Join Tony from American Airlines (AA) and Simon from IBM as they share how AA transitioned from IBM Cloud Classic to IBM Cloud VPC, Container and PaaS Services. This transformation supports American’s mission to be the world’s most reliable airline—backed by the world’s most resilient IT infrastructure. Learn how the team enhanced security, resiliency, performance and scalability across customer-facing platforms like AA.com, the mobile application, and airport kiosks. The session highlights key architectural decisions, the challenges of migrating mission-critical workloads, achieving continuous security and compliance, and how IBM Cloud laid the foundation for a modern, fault-tolerant and secure hybrid multi cloud environments that supports millions of travelers.

Anthony Marcotte, Manager of Digital Platforms & Commercial Technology, American Airlines

Simon Daniel Moser, Distinguished Engineer, CTO IBM Cloud Container Services, IBM

Session Topic: Hybrid Cloud, App Runtimes
Activity Type: Technology Breakout
Industry: Travel & Transportation
Technical Level: Intermediate Level
Product: IBM Cloud, Cloud Infrastructure, IBM Kubernetes Services, VPC Infrastructure for Enterprise Workloads on IBM Cloud
Role: Developer, Infrastructure Engineer