Expedia Group on AWS
With AWS, Expedia unlocks the potential of data, creating great new experiences for travelers and partners.
Overview
Expedia Group’s cloud journey began as the company migrated its travel platform to AWS, establishing a level of consistency across cloud resources and standardizing governance policies for all 21+ different travel brands acquired through time. Expedia Group joined forces with AWS to create the company’s cloud center of excellence, to develop a flexible and highly adaptable community cluster auto scale and to create shared services for developers in order to spread innovation across the group, allowing Expedia Group to continuously solidify its position as a tech innovator in travel.
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With AWS, Expedia Group simplified its technology stacks, creating the company’s cloud center of excellence, developing a community cluster to simplify and accelerate scaling, as well as created shared services for developers to facilitate innovation and information sharing across all group's brands.
Expedia Group innovates across multiple tech stacks using AWS
Expedia Group (EG) chief technology officer (CTO) and president of Expedia Product & Technology Rathi Murthy shares how EG scaled through acquisition, which stifled innovation across tech stacks and directly impacted its travelers and partners. Watch as Murthy explains how EG modernized its infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) by migrating applications to a container-based platform.
Expedia Group scales database-as-a-service platform using AWS Service Catalog
Expedia Group has over 650 teams supporting more than 200 travel sites worldwide. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Expedia Group developed a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform called Cerebro and began scaling it out to the whole organization. Using this DBaaS, Expedia Group can provision databases quickly, manage them efficiently, and standardize governance and best practices across the company with a small team of database engineers.
Expedia Group leverages Amazon Macie for data protection and governance
As sensitive data continues to become more regulated, the need to continually monitor and control PII/PHI is a growing requirement. Expedia Group is applying a layered security approach with Amazon Macie and other AWS security services to support its data security, privacy, and data governance needs.
Expedia Group modernizes its infrastructure by migrating applications to a container-based platform
Expedia Group chief technology officer and president of Expedia product & technology Rathi Murthy shares how, using AWS, the company can serve up relevant photos and reviews for each traveler at sub-millisecond latency and with more than 99 percent accuracy on a platform that processes over 600 billion AI predictions a year powered by 70 petabytes of data.
Expedia's cloud journey
Expedia Group uses ML to create a better hotel booking experience
Expedia created deep learning algorithms that run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P3 instances to find and showcase relevant and high-quality hotel pictures from tens of millions of photos from partners, travelers, and hotel owners. By surfacing pictures with over 99 percent accuracy, Expedia Group gains trust with its travelers when they’re booking a hotel for their next trip.
Expedia Group scales database-as-a-service platform using AWS Service Catalog
Expedia Group built a scalable and flexible system to ingest high-volume data in real time as well as in batches using AWS Glue, Amazon EC2, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Aurora (Aurora), and Amazon CloudWatch. And using AWS, Expedia Group integrates its systems with the Salesforce platform creating a seamless experience.
Expedia Group maintains Its leadership by leveraging Amazon S3 and Automatic Replication
Expedia uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and automatic replication to help the company maintain its position as a global brand in the rapidly changing travel and hospitality industry.
With AWS, we benefit from their enterprise and cloud expertise and are able to feed into their product roadmap and jointly create products that help drive our business forward.
Rajesh Naidu
Senior vice president and chief architect, Expedia GroupAbout Expedia Group
Founded in 1996, Expedia Group is a technology company that powers global travel for travelers around the world. The company owns and operates travel brands such as Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Travelocity, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Ebookers, CheapTickets, CarRentals.com, Expedia Cruises, Wotif, and Trivago.
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