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Amazon Web Services continues to be on a tear, with Pinterest’s recent IPO prospectus revealing a commitment to spend $750 million on AWS through 2023. Now automaker Volkswagen has tapped AWS to developed what it calls the “Volkswagen Industrial Cloud”. The agreement is a multi-year one that’ll involve combination of data of machines, systems and plants from all Volkswagen’s 122 facilities.

Volkswagen is adopting a portfolio of AWS services including internet of Things (IoT), machine learning analytics and compute services for this effort. The company says the platform it aims to create will “standardize and simplify” exchange of data between its automotive systems and plants. Such platform will aid in deployment of technologies like robotics and analysis of production processes. The platform Volkswagen is creating will also be made open to other industrial companies.

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“Volkswagen’s and AWS’s collaboration will have a profound impact on efficiency and quality in production throughout Volkswagen’s global supply chain, as Volkswagen gains access to the broadest and deepest cloud with the most functionality, the most innovation, the highest performance and security, and the largest community of partners and customers of any other infrastructure provider‎…..” AWS CEO Andy Jassy said in a statement.

“…We are tightly aligned across Volkswagen’s businesses to help them reimagine the future of automobile manufacturing by taking advantage of all the benefits the cloud can deliver.” Jassy said.

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