Aerospace company leverages AWS’s unmatched
breadth and depth of services and proven infrastructure to design
and manufacture the world’s fastest and most sustainable commercial
aircraft
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc.
company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Boom Technology, Inc. (Boom
Supersonic), a Denver-based aviation company that is bringing
commercial supersonic flight back to the skies, is going all-in on
AWS. Boom Supersonic is leveraging the world’s leading cloud to
provide the company with the virtually unlimited compute power,
storage, security, and comprehensive set of services that it will
take to reinvent supersonic commercial travel. The company is
designing the first supersonic airliner in decades, called
Overture, which will roll out in 2025, and will fly more than 500
transoceanic routes in half the time. For example, Overture will
take passengers from Tokyo to Seattle in four and a half hours.
Since its inception, Boom has leveraged AWS’s unmatched portfolio
of services to accelerate the design and construction of its
aircraft, including XB-1 – the demonstrator airplane for Overture
and the world’s first independently developed supersonic aircraft –
which Boom unveiled on October 7, 2020.
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airliner, which will roll out in 2025 and fly to more than 500
transoceanic routes in half the time. (Photo: Business Wire)
Supersonic aircraft require a precise combination of
performance, structural stability, and safety that makes designing
them both resource and time intensive. With an on-premises
infrastructure, a design team would have to manage a large queue of
design iterations running one after the other, to find the right
balance. However, by tapping into the virtually unlimited scale of
AWS HPC resources, Boom can run thousands of advanced computer
simulations concurrently, far faster and more cost-effectively than
ever before possible, resulting in an estimated 6x increase in
productivity versus running these simulations in an on-premises
environment. In order to refine its design, conduct stress tests,
and simulate flight conditions for XB-1, Boom utilized more than 53
million compute hours on AWS with expectations to scale to more
than 100 million compute hours in order to complete design and
testing of its Overture airliner.
By going all-in on AWS, Boom is able to leverage AWS’s global
infrastructure and unmatched portfolio of services to manufacture
aircraft that meet security and compliance regulations while
delivering on its commitment to sustainability. Boom plans to use
AWS services, including capabilities in Internet of Things, machine
learning, compute, storage, security, managed database, and
analytics to build its 65-88-seat supersonic airliner and transform
the flight experience for passengers. In addition, Boom’s 525
terabyte repository of XB-1 design and testing data will be stored
in AWS, along with its core IT applications which will streamline
the company’s operations so it can focus on innovation. Boom also
plans to build a data lake for its manufacturing operations on
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and use AWS IoT services
including AWS IoT Core (a cloud service that lets connected devices
easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other
devices) to collect and process real-time data from its
manufacturing equipment. Leveraging AWS analytics and machine
learning services, Boom will gain deeper insights into its
manufacturing processes to inform future decision-making,
streamline workflows, and improve quality control.
In addition to developing its state-of-the art aircraft design,
which promises to be the next major innovation in high speed air
travel since jet airplanes were introduced more than 60 years ago,
Boom also plans for Overture to be the most passenger-centric
airliner in the world by offering passengers superior comfort,
tranquility, and productivity. To support this development, Boom is
exploring how AWS IoT and machine learning solutions can be used
inside the Overture cabin to reimagine the on-board experience for
both passengers and crew, looking at ways to customize passenger
messaging, deliver intelligent in-flight entertainment, create
wearables for crew members, and improve on-time departure
performance using live occupancy and equipment data.
“Boom is committed to making supersonic flight mainstream by
leveraging improvements in technology, sustainability, and
passenger experience. As we build the first supersonic airliner in
a new age of travel, AWS, the world’s leading cloud provider, will
help us continuously refine our designs without compromise so that
we can deliver a superior flight experience to the flying public,”
said Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic. “AWS’s
proven infrastructure and unparalleled portfolio of services are
helping us deliver a revolution in air travel.”
“Boom is taking a born-in-the-cloud approach to innovation and
embracing the breadth, depth, and performance of AWS to reinvent
commercial supersonic air travel,” said Teresa Carlson, Vice
President, Worldwide Public Sector and Regulated Industries at
Amazon Web Services, Inc. “We are thrilled to be collaborating with
Boom to leverage the cloud to launch the next era of travel. By
going all-in on AWS, Boom can innovate without bounds and more
quickly than was previously possible, to make the world more
accessible to everyone.”
About Amazon Web Services
For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over
175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases,
networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial
intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security,
hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and
application development, deployment, and management from 77
Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with
announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS
Regions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland.
Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups,
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power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To
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About Boom Supersonic
Boom Supersonic is redefining commercial flight by bringing
supersonic flight back to the skies with Overture. This historic
commercial airliner is designed and committed to industry-leading
standards of speed, safety, and sustainability. Boom’s vision is to
bring families, businesses, and cultures closer together through
supersonic travel and make the world dramatically more accessible.
Boom is the first commercial airplane manufacturer to commit to a
carbon-neutral flight test program and to build sustainability into
its entire aircraft program. XB-1, Boom’s supersonic demonstrator
aircraft for Overture, rolled out in 2020 and is poised for its
first flight in 2021. The company is backed by world-class
investors and has 30 aircraft on pre-order. Founded in 2014, Boom
has assembled a team of over 150 full-time employees who have made
contributions to over 220 air and spacecraft programs. For more
information, please visit https://boomsupersonic.com.
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