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How Amazon Key Opens 100 Million Doors Every Year
- Amazon faced delivery delays in 2018 due to access-controlled areas, leading to the creation of Amazon Key, a system that unlocks 100 million doors annually.
- Amazon Key allows verified delivery associates to unlock gates and doors for secure deliveries across multiple countries and continents.
- The system initially faced challenges with hardware fragmentation and network access, leading to the development of Amazon Key to address secure access for drivers.
- The system started with a small team and has now grown to unlock 100 million doors annually, ensuring efficient and reliable deliveries.
- Amazon Key expanded by transitioning to a global scale, focusing on hardware improvements, and moving to ECS Fargate for better scalability.
- The system's evolution included transitioning from Ethernet to cellular connectivity, ensuring global deployment, and breaking the system into modular services.
- Improvements in unlock response times, global expansion capabilities, and reliability were achieved by adopting microservices architecture and focusing on modular services.
- Amazon Key's integration with Grubhub marked the shift to a more extensible platform, accommodating third-party delivery providers while maintaining system integrity.
- Security measures like time-bound access tokens and mutual TLS were implemented for internal and external delivery systems to ensure secure and authorized access.
- Lessons learned from building Amazon Key include evolving systems as they scale, measuring key performance indicators, and designing for growth and resilience.
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