Overview

Engagement Overview

MakeMyTrip undertook a large-scale cloud transformation to modernize its technology foundation and support growing demand across its digital travel platforms. Operating a highly distributed application landscape across more than 1,500 servers in two on-premise data centers, the organization adopted an infrastructure model designed to better accommodate fluctuating traffic volumes while maintaining stability and cost control. Seasonal travel peaks, promotional campaigns, and real-time booking activity reinforced the importance of maintaining a responsive and resilient digital platform.

To support its next phase of digital growth, MakeMyTrip transitioned from traditional on-premise infrastructure to a scalable AWS-based environment using Infrastructure as Code. This approach helped establish a more flexible, highly available cloud platform capable of supporting peak travel demand while enabling faster innovation cycles.

Our Client

Travel & Hospitality India
MakeMyTrip is one of India’s largest online travel platforms, offering flight, hotel, holiday, and travel services to millions of customers nationwide. Its digital ecosystem supports highly dynamic traffic patterns driven by seasonal demand, marketing campaigns, and time-sensitive booking activity. Ensuring platform reliability and performance is therefore critical to business continuity and customer experience.
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Business Objective

MakeMyTrip identified the need to modernize its infrastructure as part of a broader cloud-led transformation strategy. 

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Enabling faster and more responsive infrastructure provisioning to support fluctuating demand and seasonal traffic surges

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Standardizing configuration and environment setup to improve consistency and accelerate application deployments

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Strengthening disaster recovery capabilities to meet modern availability expectations

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Enhancing security governance through more automated and policy-driven controls

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Improving infrastructure cost efficiency to allow greater flexibility for future digital initiatives

Business Solutions

To support these objectives, a phased AWS migration and cloud enablement program was adopted in close collaboration with MakeMyTrip’s engineering and infrastructure teams:

  • Migrated a large portfolio of applications and supporting infrastructure from on-premise data centers to AWS using a rehost (lift-and-shift) strategy as the foundation for cloud adoption
  • Introduced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to standardize provisioning, reduce manual configuration, and improve repeatability across environments
  • Enabled AWS Auto Scaling to adjust infrastructure capacity dynamically based on real-time traffic patterns, improving performance during peak periods while controlling costs during off-peak usage
  • Applied Spot Instances for non-production and load-testing environments to optimize operational spend
  • Implemented Blue-Green deployment strategies to reduce release risk and avoid customer disruption during updates
  • Realigned the platform architecture with cloud-native design principles to improve long-term scalability and resilience
  • Integrated automated unit, functional, and load testing into CI/CD pipelines to improve release confidence and reduce regression risks

Business impact

Business impact This phased cloud migration approach delivered measurable impact across availability, agility, and cost efficiency. 

99.99% infrastructure availability achieved on AWS, strengthening platform reliability for customer-facing services

Enabled auto-scaling to handle 500K to 1M daily requests, ensuring consistent performance during peak booking periods

Improved release cadence, with full production releases deployed approximately every 1.5 weeks

Enabled near-daily provisioning of QA and staging environments using a pay-as-you-go cloud model

Reduced operational overhead and infrastructure cost through elastic capacity management, automation, and spot instance utilization