Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

E-commerce

The following diagram shows the e-commerce solution across three domains: public networks, cloud service provider, and enterprise networks. The public network domain contains commerce users and their e-commerce channel that supports user interaction. The edge services handle traffic between the pubic network and the CSP. The cloud service provider can host comprehensive e-commerce capabilities, such as merchandising, location awareness, B2B2C commerce, payment processing, customer care, distributed order management, supply chain management, and warehouse management.

The enterprise network domain represents existing enterprise systems. It includes organizational applications, data stores, and user directories. Results are delivered ...