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Bus booking platform

A bus booking platform had not kept pace with what travelers expect. We rebuilt it on serverless AWS services, with automated deployment.

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The facts

Customer
Bus booking platform
Industry
Bus travel
Work
Modernize
Cloud
AWS

The result

A smoother booking processTravelers report smoother, more reliable booking

The challenge

  • A booking system that lagged behind modern expectations.
  • Traffic that had to scale without slowing.
  • Secure payments and protected user data.
  • A simple booking process.

What we did

  • Built the platform on AWS Lambda, so it scales with demand.
  • Added Amazon Cognito for sign-in and AWS Secrets Manager for sensitive data.
  • Stored data in Amazon DynamoDB and images in Amazon S3.
  • Automated builds and releases with GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines.
  • Introduced QR-code tickets, so boarding checks are faster and more secure.

How it was built

  1. API and logic
    • Amazon API Gateway
    • AWS Lambda
    • AWS AppSync
  2. Data
    • Amazon DynamoDB
    • Amazon S3
  3. Events and mail
    • Amazon EventBridge
    • Amazon SQS
    • Amazon SNS
    • Amazon SES
  4. Identity and secrets
    • Amazon Cognito
    • AWS Secrets Manager
    • AWS IAM
    • AWS AppConfig
  5. Edge
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • Amazon Route 53
  6. Delivery
    • GitHub Actions
    • Azure Pipelines

What came of it

  • TrafficThe platform takes high traffic without slowing.
  • OperationsAutomated workflows cut the manual work of updates and deployments.
  • SecurityUser data is better protected.

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