Southeast Asia's superapp Grab has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider.
Using AWS' infrastructure, Grab serves 41.9 million monthly transacting users and more than 12 million driver and delivery partners.
“At Grab, our strategy for growth is anchored on constant innovation to outserve the needs of our users and partners,” Suthen Thomas Paradatheth, CTO, Grab.
"This requires rapid experimentation while ensuring security and stability, along with the ability to fully harness the potential of the latest tech like GenAI. We're pleased to extend our partnership with AWS as our preferred cloud partner to continue to support us on this journey."
According to Grab, the company handles more than one hundred transactions, 500,000 GPS pings, and 50,000 ETA requests every second. All of this is handled with AWS' compute, storage, networking, and database offerings.
Grab is using AWS Cloud for the majority of its operations in Southeast Asia including mobility, deliveries, and financial services verticals. The company has also migrated more than 400 backend application services from traditional virtual servers to AWS' Graviton2 processors for better cost and energy efficiency.
Grab has a machine learning model platform dubbed Catwalk built on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service which has been used to deploy more than 1,000 AI models in productions. The company uses AWS Inferentia chips for its AI-powered services.
Grab stores hundreds of petabytes of data on AWS, and processes more than 200TB of data on AWS daily, all of which forms the basis for its analytics, machine learning and AI initiatives.
"AWS is proud to support Grab in their mission to drive innovation and enhance customer experiences across Southeast Asia," said Jeff Johnson, managing director, ASEAN at AWS.
"By leveraging AWS's unparalleled operational performance, scalability, and cutting-edge technologies, Grab is able to deliver personalized, seamless transactions to millions of users throughout the region. As the leading cloud provider, AWS is uniquely positioned to help Grab optimize its price performance, boost operational efficiency, and continually evolve its broad suite of data-powered services. We're excited to continue collaborating with Grab as they navigate the dynamic landscape of ecommerce and superapp development, ensuring they stay at the forefront of innovation in the digital economy.”
Grab Holdings Inc. is headquartered in One-North, Singapore, and was originally founded as MyTeksi in 2022 with the goal of making Taxis safer in Malaysia. It was rebranded in 2016 and expanded its offerings.
