Leading global automotive company with solutions for consumers,
dealers, manufacturers, lenders, and consignors selects AWS to transform
the way the world buys, sells, and owns cars
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 4, 2018--
Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), announced that Cox Automotive Inc. is moving its infrastructure
to AWS—going all-in on the world’s leading cloud. Cox Automotive is
already running several business-critical applications on AWS, and will
migrate the majority of its more than 20 brands—including Autotrader,
Dealer.com, Dealertrack, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim, vAuto, and Xtime—to
AWS. By going all-in on AWS, Cox Automotive will be able to close more
than 40 data centers, and adopt modern delivery and operational best
practices to become a more agile organization.
Cox Automotive is breaking down its various monolithic architectures
using fully managed services such as Amazon Elastic Container Service
(Amazon ECS), AWS Lambda, and Amazon Aurora. Additionally, as the
company continues to modernize its architecture with AWS, it is testing
new AWS services like Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
(Amazon EKS) and AWS Fargate which will allow Cox Automotive to run
containers without having to manage servers or clusters. AWS’s broad and
deep set of cloud services is also enabling Cox Automotive to build a
companywide, federated data lake on Amazon S3 that will collect data and
surface insights across all of its brands to simplify processes,
minimize friction, and enable the smart, connected, and enjoyable
experience that all car buyers and sellers expect. Cox Automotive is
putting AWS machine learning capabilities, such as Amazon Rekognition
and Amazon SageMaker, into the hands of its engineering and operations
team members to create intelligent products, automate processes, and
innovate new ways for consumers to identify and purchase vehicles.
“The agility, flexibility, and breadth of functionality that AWS
provides has enabled us to quickly migrate, innovate, and scale so that
we’re able to meet the demands of our rapidly growing ecosystem and
clients,” said Bryan Landerman, Executive Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer at Cox Automotive. “Our goal is to modernize our
existing products and deliver new cloud-based solutions to consignors,
lenders, manufacturers, dealers, and consumers that make the car buying,
selling, and owning processes easier than ever before. AWS empowers us
to get to market quickly, massively scale, and expand our global
footprint. We’ve already moved several core solutions to AWS including
Autotrader.com, KBB.com, and our real-time advertising bid platform. In
addition, we developed a vehicle valuation Alexa skill and have
been able to rapidly prototype to advance our auction modernization
strategy. And that’s just the beginning—we have big plans to drive more
innovation as we continue to move the vast majority of our
infrastructure to AWS.”
“The process of buying, selling, and trading cars has been around for
more than a century, but the landscape has dramatically changed. Top
organizations in the space like Cox Automotive are embracing the change
and using the cloud to transform their businesses,” said Mike Clayville,
Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. “By going
all-in on AWS, Cox Automotive is taking advantage of the world’s leading
cloud to move fast, increase agility, and innovate so they can introduce
new applications and services to delight vehicle buyers and sellers
globally.”
About Amazon Web Services
For over 12 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 125
fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking,
analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet
of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality
(VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 54 Availability Zones (AZs) within 18 geographic regions
and one Local Region around the world, spanning the U.S., Australia,
Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea,
Singapore, and the UK. AWS services are trusted by millions of active
customers around the world—including the fastest-growing startups,
largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—to power their
infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more
about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.
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About Cox Automotive
Cox Automotive Inc. makes buying, selling and owning cars easier for
everyone. The global company’s 34,000-plus team members and family of
brands, including Autotrader®, Dealer.com®,
Dealertrack®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®,
NextGear Capital®, VinSolutions®, vAuto® and
Xtime®, are passionate about helping millions
of car shoppers, 40,000 auto dealer clients across 100+ countries and
many others throughout the automotive industry thrive for generations to
come. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a
privately-owned, Atlanta-based company with revenues exceeding
$20 billion. www.coxautoinc.com
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