Case Study: entradas.com scales to sell 50,000 tickets in two days with Amazon Web Services

entradas.com - Customer Case Study

entradas.com is a Madrid-based online ticketing platform that sells tickets for movies, theater and large-scale events, with sporting events driving some of the biggest—and most abrupt—traffic spikes. Using physical servers, the company struggled with manual capacity provisioning and high operational overhead, which diverted engineering resources from product improvements and threatened its ability to reliably sell tickets for major matches.

entradas.com migrated to AWS (using Auto Scaling, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS and Amazon VPC) with partner support, enabling dynamic scaling and managed services. The move let the company sell 50,000 tickets in two days for a Spain–Italy qualifier (peaking at 500 tickets per minute), handle about 50% more traffic than before, cut IT maintenance by 50%, and demonstrate stronger security—freeing the team to expand further into the sporting events market.

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Marcelo Royán

Chief Technology Officer