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Architecture for Airline Crew Management Systems - Architecture for Airline Crew Management Systems
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Architecture for Airline Crew Management Systems

Publication date: June 11, 2021 (Diagram history)

You can use AWS to create a highly available, secure, flexible, and cost-effective architecture for airline crew management systems. This architecture connects corporate users to crew applications through multiple networking options.

This architecture uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service for container orchestration. It stores crew data in Amazon Aurora and provides business intelligence through Amazon Quick Sight.

Airline crew management systems diagram

Architecture for airline crew management using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Quick Sight.

The following steps describe the architecture:

  1. Connect corporate users and systems to crew management on AWS. Use AWS Direct Connect as primary and AWS Site-to-Site VPN as secondary.

  2. Amazon Cognito provides user authentication and access control to crew applications.

  3. Crew apps resolve domain names through Route 53 to API Gateway and CloudFront. API Gateway provides access to the application tier. CloudFront serves static pages and assets from Amazon S3. AWS WAF protects these resources.

  4. The application tier has a private Application Load Balancer for crew management microservices. Connect the Application Load Balancer to an Amazon EKS cluster across two Availability Zones.

  5. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition provides high availability with Aurora Replicas. Store data copies across multiple Availability Zones.

  6. Use AWS cloud security services for at-rest, end-to-end encryption. Protect credentials and private keys.

  7. Use CloudWatch and monitoring tools to optimize operational health.

  8. Create a data lake with Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier for crew management data. Use the data lake for reporting, visualization, and advanced analytics.

  9. Use Quick for business intelligence on crew planning, training statistics, and crew utilization.

Further reading

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