WIYAK: Scaling ride-hailing infrastructure on AWS

Overview

Executive summary

WIYAK is a leading ride-hailing and rental service provider in the Middle East, offering on-demand cab rides and bike and car rentals. Its existing DigitalOcean infrastructure had limited scalability and security. As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner, Core5 re-architected and migrated WIYAK's platform to AWS for high availability, stronger security and seamless scaling.

The challenge

What they were up against

• Scalability limits and performance bottlenecks on the existing DigitalOcean setup.
• Difficulty managing a rapidly growing data set.
• A need for high availability, seamless scaling and stronger security.
• High cost and complexity of managing infrastructure, which slowed feature delivery.
• A migration that had to minimise downtime and protect customer information.

Our solution

How Core5 approached it

• Designed a multi-tier architecture across public and private subnets in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Ran a phased migration with continuous data replication and thorough testing to minimise disruption.
• Orchestrated containerised microservices (ride management, rental bookings, cab dispatch) on Amazon EKS.
• Managed relational data on Amazon RDS and non-relational data on AWS DocumentDB.
• Added layered security with IAM, encryption at rest and in transit, and Amazon CloudWatch monitoring.

Technologies

Technologies used

Results

The outcome