Notice of discontinuation
Important: This solution will retire in November 2025. Until then, deployments (via CloudFormation or GitHub) will remain operational, but customers will assume responsibility for maintenance and API-related updates after support ends.
Overview
The Virtual Waiting Room on AWS solution helps buffer incoming user requests to your website during large bursts of traffic. It creates a cloud infrastructure designed to temporarily offload incoming traffic to your website, and it provides options to customize and integrate a virtual waiting room. The waiting room acts as a holding area for visitors to your website and allows traffic to pass through when there is enough capacity.
Examples of large-scale events that could produce a surge in website traffic include:
- Start of sale for concert or sporting event tickets
- Fire sale or other large retail sale, such as Black Friday
- New product launch with broad marketing announcements
- Exam access and class attendance for online testing and lessons
- Release of medical appointment slots
- Launch of a new direct-to-customer service that requires account creation and payments
Benefits
Technical details
You can automatically deploy this architecture using the implementation guide and the accompanying AWS CloudFormation template
How it works
Use cases for this AWS Solution
About this deployment
Version: 1.1.13
Released: 6/2025
Author: AWS
Est. deployment time: 30 mins
Estimated cost: See details
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