Automotive Industry Case Studies

In this re:Invent 2019 presentation, Brian Kursar, CTO of Toyota Motor North America and Toyota Connected North America, discusses how Toyota created a secure, cloud-native solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to analyze billions of messages per day, using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) encryption to provide granular access and keep corporate assets secure with data segregation.

Mahindra Electric foresees a large scale adoption of electric vehicles in India by 2030. In this episode, learn how Santhosh and his team created NEMO, a cloud-based mobility platform that enables a new generation of shared, connected & electric services. Dive deep into how the team leverages Amazon Kinesis for real time data streaming, Amazon Athena and Amazon Glue to build advanced actionable intelligence around vehicle, charging and fleet performance. Santhosh also walks us through how to leverage a data lake on Amazon S3 and AWS Serverless architecture to build a new set of business models around shared mobility, while enabling fleet operators to seamlessly manage a fleet of electric vehicles.

In this special live segment of TMA, you’ll see what’s under the hood of Formula 1's F1 Insights. Hear about the machine learning algorithms they train on Amazon SageMaker and how they make inferences during races to deliver insights to fans.

Volkswagen Group is building its Industrial Cloud, a cloud-based digital production platform that will transform Volkswagen’s automotive manufacturing and logistics processes, on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Fleet Complete uses AWS to help fleet owners cut costs and reduce vehicle downtime, as well as expand its business faster by supporting more than 50 million requests daily.

Toyota Research Institute Advanced Development, Inc. (TRI-AD) uses AWS to keep pace with the accelerating development of automated driving, developing an automatic map generation platform on an AWS serverless architecture in just two months.

Part of the TRATON Group (previously Volkswagen Truck & Bus), RIO develops digital products that connect logistics and telematics data to offer shippers and carriers real-time visibility on their shipments. RIO collaborates with Volkswagen Group Logistics, which operates 18,000 truckloads across Europe daily. The company started in the cloud and is now embracing an Amazon Web Services (AWS)–first mentality, favoring solutions built on AWS over self-hosted ones.

Just as Volkswagen revolutionized personal car ownership, the group plans revolutionize its global operations, building the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud on AWS.

Autonomic's mission is to "Decode that data, normalize it, and put it in a single format so any user can take advantage of this clean, crisp developer-friendly data all in one place." To accomplish that mission, Autonomic built its Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC) on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

VWCO experiences agility in expanding compute resources, reliability and availability, and simplified management of SAP S/4HANA on AWS

The newest company in the Volkswagen Group, MOIA launched in December 2016. MOIA offers ridesharing services with its fully-electric fleet of vehicles, aiming to be one of the world's leading mobility service providers by 2025. The company started with a greenfield development and wanted to have a stable, cost-efficient platform—leading MOIA to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Data drives BMW’s personalized customer experiences, connected mobility solutions, and analytical insights. This session walks through the journey of building BMW Group’s Cloud Data Hub. BMW Group’s technical lead, Simon Kern, dives deep into how the company is leveraging AWS serverless capabilities for delivering ETL functions on big data in a modularized, accessible, and repeatable fashion and provides insight into the next steps of the journey. The services used in BMW Group’s AWS architecture are discussed, including AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon SageMaker, and more.

Edmunds chose to solve its data-access and visibility challenge using Amazon Macie (Macie), a new AWS analytical platform that helps protect user accounts and prevent data and intellectual-property theft.

WABCO has been providing commercial vehicle technology for more than 150 years. Its systems for braking, suspension, stability, and more, can be found on most commercial vehicles. For 25 years, the company has been helping fleet operators reduce inefficiencies in road transportation with telematics devices that collect data for better business decisions. Today, much of that decision-making is automated—a trend that will continue as vehicles and systems become more sophisticated and autonomous. The backend that supports this comprises 700 servers that monitor 160,000 connected vehicles, making 1 million data inserts a minute. As the autonomous and connected vehicle ecosystem grows, WABCO is moving to a more scalable infrastructure in the cloud that will support innovation in areas such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. In this video, Philippe Colpron, vice president and global leader, fleet solutions at WABCO, explains how Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies—such as AWS IoT Core and Amazon DynamoDB—helped the company halve its time to market and expand its portfolio with new products.

Elektrobit relies on AWS to realize rapid development cycles and drive innovation in the automotive software market. The company provides automotive manufacturers and suppliers worldwide with complete solutions to create infrastructures for networked vehicles, enable remote diagnostics and improve vehicle navigation and safety.

AiSIN AW is working on the development of advanced technologies for the next generation of automotive manufacturing, including those for electric vehicles and automatic driving assistance. The company looked into building a status-monitoring platform to utilize the enormous amount of data output from its production equipment. About two weeks after going live with the status-monitoring system built with AWS and Brains Technology, the company was able to avoid costs associated with extended downtime when the system detected abnormal conditions.

TRI-AD was founded in March 2018 via a joint investment between Toyota Motor Corporation, Denso, and Aisin Seiki. Through the advanced development of software for automated driving, the company has combined research and mass production to pioneer the field of automated driving.

Scania chose to partner with AWS for their cloud-first strategy,providing them with an agile, scalable, global innovation platform that allows them to quickly innovate new features and applications for their their customers and provides insights to internal stakeholders that drive business value.

Founded in 1899, Groupe Renault manufactures and sells 3.75 million cars and light commercial vehicles each year under five main brands.The automotive industry is changing. People are using more mobility services like ride-sharing apps, and those that own cars are buying more used vehicles. This represents a challenge to the business models of long-established automakers like Renault.The group has responded with a wide-ranging digital transformation, focusing more on services. Central to this transformation has been the use of Amazon Web Services, specifically Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Lambda, and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).In this video, Pierre Houlès, chief information officer for sales and marketing at Renault, explains how the group handled the challenge of decades of legacy technology and how a shift to DevOps changed the way the business operates. Plus, see how the success of Renault’s first project on the new platform increased sales conversion rates by 15X and customer contacts by 25X, giving the business the confidence to continue its cloud journey.

Founded in 1998, Scout24 is a leading operator of digital marketplaces for cars and real estate in Germany and other European countries. By running a data lake on AWS, Scout24 helps its teams stay agile, identify new use cases to enable its customers to make smart buying decisions, focus on their core business, and scale solutions cost-efficiently.

Volkswagen Group is setting up a cloud platform as a landing zone in AWS, using services such as AWS Direct Connect, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Route 53 for migrating and replatforming its existing on-premises backend, in-sourcing development, empowering internal teams, and transforming internal processes.

At the AWS Summit Berlin 2018, BMW Group presented a deep dive into the journey from an on-premises, monolithic application to a microservices-based platform in the cloud.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) combines the heritage of two iconic British automotive brands while continuing to innovate in a rapidly changing industry. Customers expect more autonomous, connected, and electrified vehicles, so Jaguar Land Rover is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to share its application programming interfaces (APIs) with trusted partners to innovate faster.In this video, Peter Virk, the company’s director of connected car and future technology, explains how the company is using AWS to integrate new, cloud-based technology into Jaguar Land Rover cars. For example, JLR has added Amazon Alexa features to vehicles, including the fully electric Jaguar I-PACE, so that customers can ask Alexa whether their car has enough range to complete their journey. Engineers are also using cloud-based analytics to improve battery performance, helping customers ensure batteries are fully charged for their journey.