Hotels.com goes all-in on AWS to power decisions with machine learning

Hotels.com, part of the world's largest online travel company Expedia, wants to power all of its decisions with machine learning, with the support of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Expedia started using AWS back in 2013 to speed up various large-scale projects using capacity and traffic management. It has since been moving the vast majority of its workloads to AWS, and at AWS re:Invent last year, the company announced that it would be going all-in on AWS. That will include standardizing its use of AWS machine learning technologies across all of its brands, including Expedia.com, Speaking to diginomica at AWS Summit London last month, Fryer explains that this will mean all of Expedia group's applications, websites and products, along with supporting technologies such as those focused on data and machine learning, will move from its data centers over a period of time onto the AWS technology stack.