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Cruise
AVs such as this Cruise
Origin slated for
service in Dubai, will be
deployed globally and
require a worldwide
network to manage
and update capabilities.
computing requirements via virtualized software environments. Data and requests can come from anywhere
on the planet and be managed from equally separated
servers. Cloud computing systems are maturing concurrently with AV development in a confluence that is
helping to speed many AV engineering processes.
The cloud's scalability aspect is vital, particularly
in a field expanding as swiftly as vehicle connectivity/
autonomy. " I can have this infrastructure available to me
and I don't need to construct it, " explained William Doyle,
an enterprise-level software engineer and VP of product
development at Connecticut-based Medtel. " I can provision a new machine or a thousand new machines without
worrying about vendors, without worrying about procurement, delivery, installation, having my own computer
room, security. Everything that goes around having your
own set of machines in-house goes away when you use
the cloud, because somebody else is handling it. "
The cloud's advantages do not stop at hardware,
as the software is equally flexible. " The second piece of
this, software-as-a-service [SaaS], is where companies
are building applications on the web and everything's
hosted there, " Doyle continued. " The data's hosted,
the application's hosted, everybody can access it. I can
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start off with one customer, and when I get to my thousandth customer, it's no issue for me to scale. "
One of the best things the cloud provides is elastic
infrastructures, he added. " I can grow and my servers
will grow, automatically deploying based on the loads
I'm seeing, " Doyle said.
AWS as first mover
Amazon kicked off this paradigm shift in computing
resources more than a decade ago with its Amazon Web
Services (AWS) cloud-computing network, a forwardlooking offshoot of its exploding retail growth. AWS
now operates globally in 61 zones across 20 geographic
regions on each inhabited continent save Africa.
Ramping up swiftly to challenge AWS in both capability
and market share are Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle
and Alibaba, with automakers already harnessing these
cloud-based capabilities via connected-car services.
Ford announced the expansion of its connected-vehicle collaboration with AWS in April 2019, not
surprising considering the two entities already are
linked via their investments in Rivian and upcoming
electrified-vehicle delivery platforms. This growing
relationship includes Ford Mobility subsidiary and
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