{"id":187833,"date":"2024-04-21T16:26:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T21:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/how-united-airlines-uses-ai-to-make-flying-the-friendly-skies-a-bit-easier"},"modified":"2024-04-21T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T21:26:24","slug":"how-united-airlines-uses-ai-to-make-flying-the-friendly-skies-a-bit-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/how-united-airlines-uses-ai-to-make-flying-the-friendly-skies-a-bit-easier","title":{"rendered":"How United Airlines uses AI to make flying the friendly skies a bit easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-united-airlines-uses-ai-to-make-flying-the-friendly-skies-a-bit-easier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m starting to see these companies and startups that are, \u2018How do you optimize your cloud, and how do you manage your cloud?\u2019 There\u2019s a lot of people focused on questions like, \u2018You\u2019ve got a lot of data, can I store it better for you?\u2019 Or, \u2018You\u2019ve got a lot of new applications; can I help you monitor them better?\u2019 Because all the tools you used to have don\u2019t work anymore,\u201d he said. Maybe the age of digital transformation is over, he said, and we\u2019re now in the age of cloud optimization.<\/p>\n<p>United itself has bet heavily on the cloud, specifically AWS as its <a href=\"https:\/\/press.aboutamazon.com\/2021\/11\/aws-named-united-airlines-preferred-cloud-provider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preferred cloud provider<\/a>. Unsurprisingly, United, too, is looking at how the company can optimize its cloud usage, from both a cost and reliability perspective. Like for so many companies that are going through this process, that also means looking at developer productivity and adding automation and DevOps practices into the mix. \u201cWe\u2019re there. We have an established presence [in the cloud], but now we\u2019re kind of in the market to try to continue to optimize as well,\u201d Birnbaum said.<\/p>\n<p>But that also comes back to reliability. Like all airlines, United still operates a lot of legacy systems \u2014 and they still work. \u201cFrankly, we are extra careful as we move through this journey, to make sure we don\u2019t disrupt the operation or create self-inflicted wounds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m starting to see these companies and startups that are, \u2018How do you optimize your cloud, and how do you manage your cloud?\u2019 There\u2019s a lot of people focused on questions like, \u2018You\u2019ve got a lot of data, can I store it better for you?\u2019 Or, \u2018You\u2019ve got a lot of new applications; can I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}