Introducing the AWS Well-Architected Connected Mobility Lens

Introduction

We are delighted to introduce the AWS Well-Architected Connected Mobility (CM) Lens. The CM Lens consists of a Lens whitepaper and a Lens JSON document which is now available in the Lens Catalog of the Well-Architected tool. The CM Lens extends the AWS Well-Architected Framework to provide architectural best practices for customers designing and operating Connected Mobility workloads on AWS. It is based on six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. The Lens provides a way for you to consistently measure your architecture against industry best practices, and help you identify potential areas for improvement. We believe that having well-architected systems can increase the likelihood of business success.

The CM Lens uses the AWS Well-Architected Framework to outline the steps for performing an AWS Well-Architected review for your connected mobility implementation. It provides you with a consistent approach to implement scalable designs, and identify and mitigate technical risks. The CM Lens covers common connected mobility implementation scenarios and identifies key workload elements to allow you to architect your vehicle edge and cloud-based applications and workloads according to the best practices that we have gathered from supporting customer implementations.

What is in the Connected Mobility Lens?

1. Connected mobility user stories and reference architectures: The CM Lens covers the scenarios that are common in many connected mobility implementations, how they influence the design, and a reference architecture for how these scenarios could be implemented.
2. Design principles to help improve security, operational excellence, and resiliency in the cloud: These principles include both general design principles for helping unlock the value of cloud and specific best practices for your AWS environments. For example, we propose a Security by Design (SbD) approach. SbD helps customers implement their architectures in repeatable templates that have control objectives, security baselines, and audit capabilities baked in. The CM Lens also provides specific guidance on how to implement this approach.
3. Guidance on optimizing cost of connected mobility implementations in the cloud: In the past connecting vehicles to the cloud was a premium feature and OEMs prioritized functionality over costs. Today with connected mobility expanding to all segments of vehicles, the focus has shifted to cost optimization. The CM Lens provides effective guidance on how to build enterprise grade solutions as well as optimize cost.
4. The CM Lens is available in the Lens Catalog: The CM Lens in the Lens Catalog will enable you to perform a Well-Architected Review on your connected mobility workloads in the AWS Well-Architected Tool, and provide you with a risk report for your workload as well as improvement plans to reduce risks and provide better performance, security, cost, and operation of your CM workloads.
5. Experience from the field: The CM Lens has been built with the hands-on knowledge of our most skilled engineers supporting strategic customers that implement connected mobility architectures in production environments.

Who should use the Connected Mobility Lens?

The CM Lens is useful for many roles, including:

• Business Leaders — to widen your appreciation of the end-to-end implementation and defining the success criteria of the Connected Mobility solution.
• Chief Technology Officers — to understand how to use the new AWS services and implementation guidance.
• Connected Mobility solution architects — to learn to build solutions according to the tenets of the Well-Architected Framework.
• Vehicle embedded engineers — to design vehicle edge according to the tenets of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Connected Mobility platform and operations team — to build, monitor, and manage innovative infrastructures that helps enable innovation, improves developer experience, and streamlines operations of connected mobility workload.
• Security team members – to incorporate security requirements in their Connected Mobility projects.

WirelessCar is the launch partner of the Connected Mobility Lens

WirelessCar, a partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN), provides digital services for connected cars, including in the areas of connectivity, journey intelligence, safety and security, electric vehicles, and shared mobility. On AWS, WirelessCar successfully connected millions of vehicles to the cloud and established the infrastructure necessary to support an ever-growing number of backend services.

WirelessCar is a launch partner of the AWS Well-Architected Connected Mobility Lens, wherein they reviewed the lens document and conducted a Well-Architected Framework review of their application using the Connected Mobility Lens.

“The AWS Connected Mobility Lens is a valuable collection of reference architectures helping WirelessCar solution architects and development teams to apply AWS services in scaling, resilient and cost effective-solutions. The Connected Mobility Lens displays a deep understanding of scenarios and use cases within Connected Mobility, which makes the proposed application of AWS services very much to the point and useful for WirelessCar developers.” – Anders Hultstein, Enterprise Architect, WirelessCar.

Conclusion

With the release of the Connected Mobility Lens, we encourage you to download and read the whitepaper, as well as conduct a Well-Architected Framework Review of your workload using the Connected Mobility Lens available in the Lens Catalog of the Well-Architected Tool. We also recommend that you study the preliminary resources listed in the document, like the AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper.

As you review the CM Lens, we would appreciate your comments and feedback to help us improve the connected mobility use cases, as the technology evolves. You can provide feedback by clicking the Provide Feedback link on the CM Lens introduction page. We continually refresh the content as we identify new best practices, requirements, and common scenarios that impact the automotive industry.

Special thanks to everyone across the AWS Enterprise Support, AWS Solution Architecture, AWS Professional Services, and AWS Automotive community, who contributed to the CM Lens. These contributions encompassed a wide cross-section of perspectives, expertise, backgrounds, and experiences in developing the new AWS Well-Architected Connected Mobility Lens.