# Who does Airbnb Inc pay? Who are its key suppliers?
Canonical: https://valuechain.wiki/airbnb · Facet: suppliers · Updated: 2026-07-12T08:28:52.061393+00:00 · Source: ValueChain.wiki (cited money-flow graph)

**Citable summary**: Airbnb Inc's confirmed suppliers/cost counterparties include Amazon (AWS) plus 2 undisclosed/aggregate relationships. Per the valuechain.wiki graph: 3 cost edges, backed by 3 dated sources, 0 of them primary filings (as of 2026-07-12).

### 결제 처리 (비공개) (high)
- note: Payment processing and card fees on bookings are a large cost; individual processors and rates undisclosed.
- [mentions] TradingView (EN, news, published 2026-02-13) https://www.tradingview.com/news/tradingview:c03a1a2a8e50a:0-airbnb-inc-sec-10-k-report/: "The 10-K treats payment processing as a key component of cost of revenue."

### 마케팅·브랜드 (비공개) (high)
- note: Brand and performance marketing is a large cost and was one reason 2025 net income fell; details undisclosed.
- [confirms] TradingView (EN, news, published 2026-02-13) https://www.tradingview.com/news/tradingview:c03a1a2a8e50a:0-airbnb-inc-sec-10-k-report/: "The 10-K states 2025 net income fell 5% on higher compensation and marketing spend."

### Amazon (AWS) (high)  → /amazon.md
- note: Airbnb has run its entire service on Amazon Web Services (AWS) since its early days, using EC2, S3, RDS plus Kubernetes on EC2, OpenSearch and Kinesis; the cloud is a cost-side infrastructure, not a revenue line.
- [confirms] Amazon Web Services (Case Study) (EN, news, published 2023-01-01) https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/airbnb-case-study/: "Airbnb uses EC2 instances for application, memcache and search servers, S3 for backups and static files, and RDS for its main MySQL database."
- [confirms] Amazon Web Services Korea (Case Study) (KO, news, published 2023-01-01) https://aws.amazon.com/ko/solutions/case-studies/innovators/airbnb/: "Airbnb chose AWS, running Kubernetes on EC2 and a logging pipeline on OpenSearch and Kinesis, leaving infrastructure to AWS to focus on growth."

Reverse side: https://valuechain.wiki/airbnb/customers.md · Ripple: https://valuechain.wiki/airbnb/ripple.md

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