver plus Kinesis cart events cut dashboard refresh from 26 hours to 22 minutes — conversion reporting error dropped from 11% to 2%.

Amazon SES is the most cost-effective email infrastructure for high-volume retail sending — but inbox placement requires dedicated IPs, proper authentication, and automated bounce handling. Here is how to do it right.

AWS Retail Competency validates consulting partners for verified retail delivery. Here is what the program means, what to look beyond the badge, and how to evaluate AWS partners for your retail workloads.