AWS re:Invent 2025 - From Ground to Cloud: CAE Innovates with AWS & Red Hat (HMC203)

Summary of AWS re:Invent 2025 - From Ground to Cloud: CAE Innovates with AWS & Red Hat (HMC203)

Partnership between AWS and Red Hat

• The partnership between AWS and Red Hat dates back to 2008 when the first version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux was made available on EC2.
• Key offerings include:
  • Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) - a fully managed OpenShift platform that minimizes operational overhead.
  • Integrated services that allow using AWS offerings like S3 and RDS directly from ROSA.
  • Consolidated billing and 99.95% SLA for the ROSA platform.
• Other joint offerings include Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization in the cloud.

CAE's Journey to the Cloud and AI

Aviation Industry Challenges

• CAE is the world's largest civil aviation training service provider, training over 150,000 pilots annually.
• The aviation industry is facing rapid growth in demand for pilots, with a 2.4x increase expected by 2024.
• Customers have high expectations for personalization, prediction, and customization in applications.
• Increasing regulatory compliance and pressure to reduce costs while improving quality.

CAE's Transformation Approach

• Modernized to the cloud with AWS to remove technical debt and consolidate on a single platform.
• Adopted Red Hat OpenShift as the standardized platform to deploy applications consistently across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments.
• Focused on building four key capabilities:
  1. Technological capabilities to innovate faster with developers
  2. Operational model transformation to a product-based approach
  3. Upskilling employees on new technologies
  4. Building data and AI capabilities as a foundational layer

Leveraging OpenShift and AWS

• Deployed OpenShift across 8 global cloud regions to be closer to customers.
• Leveraging OpenShift to deploy AI models at the edge and in simulators.
• Using platform engineering to standardize developer workflows, provide self-service capabilities, and leverage AI for code generation and security.
• Accessing over 2,000 pre-built AI models through the cloud to accelerate innovation.

Business Impact

• 40% reduction in infrastructure costs by implementing Red Hat OpenShift.
• Up to 40% improvement in deployment time and frequency.
• Faster feedback loops and more efficient pull requests, enabling a faster innovation cycle.
• Upskilling 2,500 developers globally through partnerships with AWS and Red Hat.

Conclusion

• CAE's 75+ years of experience in the aviation industry requires constant transformation to keep up with growing demand, customer expectations, and technological complexity.
• By modernizing to the cloud, adopting Red Hat OpenShift, and building data and AI capabilities, CAE is able to accelerate innovation, improve operational efficiency, and deliver an integrated training ecosystem for its customers.