Superapp Grab taps Amazon Web Services as its Preferred Cloud Provider

By Gloria Mathias

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, and Grab, Southeast Asia’s superapp, have announced that Grab has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider.

With AWS, Grab is pursuing a technology-led strategy to accelerate growth across its mobility, deliveries, and financial services verticals, including its new digibanks, while continuing to improve its operational efficiencies and reduce IT infrastructure costs.

Grab relies on the world’s cloud to serve 41.9 million monthly transacting users and over 13 million drivers and delivery partners registered on its platform. Every second, Grab processes over a hundred transactions, receives over 500k GPS pings, and services over 50,000 ETA requests. AWS powers Grab’s critical computing, storage, networking, and database functions. By leveraging AWS’s resilient, secure, and elastic cloud, Grab accelerates innovation, rapidly launches new services, and scales efficiently across its eight-country footprint: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

“At Grab, our strategy for growth is anchored on constant innovation to serve the needs of our users and partners,” said Suthen Thomas Paradatheth, CTO of Grab. “This requires rapid experimentation while ensuring security and stability, along with the ability to fully harness the potential of the latest tech, like generative AI. We’re pleased to extend our partnership with AWS as our preferred cloud partner to continue to support us on this journey.”

As Grab looks to balance growth with cost discipline, it is using AWS Cloud to power the majority of its operations in Southeast Asia across verticals such as mobility, deliveries, and financial services and entities, including its Digibanks in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. By adopting AWS’s suite of cloud-based solutions, Grab has been able to gain agility and reduce operational costs.

“AWS is proud to support Grab in its mission to drive innovation and enhance customer experiences across Southeast Asia,” said Jeff Johnson, managing director of ASEAN at AWS. “By leveraging AWS’s unparalleled operational performance, scalability, and technologies, Grab is able to deliver personalised, seamless transactions to millions of users throughout the region. AWS is uniquely positioned to help Grab optimise its price performance, boost operational efficiency, and continually evolve its broad suite of data-powered services.”