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Guidance for Automated Language Translations on AWS

Overview

This Guidance helps sellers perform content localization and accurate translations so they can adapt their content for a global audience. Amazon Translate allows ecommerce and marketplace retailers to translate millions of product titles, descriptions, and interactions between customers and sellers. In a global economy with customers around the world, localization can improve customer interactions and increase transactions. By automating content translation at scale, this Guidance minimizes the manual work involved with maintaining localized content.

How it works

These technical details feature an architecture diagram to illustrate how to effectively use this solution. The architecture diagram shows the key components and their interactions, providing an overview of the architecture's structure and functionality step-by-step.

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Well-Architected Pillars

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.

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This solution uses Amazon Cognito to authenticate translators prior to providing them with access to the translation management application. For data ingress from the PIM and CMS, this architecture will provide flexible authentication options including API keys, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) if the source system supports it, and customer authentication against a different identity provider using Lambda authorizers.

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This Guidance is based on an event-driven, distributed architecture. It uses a Step Functions workflow that provides built-in retry capabilities. Additionally, it uses EventBridge to support built-in retry capability for up to 24 hours with exponential back-off, a pattern where the wait time is increased exponentially after every retry attempt, and jitter, which adds some amount of randomness to the backoff to spread the retries around in time.

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Serverless technologies feature automatic scaling. If there is an influx of changes in the translation content, the architecture will scale accordingly and make changes in near real time.

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This architecture follows a serverless-first approach. Where possible, serverless services scale based on the number of content changes, which means costs will scale based on service usage. 

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AWS managed services scale up and down according to business requirements and traffic, making them more sustainable than on-premises architectures that do not offer on-demand scalability. Additionally, serverless components of this architecture automate the process of infrastructure management.

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