Grab has selected Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider to accelerate growth across its mobility, deliveries, and financial services verticals, including its new digibanks.
"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, said. "This requires rapid experimentation while ensuring security and stability, along with the ability to fully harness the potential of the latest tech like GenAI."
Optimising operating costs
Grab has adopted AWS' suite of cloud-based solutions to power most Southeast Asian operations, gain agility and reduce operational costs. AWS Clean Rooms enables Grab to access secure, privacy-preserving data collaboration. Moreover, Grab leverages AWS's purpose-built databases and has migrated over 400 backend application services from traditional virtual servers to AWS Graviton2 processors to optimise performance, cost and energy efficiency.
Grab uses Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) as its transactional database, coupled with Amazon DynamoDB, for its platform's high availability, scalability, and adaptability.
AI-led growth
Catwalk, Grab's machine learning (ML) model platform, is built on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Grab also uses AWS's custom-designed AWS Inferentia chips to power its AI-powered services, including map enhancements and fraud detection in its digital banks.
AWS also serves as the underlying compute infrastructure for Grab's AI initiatives, storing hundreds of petabytes of data and processing over 200 TB of data daily.
Jeff Johnson, managing director of ASEAN at AWS, said: "By leveraging AWS's unparalleled operational performance, scalability, and cutting-edge technologies, Grab is able to deliver personalised, seamless transactions to millions of users throughout the region."
