How Pinterest Delivers 10M AI Recommendations per Second on AWS

Pinterest built an AI-powered discovery engine on AWS processing 18TB daily, delivering 10 million AI recommendations per second across 10,000+ GPU instances, driving 17% revenue growth and 70% AI-driven discovery.

Outcomes

17% YoYRevenue Growth
70%AI-Driven Discovery
11%MAU Growth
10M per secondAI Recommendations

Tools & Technologies

1AE
Amazon EKS
Managed Kubernetes service for running containerized applications
2AB
Amazon Bedrock
Fully managed service for accessing foundation models from leading AI companies via AWS.
3AS
Amazon SageMaker
Managed machine learning service for building, training, and deploying ML models in the cloud.

AI Categories

Challenge

Needed to process billions of images and deliver personalized recommendations from 500+ petabytes while maintaining user trust at massive scale.

Solution

Built microservices architecture on AWS with 10,000+ GPU instances, Pinterest Canvas diffusion model, visual search recognizing 2.5B objects, and voice-enabled AI assistant.

Full Story

Pinterest needed to evolve its AI-powered discovery system to process billions of images and deliver personalized recommendations from 500+ petabytes of data without compromising user trust or prioritizing addictive engagement.

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