The Volkswagen Group on AWS

[2024]Over the years, organizations have invested in creating purpose-built, cloud-based data lakes that are siloed from one another. A major challenge is enabling cross-organization discovery and access to data across these multiple data lakes, each built on different technology stacks. Volkswagen uses AWS to make the process simple while keeping the data consistent, secure, and well-governed.

[2024] Global premium automotive manufacturer AUDI AG (AUDI) helps customers and dealers customize the perfect configurations of its vehicles with its online car-configurator tool. This essential part of the car-buying process is available in over 30 markets worldwide, but AUDI’s monolithic, on-premises infrastructure made it inefficient and complex to maintain. By migrating to Amazon Web Services (AWS), AUDI improved the scalability, performance, and cost of its tool.

[2019] The Volkswagen Group brings 200 million parts per day into its factories—a massive scale at which to operate an effective global supply chain. Volkswagen Group is using AWS to move its 124 factory sites to a single architecture, the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud. As a next step, the Group will integrate the company’s global network of more than 1,500 suppliers into the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud. The company uses AWS machine learning services—running algorithms using information gathered from sensors on the shop floor—and AWS Outposts.

[2022] Transportation company Scania had top-of-the-line on-premises servers, but it could not scale enough to keep up with the growing amount of messaging data from its vehicles. Its fleet grew and continues to grow quickly; by the last quarter of 2022, the fleet of trucks that could exchange data with Scania numbered more than 500,000. For 3 years, Scania underwent a complete redesign of its data network, migrating its servers from on premises to AWS. Using products like AWS Lambda, Scania could scale as much as it needed with lower latency and better security.