AWS’s Automotive OS and its Role in the Software-Defined Vehicle Transition

The automotive industry is undergoing a significant paradigm shift, with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) accelerating their in-vehicle software delivery using innovative approaches such as cloud-based workflows and automotive operating systems (OS). This shift is driven by customer demand for vehicles to be more connected, autonomous, shared, and electric (CASE).

The Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) is a key enabler of this transformation, allowing OEMs and their suppliers to build and support CASE-specific features such as digital cockpit, advanced driver assist systems (ADAS), and autonomous driving (AD). AWS’s Automotive OS looks like it can be a crucial component of this transition, providing a platform that abstracts the complex network of ECUs in a vehicle as one device, thereby accelerating cloud-first development and verification.

What is AWS’s Automotive OS?

AWS’s Automotive OS is an operating system designed specifically for the automotive industry. It abstracts the complex network of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) in a vehicle as one device, managing, supervising, and updating this one device. It provides harmonized application programming interfaces (APIs) against which functions are developed, thereby accelerating cloud-first…