Evolve Vacation Rentals
Evolve's Strategic Integration with Rentals United on AWS
Scaling a multi-channel vacation rental distribution platform through modern cloud architecture
Challenge
Evolve needed to expand beyond major marketplaces like Airbnb and Vrbo while maintaining reliable, partner-specific integrations across a growing distribution network.
Solution
Mapleton Hill partnered with Evolve and Rentals United to design an API-first, AWS-based integration layer that abstracts partner complexity and enables scalable onboarding.
Results
A flexible distribution platform that supports rapid partner expansion, improves operational visibility, and reduces integration risk.
Platform Priorities
The platform was designed around a clear set of operational priorities:
Performance
Optimized for high-volume data synchronization and booking workflows.
Scalability
Automatically adapts to seasonal demand and partner growth without manual intervention.
Architectural flexibility
A modular, pattern-based design that supports rapid onboarding of new distribution channels.
Operational visibility
Real-time monitoring and logging to ensure system health and faster issue resolution.
Stability
Resilient, fault-tolerant services that minimize operational risk.
The Challenge and Approach
Evolve Vacation Rentals needed to scale distribution beyond Airbnb and Vrbo, but each new channel partner introduced custom integration work that strained engineering capacity and slowed growth.
Mapleton Hill partnered with Evolve and Rentals United to design a unified, serverless integration layer on AWS — abstracting partner complexity while maintaining control over data flows, booking logic, and system reliability.
Technologies Leveraged
The solution leverages core AWS services to deliver scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency:
AWS Lambda
Event-driven compute for partner integrations and data processing.
Amazon SQS
Asynchronous message handling to decouple systems and improve resilience.
Amazon API Gateway
Secure, scalable API endpoints for partner communication.
Amazon S3
Durable object storage for property data and media assets.
Amazon Aurora
High-performance relational database supporting transactional workloads.
The Partnership
Evolve's partnership with Mapleton Hill and Rentals United demonstrates how thoughtful platform architecture can unlock growth in complex integration ecosystems. The resulting AWS-based platform enables Evolve to expand its distribution footprint confidently while maintaining the performance and reliability required to support a growing portfolio of properties.
