ESCCE 09.16.25 - Scaling Venmo for High Volume Events

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Presenters: Maulin Vasavada (Manager, Venmo) Chris Ostler (Principal Engineer, Venmo) Jigar Mandli (Sr. TAM, AWS) Event: AWS Enterprise Support Customer Community Event - Irvine - September 16, 2025 - https://go.aws/3L88zt0 Theme: Moderization and Migration This session explores how Venmo tackles extreme traffic surges during major events with innovative cloud-native solutions built on AWS. Discover how the team engineered a system designed to seamlessly handle traffic spikes by scaling managed database services including Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon DocumentDB alongside containerized services to maintain sub-second response times even during peak periods. The presentation shares valuable insights into predictive capacity planning with AWS, real-time monitoring capabilities, and the engineering processes that keep everything running smoothly under pressure. Learn how the team transformed infrastructure challenges into opportunities for growth and innovation. Whether you're preparing for Black Friday rushes or viral social media moments, you'll gain actionable strategies for building systems that thrive under extreme load conditions. Learn more about AWS events: https://go.aws/events Subscribe: More AWS videos: http://bit.ly/2O3zS75 More AWS events videos: http://bit.ly/316g9t4 ABOUT AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts events, both online and in-person, bringing the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn from AWS experts. AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. #AWSEvents