How Airbnb use AWS?
A whole new Trip Platform where you can book a homestay, book an authentic local experience or book your favorite local food online along with enjoying great hospitality offline.
The best example of developing a completely healthy travel culture with more than 150 million users, 31 offices worldwide and experiencing the fastest growing host demographics of 400 million guests hosted since it’s launch in 2008.
AirBnB brought the whirlwind of change in the hospitality sector and become one of the most curious data discussed across the globe.
Airbnb began operation in 2008 and currently has hundreds of employees across the globe supporting property rentals in nearly 25,000 cities in 192 countries.
Airbnb says,
“Initially, the appeal of AWS was the ease of managing and customizing the stack. It was great to be able to ramp up more servers without having to contact anyone and without having minimum usage commitments. As our company continued to grow, so did our reliance on the AWS cloud and now, we’ve adopted almost all of the features AWS provides. AWS is the easy answer for any Internet business that wants to scale to the next level.”
Which AWS Services are they using?
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) : The company uses 200 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances for its application, memcache, and search servers. Within Amazon EC2, Airbnb is using Elastic Load Balancing, which automatically distributes incoming traffic between multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
- Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) : To easily process and analyze 50 Gigabytes of data daily, Airbnb uses Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR).
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) : Airbnb is also using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to house backups and static files, including 10 terabytes of user pictures.
- Amazon CloudWatch :To monitor all of its server resources, Airbnb uses Amazon CloudWatch, which allows the company to easily supervise all of its Amazon EC2 assets through the AWS Management Console, Command Line Tools, or a Web services API.
- Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) : Airbnb moved its main MySQL database to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Airbnb chose Amazon RDS because it simplifies much of the time-consuming administrative tasks typically associated with databases. Amazon RDS allows difficult procedures, such as replication and scaling, to be completed with a basic API call or through the AWS Management Console.
“I intuitively believe that we are making the most of our engineers to push the business forward and doing it in a cost effective way on AWS”
— Mike Curtis, VP of Engineering, Airbnb.
