Case Study
Zillow Provides Near-Real-Time Home-Value Estimates Using Amazon Kinesis
Zillow enhances home valuation accuracy and scalability using Amazon Kinesis, Apache Spark on Amazon EMR, and Amazon S3. By leveraging AWS, Zestimate computations have shifted from taking a day to completing in seconds, providing near-real-time home-value estimates for 100+ million homes. Amazon Kinesis streams real estate data, while Spark on EMR enables parallel machine-learning processing, improving speed and accuracy. Zillow also uses Amazon S3 as a scalable data lake for personalization, ad targeting, and analytics. AWS allows effortless scaling, ensuring faster, more reliable real estate insights for buyers and sellers.