Robinhood, the food delivery app, chooses AWS as its cloud service provider.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. or AWS, an Amazon.com subsidiary, today announced that the development team of food delivery app Robinhood has chosen AWS as its cloud service provider. To increase agility, innovation and development efficiency

By leveraging AWS’s cloud offering that stands out for its comprehensive and broad range of services and tools or features in each service. Whether it is a container service, database, processing and machine learning to support restaurants. Food delivery staff And thousands of customers in Bangkok Come to use this app Since it was launched in October 2020

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This mobile app was created in just 3 months. It is the first food delivery app in Thailand to not charge sales fees (GP or Gross Profit) from small food vendors facing financial hardship during COVID-19. This allows restaurants to earn every penny for every penny sold through Robinhood, helping more than 80,500 retail restaurants and 13,000 delivery workers across Bangkok. Earn more

The GP fee charged by the restaurant from the Thai food delivery platform averages 30 – 35% of each order. It is difficult for a small restaurant to make a profit. As Robin Hood started out as part of the SCB Group’s CSR activities. Aimed at helping small restaurants increase their sales through online channels.

Purple Ventures Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SCB 10X under the Siam Commercial Bank Group, developed the Robin Hood app based on the Robin Hood cloud system. There are various service applications.

Of AWS, such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), which gives you the flexibility to get started. And the system can also be easily scaled to scale applications when performance is needed. The development team has deployed Robin Hood’s merchant, customer, and basic transaction services to build containers to run on Amazon EKS, dramatically reducing the time to administer and manage the Kubernetes Cluster.

Robin Hood also uses Amazon Aurora MySQL, a high-performance relational database built specifically for the cloud, to process food orders. The system supports up to 3,000 food orders per minute. In order to process large volumes of orders, AWS Batch is used to help process back-office work. This makes multistep processing easy and efficient. It helps to process orders quickly and create a good customer experience.

For example, Robin Hood can transfer money, delivery and merchandise to riders and restaurants within an hour or make a refund as soon as the item is canceled. AWS Batch also helps generate restaurant recommendations. Get as close as possible to each customer for up to 50% less delivery time.

In addition, using Amazon SageMaker, a fully cloud-based machine learning model trainer, Robin Hood made it easy to recommend the right restaurant for more than 926,000 customers.

Sihanat Lamsam, managing director of Purple Ventures Co., Ltd., said Robin Hood has played a very important role in helping thousands of Thai restaurants that are severely affected by the current epidemic situation. Purple Ventures provides assistance to these small restaurants that rely primarily on walk-in customers. To be able to sell food

By developing Robinhood to help customers order food even when not in the store. And the fact that we do not charge fees from Purple Ventures restaurants helps smaller ones. These can use the app to sell their products.

“By using AWS’s cloud services, we have been able to efficiently expand the technology to support more users. This will help support the plan. To expand the service to other provinces as well to support more small restaurant operators nationwide ”

Conor McNamara, Managing Director of ASEAN, Amazon Web Services, said AWS is delighted to be working with A team of developers to quickly create the Robinhood app. By using cloud technology to create new opportunities for small restaurants in Thailand

Using AWS as a cloud provider for Robinhood apps, Purple Ventures provides access to the most comprehensive and expert cloud services available. To develop innovation And help the small restaurant operators to increase their profits and expand their customer base.