By Paul Lienert and Ben Klayman
Amazon Internet Companies has launched a brand new cloud-based knowledge service that might assist automakers remotely diagnose points of their autos to stop recollects and enhance security, in addition to handle associated knowledge, the corporate informed Reuters.
Known as AWS IoT FleetWise, the most recent software within the firm’s newly branded AWS for Automotive portfolio of services and products for the transportation trade is being rolled out on Tuesday at Amazon.com Inc’s annual re:Invent convention in Las Vegas.
FleetWise permits clients, together with auto suppliers and transportation suppliers, to gather, arrange and switch car knowledge to the cloud, whereas standardizing totally different knowledge codecs to simplify knowledge evaluation, in keeping with Mike Tzamaloukas, normal supervisor of AWS for Automotive.
“As autos grow to be extra clever and superior, the sheer quantity of information produced from autos outfitted with cameras, lidars and radars is rising exponentially,” Tzamaloukas mentioned in an interview. FleetWise was developed to permit clients “to simply entry fragmented knowledge throughout the totally different fleet fashions and car sorts,” he added.
FleetWise additionally was designed to enrich data-driven companies supplied by automakers, together with Normal Motors Co’s OnStar and Ford Motor Co’s Ford Professional Intelligence, he mentioned.
The brand new service joins a broad vary of in-vehicle and cloud-to-vehicle choices from AWS for Automotive and 185 enterprise companions, in keeping with Dean Phillips, worldwide tech chief for the enterprise unit.
With a larger deal with the trade’s rising shift to software-defined autos and methods, “we’re attempting to make it less complicated and simpler for our clients to find options to their issues,” he mentioned, citing growth of self-driving vehicles and “digital buyer engagement,” together with streamed companies.
The AWS portfolio contains cloud-based computing, knowledge storage, analytics and software growth.
Whereas Amazon doesn’t get away the worth of its automotive cloud companies enterprise, the corporate’s AWS unit continues to develop.
In 2020, AWS reported working revenue of $13.5 billion on gross sales of $45.4 billion, up 47% and 30% respectively from the earlier 12 months. Via the primary 9 months of 2021, regardless of the continuing pandemic and international supply-chain disruptions, AWS’s progress was much more strong: $13.2 billion in working revenue on $44.4 billion in gross sales, practically matching its full-year leads to 2020.
In keeping with Synergy Analysis Group, greater than 60% of the $45 billion in enterprise cloud companies spending within the third quarter was funneled to 3 giant tech corporations: Alphabet Inc’s Google, with 10%, Microsoft Corp with 20%, and AWS with 33%.
On Tuesday, AWS, one of many largest consumers of information heart processors, additionally launched new customized computing chips aimed toward serving to its clients beat the price of utilizing chips from Intel Corp and Nvidia Corp.
