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Boeing and AWS join forces to transform aerospace design and manufacturing

Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) and

Boeing have announced an expanded relationship that extends the aerospace leader ’ s existing cloud operations and streamlines Boeing ’ s approach to cloud computing . Boeing will migrate applications out of on-premises data centers to AWS and create a technology foundation that will strengthen engineering and manufacturing processes . AWS will power new and existing
Boeing digital applications to unlock valuable insights to drive product innovation , more efficient operations , and improved customer support . Beyond the cloud relationship , Amazon Air has grown its fleet to more than 110 Boeing aircraft to facilitate the movement of goods to Amazon customers worldwide .
“ Today ’ s announcement represents a significant investment in Boeing ’ s digital future . Our work with AWS will help us advance Boeing ’ s people , products , and services by enabling everyone with the latest tools , technology and expertise ,” said Susan Doniz , Boeing Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Data Analytics .
“ Our cloud strategy removes infrastructure restraints , allowing for more ownership within teams , simplifies our processes , creates easier and more secure access to information , and empowers our people to perform their best .”
Boeing is a leading global manufacturer of airplanes and space systems , with aerospace engineering at the heart of its operations . This collaboration with AWS expands the company ’ s current cloud operations and allows Boeing to take advantage of AWS ’ s infrastructure .

Cloudflare teams up with open-source community to create new API standards for future applications

Cloudflare , the security , performance , and reliability company helping to build a better Internet , has announced that it is collaborating with Deno and individual core contributors of the Node . js open-source project , bringing together three of the largest JavaScript environments , to give developers flexibility and choice while creating the standards of the future of Edge Computing .

2017 , more than 450,000 developers have built on Cloudflare ’ s developer platform and more than three million applications have been launched ,” said Matthew Prince , Cofounder and CEO of Cloudflare . “ But we know we ’ re not going to be the only one . We think that standards are important to driving the industry forward . That ’ s why we ’ re proud to be working with these other organizations in the serverless computing space to help define the standard for edge – what we believe will be the standard by which the applications of the future are developed .”
By collaborating around a common set of standards , the effort will aim to ensure code developed in one environment will work in another . Any developer will be able to write and run code conforming to the set of standards – and easily transfer it – between Cloudflare Workers , Deno and Node . js seamlessly and without the need to rewrite an application .
“ Cloudflare Workers has helped to define the standard for Edge Computing . Since
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