Automotive Industry Case Studies

TrueCar , working with AWS Advanced Consulting Partner CorpInfo, has gone all in on AWS, migrating workloads and thousands of virtual machines from physical data centers to the AWS Cloud and streamlining development and test tasks to serve its customers faster and more cost-effectively. TrueCar provides a digital automotive marketplace that offers comprehensive pricing transparency about what other people paid for their cars while enabling consumers to engage with TrueCar Certified Dealers who are committed to providing a superior purchase experience.

Using AWS CodeCommit, Edmunds.com developers have a scalable, highly available source-control service that reduces costs and simplifies administration. Edmunds.com is an online car-shopping destination, serving nearly 20 million visitors each month. After evaluating several Git hosting solutions, Edmunds.com migrated its source code repositories to the cloud on AWS CodeCommit.

Lyft is the fastest growing rideshare company in the United States and is available in more than 200 cities, facilitating 14 million rides per month. Lyft uses AWS to move faster as a company and manage its exponential growth, leveraging AWS products to support more than 100 microservices that enhance every element of its customers' experience.

The BMW Group is using AWS for its new connected-car application that collects sensor data from BMW 7 Series cars to give drivers dynamically updated map information. BMW Group is one of the leading manufacturers of premium cars and mobility services in the world, with brands such as Rolls Royce, BMW, and Mini. BMW built its new car-as-a-sensor (CARASSO) service in only six months using Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

WebMotors, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, hosts a website on which users can post and browse through classified ads to buy and sell vehicles. The company migrated its website to AWS, improving its performance by 45 percent, saving $100,000, and enabling it to scale up to meet the needs of more than 20 million unique visitors per month.

WirelessCar is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volvo Group and is the world's leading provider of automotive telematics services. The company has developed its own delivery engine—a test and development environment for its own software—based on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The company can now scale test and development environments up and down according to requirements, and can make better-informed business decisions as a result.

EasyTaxi's mobile platform enables customers to find and hire taxis quickly in more than 30 countries around the world. The company turned to AWS to host its mobile application and store taxi drivers' documents. By using AWS, the company can support more than 300,000 requests per minute to its API and conduct text searches on billions of indexed documents.

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. manufactures luxury super sports cars in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy. When the company's outdated website and infrastructure needed an update, Automobili Lamborghini chose AWS to bring a new website online in less than one month, supporting a new product launch that generated a 250 percent increase in website traffic.