AWS Is Now Samsung’s Preferred Cloud Partner

Samsung, One of the Largest Shipbuilders, Globally, Chose AWS to Build Futuristic Technology for Its Business. Samsung Intends to Build Next-Level Autonomous Ships by Collaborating with AWS

Amazon announced that its company AWS and Samsung will join hands for the latter’s digital transformation.

Samsung wants a headstart in the smart shipping market. In order to achieve this, Samsung will leverage Amazon’s-

• Highly Capable Infrastructure
• Unparallel Performance
• Scalability
• Industry-progressive Services

Samsung will be relying on AWS to lift heavy Infrastructure loads. Samsung expects AWS to begin work rapidly on its vision of building autonomous ships. Samsung wants to develop self-piloting ships that can carry extremely heavy cargo.

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Samsung is hopeful that it can develop long-standing business relationships with AWS. Samsung is incorporating the following AWS capabilities-

• Machine learning
• Augmented reality
• Virtual reality
• Analytics
• Databases
• Compute
• Storage

Currently, Samsung is utilizing the following AWS capabilities for building data related systems –

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
• Amazon Simple Storage Solution (Amazon S3)
• AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
• AWS CloudTrail

As for the navigation system that AWS is building for Samsung, AWS is using Amazon Redshift. Amazon Polly and Amazon Lex are being used to derive real-time insights via Machine Learning. Amazon is also creating a virtual ship cockpit by deploying Amazon Sumerian capabilities.

AWS will be transforming Samsung to be the first Korean company that will be compliant to American Bureau of Shipping Standards. AWS will be building Security systems that respond to cyber threats. Ultimately, AWS wants to create a highly scalable and extremely secure technology to support Samsung’s ambitious plans.

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Dongyeon Lee, Director of Ship & Offshore Performance Research Center at Samsung Heavy Industries said, “We’re digitizing our shipping fleet by using the most advanced technologies in the world to enhance our approaches to shipbuilding, operations, and delivery, and chose AWS as our preferred cloud provider to help us quickly transform Samsung Heavy Industries’ into a cloud-first maritime business. By leveraging AWS, we’ve successfully released several smart shipping systems so that our customers can manage their ships and fleets more efficiently, and we continue to test new capabilities for ocean-bound vessel navigation and automation. AWS delivers a highly flexible environment, with the broadest and deepest portfolio of cloud services, that is ideal for accelerating research and development across the company, and it has enabled our developers and data scientists to bring new ideas to market at an unprecedented pace.”

Mike Clayville said, “Leading companies in the industrial space are choosing AWS for the best performance, highest availability, greatest scalability, and an unmatched set of services that enable them to evolve their unique businesses in the cloud. We’re excited to be fueling Samsung Heavy Industries’ digital transformation, providing them with the services and expertise to rapidly innovate on behalf of their maritime customers and establish a cloud-first strategy on AWS. Their autonomous and smart shipping systems built on AWS will not only enhance their competitive edge but also bring significant advances to the worldwide shipping industry. We look forward to continuing to support Samsung Heavy Industries on their journey with AWS.”

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