Airbnb on AWS

[2022] Airbnb supports hundreds of critical services on its platform, making it essential to maintain a reliable source control infrastructure. However, source control infrastructure had become an operational headache due to scaling issues. Airbnb sought a solution it could use to re-architect the source code infrastructure with a simpler storage layer. The system needed to update in seconds and read traffic needed to scale. Airbnb turned to AWS to help achieve its goals.

[2016] A year after Airbnb launched, the company decided to migrate nearly all of its cloud computing functions to AWS because of service administration challenges experienced with its original provider. Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder & CTO of 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.”