Re: Alaskan Airlines IT outage grounds their fleet

On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 05:55:15 -0000 (UTC), vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
wrote:

...does anyone know anything about their IT architecture?  Wondering
what went wrong?

How Alaska Airlines uses technology to ensure its passengers have a
seamless journey from ticket purchase to baggage pickup
...
using technology like Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Defender and GitHub
to help along the way.
...
We look at it in terms of two main platforms: Our own datacenters to
support part of our critical workloads and the Microsoft Azure Cloud
platform to support the other part of the workload. We started about
10 years ago with Azure and we've been strategically moving workloads
from our datacenters to Azure. We invest in both platforms and make
sure we have strong partners like Microsoft who can stand behind the
technology platforms we pick.

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/digital-transformation/how-alaska-airlines-uses-technology-to-ensure-its-passengers-have-a-seamless-journey-from-ticket-purchase-to-baggage-pickup/