Case Study: Vivino handles 300% holiday traffic growth with Amazon CloudFront

Vivino - Customer Case Study

Vivino, the wine app and community, needed a scalable infrastructure to support rapid global growth, faster feature delivery, and seasonal spikes in traffic. Its user base grew from about 12.5 million to 22 million in 2016, and the company wanted to be ready for further expansion and heavier load around Saturdays and the holiday period.

Vivino used Amazon CloudFront and other AWS services, including Auto Scaling for Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon SES, and Amazon SNS, to run its service in the cloud and serve scanner data faster. With Amazon CloudFront and the rest of the platform, Vivino said it could handle a 300% increase in holiday traffic, send promotions to millions of users in seconds, and launch new features more quickly, including a cache layer that would otherwise have taken more than 100 hours of team time.

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Birkir Barkarson

Vice President of Engineering