AWS Serverless Cloud Design: Uber / Ride-Hailing App

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🧠 DEEP DIVE USE CASE

AWS Serverless Cloud Design: Uber / Ride-Hailing App

Apps like Uber, Lyft, or Ola have made real-time ride matching feel effortless. You tap a button and within seconds you're paired with a nearby driver, watching them move toward you on the map.

But behind that smooth experience is a system handling real-time location updates, distributed coordination, payments, state transitions, and user communication, all under unpredictable traffic.

In this edition, I’ll break down how I designed a fully serverless backend for a ride-hailing platform, focusing on scale, reliability, and real-time responsiveness.

Here, I’ve created the design document covering the components and the end-to-end flow.

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