Architecture details
This section describes the components and AWS services that make up this Guidance and the architecture details on how these components work together.
AWS services in this Guidance
| AWS service | Description |
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Amazon S3 |
Core. Stores inventory and archives transferred from the Amazon Glacier service. |
| Amazon Glacier | Core. Maintains the vault being transferred to the Amazon S3 service. |
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Amazon DynamoDB |
Core. Stores workflow-related data, including hash validation values and progress metrics for Amazon Glacier archives. |
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AWS Glue |
Core. Reorders and splits the Amazon Glacier vault inventory file into partitions for processing by multiple Lambda invocations. Parses file names from Inventory/OverrideNaming file. |
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AWS Lambda |
Core. Performs workflow compute, including archive transfer and validation. |
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Amazon SNS |
Supporting. Decouples Lambda workflows by providing communication between the Guidance, the Amazon Glacier service, and Amazon SQS queues. |
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Amazon SQS |
Supporting. Decouples Lambda workflows. |
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Amazon CloudWatch |
Supporting. Stores the Guidance logs and metrics. Presents a custom dashboard to provide visibility of the archive copy operation progress. |
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Amazon EventBridge |
Supporting. Invokes supporting workflows that promote the smooth operation of the Guidance. |
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IAM |
Supporting. Provides permissions for this Guidance's resources to perform actions. |
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AWS Systems
Manager |
Supporting. Provides a Systems Manager document (SSM document) for Guidance's workflow invocations. |
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AWS Step
Functions |
Supporting. Orchestrates partitioning the inventory with AWS Glue. Also orchestrates Lambda invocations to request Amazon Glacier vault archive retrieval. |
