CARIAD operates and develops on the biggest car cloud backends in the world. With the Volkswagen Group, the company has successfully enhanced service capabilities across over six diverse car platforms, showcasing our versatility and commitment to innovation in the automotive industry. Over 30 million vehicles are registered on our platform, underscoring our services’ extensive reach and impact. The platform, which has been operating since 2011, is continuously developed, and maintained by 14 dedicated DevOps teams, leveraging the infrastructure of AWS to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance. Serving over 300 million requests per day, the platform demonstrates exceptional capacity and efficiency. This presentation will delve into the strategic approaches employed to integrate these platforms, highlighting key achievements and the challenges we overcame. It will also explore specific cases of complexity and provide an in-depth analysis of the platform’s scalability, which ranks among the largest worldwide. Additionally, the session will share the lessons learned throughout this journey and encourage a dialogue on how the design of Software-Defined Vehicles can benefit from these insights.

In this presentation, you will gain valuable knowledge on:

• How to maintain standards of quality and customer satisfaction across a broad spectrum of products
• How a multi-platform strategy for refactoring legacy architectures in SDV transitions is driving growth and setting new benchmarks in the automotive sector
• Ways to integrate emerging technologies within existing automotive systems
• Alignment of agile development with evolving architectural demands