Airbnb - Global Accommodation Platform

Challenge

Airbnb needed a scalable infrastructure to handle millions of bookings across 220+ countries, process payments securely, and provide real-time search and recommendations to users worldwide.

Solution

Built entire platform on AWS using RDS for transactional data, ElastiCache for caching, EMR for big data analytics, and implemented multi-region deployment for global availability and disaster recovery.

Results

• Operates in 220+ countries
• 7M+ active listings
• 50% reduction in infrastructure costs
• Processes millions of bookings daily
• Sub-second search response time

Technologies Used

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