Amazon.comIntroductionAmazon.com is a complex website that handles the sale of many products, from books to movies to games and much more. Websites consist of layers of tabs that help direct the customer to the category where the product they are looking for is located. With the large amount of products they handle, Amazon needs to stay up to date with the latest hardware and software to ensure their website runs smoothly. This includes things like databases, data communications products and security software. Amazon.com should also use the System Design Life Cycle (SDLC) consistently to determine whether or not new applications should be added to their business. As shown below, all of these components are important and contribute to the smooth running of the process. Hardware and software I/O, high storage, high memory cluster and t1.micro. Standard instances have CPU-intensive applications; High-memory instances provide larger memory sizes for memory-intensive applications, including database and memory caching applications; and high-CPU instances have proportionally more CPU resources than memory (RAM) and are well-suited for scalable, compute-intensive applications. The software would be Microsoft Security Essential with an Unbox video player. Databases and Data Communication What technology can do for a business is important. A database retrieves information from one location and sends it to another location. Amazon's database is the backbone of the company because Amazon is an e-commerce based company. Amazon uses a Linux-based database. From 2...... middle of paper ......or collaboration. Amazon has a dedicated team of trained call managers to ensure systematic and smooth collaboration (Amazon, May 2011). Conclusion Amazon website providers offer a myriad of products and services. The current hardware and software infrastructure in place is optimal, but adding new technologies can help the website achieve maximum efficiency. Product X is used for software. X is for hardware. The database/communication is x. SDLC can help the aforementioned technologies by analyzing what is currently in use and improving it. SDLC is a system composed of 3 phases: system definition, requirements phase and component design. A disaster recovery plan should be in place for current and new technologies. The plan would include data backup and a secondary installation. System Design Lifecycle Can Improve Amazon Efficiency and Functionality.