Cloud-driven enterprise transformation at the BMW Group

This article discusses the cloud-driven transformation of business applications at BMW Group, enabled by their strategic collaboration with AWS.

Specifically, the article covers:

• The six accelerators BMW used to drive their cloud transformation journey: reorganizing teams around products and value streams, building an effective enablement and support model with AWS Partners, orchestrating cloud initiatives with a future-state software development platform, establishing a seamless onboarding process for teams, maintaining security compliance at scale with reusable infrastructure code modules, and aligning cloud infrastructure operating models to the new business model.
• How BMW established a pilot phase to prove the migration approach, then scaled learnings and accelerators to other business domains, resulting in over 350 applications transitioned to containers on AWS in 2022.
• The target cloud infrastructure models adopted by BMW: Amazon EC2 for VM-based workloads, containerized apps on Amazon EKS and AWS Fargate, simple lift to containers on Amazon ECS and Fargate, and serverless with AWS Lambda.
• The benefits of this transformation, including faster innovation, more informed decisions by business owners, and easier deployment of microservices by DevOps teams.