Volkswagen Group on AWS

VW Credit Inc. reduced the time necessary for customers to access their account information by building an Alexa skill using AWS serverless technology. The captive finance company for Volkswagen Group of America realized that accessing account information through its online portal or call center took a long time and required a great deal of manual effort. Using AWS services such as AWS Lambda, VW Credit Inc. built an Alexa skill that lets its customers perform critical account functions, such as paying bills or checking balances, using their phones or Alexa-compatible devices. By developing this solution, VW Credit Inc. has streamlined account access for over 1,000 customers.

The Volkswagen Group manufactures about 11 million cars per year and brings 200 million parts per day into its factories—a massive scale at which to operate an effective global supply chain. Volkswagen is working with AWS to move its 124 factory sites to a single architecture: the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud. As a next step, the Group will integrate Volkswagen’s global network of more than 1,500 suppliers into the Industrial Cloud. The company uses AWS machine learning services—running algorithms using information gathered from sensors on the shop floor—and AWS Outposts.

The Volkswagen Group is working to become a leading provider of sustainable mobility with its "TOGETHER - Strategy 2025" program. A key element of this program is the Group’s One Digital Platform (ODP), which provides a holistic digital ecosystem connecting Volkswagen vehicles with customers, Volkswagen mobility services, and partners. The Volkswagen Group is setting up a cloud platform on AWS, using services, such as AWS Direct Connect, AWS Lambda, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Route 53, to migrate and re-platform its existing on-premises backend, empower internal teams, and reduce time-to-market.

MOIA, launched in December 2016, is the newest company in the Volkswagen Group. The company offers ridesharing services through a fully electric fleet of vehicles and aims to be one of the world's leading mobility service providers by 2025. According to Moritz Siuts, director of engineering at MOIA, the company started with a greenfield development and wanted to have a stable, cost-efficient platform—leading MOIA to AWS. Using AWS, MOIA can easily scale while also maintaining the flexibility to apply insights from collected data back into MOIA’s platform for continuous optimization.

Acquired by the Volkswagen Group in 2018, WirelessCar is a world-leading provider of automotive telematics services. In this video, Tomas Carfalk, chief architect and chief technology officer of WirelessCar, discusses how the company's congestion charge service, powered by AWS, accelerates digital business models for car manufacturers by enriching vehicle journey data. 

Part of the TRATON Group, RIO develops digital products that connect logistics and telematics data to offer shippers and carriers real-time visibility into 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 AWS-first mentality, favoring solutions built on AWS over self-hosted ones. RIO uses AWS to create an open, scalable, and agile unified cloud platform for transportation and logistics management on which everyone in the supply chain can connect.

For its cloud-first strategy, Scania chose AWS to provide it with an agile, scalable, global innovation platform that would allow Scania to quickly develop new features and applications for its customers and provide insights to internal stakeholders.

Part of TRATON and one of the largest truck & bus manufacturers in South America, Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus chose to deploy SAP S/4HANA, hosted on AWS, as its new enterprise resource planning system.

Consumers are increasingly starting their car-buying process online. To stay at the forefront of technological development and exceed consumer expectations, Audi is revolutionizing the car-shopping journey across digital channels and within dealerships by providing shoppers with an immersive experience powered by virtualization and 3D rendering.

Volkswagen Group Research sought to improve its simulation and design cycles and chose to run a proof-of-concept on AWS using Altair ultraFluidX. Based on the success of that effort, Altair has estimated that Volkswagen could reduce its current hardware costs up to 70 percent using ultraFluidX.