Ryanair adds Google Cloud to its dual-cloud flight plan

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Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat

Ryanair has signed a five-year agreement with Google Cloud covering AI, productivity tools and multi-cloud infrastructure, just weeks after renewing its deal with rival AWS for another five years.

The Irish budget airline says it will deploy Google Workspace and Google Cloud services across its 35,000-strong workforce as it pursues a target of 300 million passengers a year by 2034.

We asked how much this deal is worth, but Google declined to say and Ryanair did not respond.

The rollout includes the Mountain View firm's Gemini Enterprise agentic AI platform, which Ryanair intends to use to automate some decision-making, optimize flight crew logistics, and improve staff productivity. The airline will also use Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve to refine algorithms and WeatherNext for forecasting and maintenance planning.

Ryanair renewed its agreement with AWS for another five years on July 27, making AWS and Google Cloud the two pillars of what the airline itself calls its dual-cloud resilience strategy.

Google says the dual-cloud setup will allow critical systems to switch between providers if one suffers an outage, helping keep flight operations, and customer services running.

Under the renewed AWS agreement, Ryanair will continue using services including Amazon Quick, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for workloads ranging from its website to operational planning across a fleet of 647 aircraft.

Reg readers may recall that AWS and Google Cloud were touting a jointly developed multi-cloud connectivity service at the end of last year. This links Google's Cross-Cloud Interconnect with AWS Interconnect, allowing customers to set up a private high-speed link between resources they have running on the two cloud platforms.

"Ryanair is on an incredible growth journey to 300 million passengers by 2034. To support this growth, we need to ensure we have excellent infrastructure resilience, and our new dual-cloud strategy provides this," commented the airline's CEO, Eddie Wilson.

"We are thrilled to be Ryanair's AI transformation partner," stated Maureen Costello, Google Cloud VP for UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa.

"This agreement demonstrates how deploying generative AI at scale – coupled with modern collaboration tools for frontline workers – can help industry leaders scale securely, reduce operational costs, and redefine the travel experience." ®