Cloud Reliability & Systems Integration for Aviation

What does reliable cloud infrastructure for aviation require?

Reliability in aviation is mostly about failure handling. Upstream feeds go silent, partners change formats without notice, and traffic spikes during disruption — exactly when the system matters most. Infrastructure has to assume these failures will happen and degrade gracefully rather than stop.

• Containerised services (Docker) with automated CI/CD, so every change is tested and reversible
• Health checks and feed-freshness monitoring, so a silent upstream outage raises an alert within minutes
• Autoscaling for disruption-driven traffic, with back-pressure on expensive upstream calls
• Structured logging, metrics, and tracing across every service
• Least-privilege access, secrets management, and encrypted data in transit and at rest

Which systems can AeroCraft integrate?

We connect the systems aviation businesses already depend on: GDS platforms such as Amadeus and Sabre, airline and airport operational databases, flight data providers, payment and CRM systems, and internal tools. Each integration is built as an isolated adapter with its own tests and monitoring, so a change at one partner cannot break the others.

Where a legacy system has no API, we build one around it — reading from its database or file exports — so it can participate in modern workflows without being replaced first.

Do you only build, or do you also operate?

Both. Many clients hand over operation of the platform after launch: monitoring, incident response, dependency updates, cost optimisation, and capacity planning. Others prefer to run it in-house, in which case we deliver runbooks, dashboards, and a handover period. The infrastructure is documented as code either way, so nothing lives only in one engineer's head.

What evidence is there of operational reliability?

AeroCraft operates its own production platforms continuously. Skyinfo serves 24/7 live data covering 7,883 airports, and our API suite, Fly-tlv, FlyTLV, and Fly2Meet each depend on upstream aviation feeds that fail in the ways described above. The monitoring and recovery patterns we offer clients are the ones that keep our own products running.

What does a reliability review of an existing platform cover?

We look at how the system behaves when things go wrong, because that is where aviation platforms fail. The review traces each upstream dependency and asks what happens if it stops, slows, or changes format; checks whether monitoring would notice within minutes; examines deployment and rollback; and assesses security basics such as access control and secrets handling.

The output is a ranked list of risks with a concrete fix and an effort estimate for each. Most clients address the top few immediately — often missing feed-freshness alerts or a manual deployment step — and schedule the rest. The review is useful on its own, whether or not AeroCraft carries out the fixes.

Reliability work is also cost work: the same review usually finds idle capacity, over-provisioned databases, and duplicate data transfers that can be removed without reducing resilience.