Amadeus has reached a landmark moment in its systems infrastructure as it begins to deploy its shopping applications onto Google Cloud servers following the decommissioning of its mainframes.

This milestone makes Amadeus Master Pricer one of the first core travel industry applications to be deployed on the public cloud.

The move is a major step forward in Amadeus’ vision for cloud-based architecture that is globally distributed across both the private and public cloud, driving more speed, responsiveness, and resilience in global operations.

In addition, Amadeus is now progressively migrating its shopping applications to run on the public cloud across multiple regions.

This enables Amadeus to scale its system capacity faster and on-demand, which is particularly key in moments of peak travel.

Paul Strong, technical director at the CTO office, Google Cloud, said: “We are thrilled to be the cloud provider of choice to embark Amadeus on a new journey towards delivering on its customers’ ambitions with more performance, quickly and efficiently.

“Google Cloud offers secure, reliable and open solutions with a high return, and we intend to be a preferred cloud partner in travel enabling the industry to take full advantage of cloud technology.”

At the same time, Amadeus has become the first in the industry to shut down all its mainframes after a long technical marathon which began over ten years ago.

Now running 100 per cent on open systems, Amadeus is boosting innovation for customers and developing new products and features much more rapidly without waiting for bespoke mainframe coding to take place.

Denis Lacroix, senior vice president, core shared services research and development, Amadeus, commented: “Change is exhilarating.

“In our hyper competitive industry, sub-second response times and flexibility of deployment have become essential to deliver on travellers’ promises.

“The successful deployment of such a major travel application with a leading cloud partner as Google Cloud represents a huge technical achievement, enabling Amadeus to enter a new era in travel innovation.

“With open systems on the cloud, we can build solutions to meet the changing requirements of our customers as they adapt to the needs of travellers – the sky is really the limit in our technical capabilities.”