AWS Case Study: Airbnb

IST 420 - Team Project Milestone 5

December 4, 2019
Team 8: Ethan Chriswell, Harold Trakhman, Rafael Lozano, Noah Johnson
 Table of Contents

Executive Summary………………………………………………………………..... 3
Organization Background.……………………….……..………………………….. 4
Project Plan…………………………………………………………………………. 5
Organizational Chart and Culture Summary…………………………………….. 6
Policies and Procedures Summary………………………………………….……... 7
Stakeholder Analysis………………………………………..……………………..… 9
Team Reflections………………………………………..…………………………….10
Summary……………………………………………………………………………....10
Milestone 1: Overview………………………………………………………..10
Milestone 2: Use-Case Diagrams……………………………………………...10
Milestone 3: Activity Diagrams………………………………………………..11
Milestone 4: Use Case Descriptions…………………………………………..11
Milestone 5: Sequence Diagrams………………………………....…………..11
Appendices…………………………………………..……………...…………………..11
Appendix A: Use Case Diagrams…………………..…………………....… 12
Appendix B:Activity Diagrams……………..…………………………….. 14
Appendix C: Use Case Descriptions……………..………………...…..….. 17
Appendix D: Sequence Diagrams………….…………………...……..…… 20
Appendix E: E-R Diagram…….....…………………………………..…….. 23
Append F:Team MOU……………..…………………………………..…… 24
Comment Section………………………..………………………….. 25
Executive Overview:

Airbnb is a technology company that has created a platform for house owners and short

term renters to connect. Airbnb has asked Amazon Web Services (AWS) to migrate all of their

cloud computing systems over to AWS. Airbnb was attracted to the scalability feature of having

AWS host their cloud systems. In addition to the cloud computing, Airbnb has also implemented

Amazon storage services, Amazon Cloud Monitoring services, and Amazons relational database

service. A quick transition from legacy systems to new Amazon systems was imperative for

Airbnb so they could minimize downtime.Airbnb needs a system that can grow as fast as their

company and AWS is their solution.

Introduction

Airbnb is one of the hottest tech companies that is a relatively new company. Originally

founded in 2007, the company has grown in popularity in the past 5 years. With many

investments by big time investment firms, Airbnb is quickly outgrowing their current IT systems,

and are looking for something more modular. Airbnb is a people-to-people platform that

connects homeowners and travelers together to reinvent how we travel.

Organizational Background

Airbnb was originally founded in 2007 as a lodging service that connects lodgers to

house owners. The two original founders

Brian Chesky (CEO) and Joe Gebbia

(CPO), and soon after Nathan Blecharczyk

(CTO) joined to make the trio that started

Airbnb. Airbnb has quickly grown into a

large tech company now worth around $31

Billion Dollars. As of now Airbnb is a

private company, but are in the talks of

going public. The company offers 7 million places to stay in over 100,000 cities in 191 countries.

The company has its hands all around the world and has competing with big hotel companies.

Mission and Goals

Airbnb’s Mission statement is “To Create a World where you can belong anywhere and

where people can live in a place instead of traveling to it.” The company's core values are

simplify, be a host, embrace the adventure, every frame matters,champion the mission and be a

cereal entrepreneur. The company is looking to be the go-to way of finding a place to stay when

traveling, making traveling a home like experience. Airbnb people-to-people platform tries to

connect people in ways never possible before the technical revolution. They try to make
traveling an effortless process and giving homeowners an opportunity to make extra money at

the same time. Airbnb is trying to push the boundaries of what we know as hospitality and make

vacationing a home like experience.