Sabre To Move Airline Availability To Amazon’s Cloud
by Cheryl Rosen /Sabre Corp. will begin delivering cloud-based flight availability later this year using solutions from the Amazon Web Services Cloud.
For travel agents, the move will enable faster shopping and faster responses, Sabre said.
Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Generally, a cloud has servers in several locations to meet the needs of users in different areas of the world.
One of the major advantages of cloud computing is that users can scale up and down, using only the resources they need and adding more during peak periods.
Carriers will house their availability data in the AWS Cloud. The data can then be accessed by any shopping channel–an airline’s website, online or offline agency, or other source.
Airlines will be able to manage availability for the different channels through a single source.
Sabre said that as the world moves to a computing ecosystem dominated by mobile devices, the cloud can deliver the speed and frictionless transactions that are the expected norm.
By relying on a single-source delivery of a cloud-based system, airlines can manage availability for the different channels through one source.
