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Architecture Overview: Starlight Retail Backup Service

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Starlight Retail Backup Service is delivered through AWS Marketplace as a seller-managed SaaS offering for backup, recovery, and disaster recovery operations. The service uses AWS Marketplace fulfillment, registration, entitlement, and subscription lifecycle events to activate customer access and drive onboarding into the Starlight Retail control plane.

Architecture diagram for Starlight Retail Backup Service

High-level architecture flow

  1. A buyer subscribes to Starlight Retail Backup Service in AWS Marketplace.
  2. AWS Marketplace sends the fulfillment token to the Starlight Retail fulfillment endpoint, which validates the request and creates a signed registration session.
  3. The buyer completes registration and account linking through the Starlight Retail onboarding flow.
  4. AWS Marketplace subscription, entitlement, and agreement events are processed by the Starlight Retail serverless control plane to keep customer state synchronized.
  5. After onboarding, administrators configure backup policies, recovery operations, and protected workload settings in the Starlight Retail service.

Core service components

  • AWS Marketplace integration: Handles fulfillment, entitlement, and subscription lifecycle events for the product listing.
  • Public service entrypoints: Buyers are routed through Starlight Retail registration and onboarding endpoints exposed through the service domain.
  • Serverless control plane: API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and Amazon EventBridge are used to process registration, event ingestion, entitlement updates, and provisioning workflows.
  • Operational onboarding: Buyers do not deploy a customer-managed CloudFormation stack for initial activation. Access is provisioned through the Starlight Retail SaaS control plane.
  • Backup operations: The service is designed to support backup administration, recovery workflows, and disaster recovery readiness across protected environments.

What buyers should know

  • Start with the AWS Marketplace subscription flow and complete registration before attempting to use the service.
  • If fulfillment or entitlement does not complete as expected, use the troubleshooting article linked below.
  • For onboarding help or support requests, contact Starlight Retail support.

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