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Amazon Second Life Commerce

An intelligent ecosystem where every returned product automatically finds its next best owner — through resale, refurbishment, donation, or recycling.

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Microservices

Live Apps

₹0

Idle Cost

100%

Serverless

The Problem

Returns are destroying value

₹68,000 Cr

Lost annually in return logistics, inspection, and restocking across Indian e-commerce

30%

Of all online purchases are returned — vs 8% in physical stores

2.6B kg

Of returned products end up in landfills every year despite being perfectly usable

Our Solution

Three phases. One connected system.

No existing solution connects prevention, intelligent resolution, and circular recovery into a single seamless platform.

Prevent

AI-powered purchase guidance warns customers before bad buys. Reduces returns at the source.

Resolve

Intelligent resolution center offers instant refunds, replacements, or keep-item options based on real-time economics.

Recover

Returned items are matched to nearby buyers and routed directly — skipping warehouse, saving ₹1,800+ per item.

Architecture

12 microservices. Fully serverless.


┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              FRONTEND (Next.js 14 + Cloudflare Pages)                  │
│   Customer  ·  Seller Central  ·  Operations  ·  Executive  │
└────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                             │ Server-side proxy
┌────────────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────┐
│          12 MICROSERVICES (AWS Lambda + API Gateway)          │
├──────────────────┬──────────────────┬───────────────────────┤
│ INTELLIGENCE     │ RECOVERY         │ PLATFORM              │
│ S1  Prevention   │ S5  Simulator    │ S4  Digital Twin      │
│ S2  Root Cause   │ S6  Optimizer    │ S11 Seller Intel      │
│ S3  Fraud/Trust  │ S7  Logistics    │ S12 Knowledge Graph   │
│ S10 Packaging    │ S8  Returnless   │                       │
│                  │ S9  Circular     │                       │
└──────────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
                             │
┌────────────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────┐
│    AWS: Lambda · API Gateway · DynamoDB · CDK · EventBridge  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Next.js 14

Frontend

Python / FastAPI

Backend

AWS Lambda

Compute

DynamoDB

Data

AWS CDK

IaC

Pydantic v2

Validation