Innovation at work (at Yelp)
Learn how Yelp uses AWS to ease its data storage and management burdens and to boost user engagement for its 184 million user reviews and associated content.
Killing the shills
One of the primary keys to the success of Yelp—over other user review sites—is its ability to filter out “shill” or suspect content, thereby assuring that business ratings reflect real customer feedback. This requires a huge volume of storage and compute power, and it wasn’t long before Yelp’s original infrastructure of giant RAIDs and a single, local instance of Hadoop was unable to keep up.
Reviewing data management
Yelp replaced its overmatched RAIDs with Amazon S3 instances and immediately transferred all Hadoop jobs to Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR). The company can now store 1.2 TB of daily logs and photos and, with Amazon EMR, power 20 separate batch scripts (most processing the logs).
Achieving a five-star user experience
Empowered by AWS, Yelp is continuously improving user experiences by creating highly personalized recommendations and serving up hyper-relevant ads. The company also realized immediate financial benefits from its AWS migration, saving $55,000 in upfront hardware costs and getting up and running in a matter of days. That’s the value of innovation on AWS.
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