Case Study: TicketSwap achieves rapid, automatic scaling with Amazon Web Services

TicketSwap Tames Demand Ups and Downs with AWS

TicketSwap, one of Europe’s largest ticket exchange sites, faced extreme seasonal spikes in demand that its own servers couldn’t handle reliably. After brief trouble running its own infrastructure, the company turned to Amazon Web Services, using services such as Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, and Amazon EKS to support its rapidly changing traffic and Europe-based customer base.

Amazon Web Services implemented scalable cloud infrastructure, load balancing, and AWS Auto Scaling so TicketSwap could ramp capacity up and down automatically. The result was the ability to scale to 15 times normal capacity during major ticket drops, avoid downtime when changing instance types, and reduce waste during quieter periods; AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets also helped optimize spending and control costs.

TicketSwap

Pascal de Vink

Lead architect