Samsung Heavy Industries Selects AWS as its Preferred Cloud Provider
August 08 2018 - 4:30PM
Business Wire
One of the largest shipbuilders in the world
develops its next-generation autonomous smart ship systems on
AWS
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Samsung Heavy Industries selected
AWS as its preferred cloud provider to support its digital
transformation. Samsung Heavy Industries is turning to AWS’s
expansive infrastructure, unmatched performance, scalability, and
industry-leading services to gain competitive advantage in the
smart shipping industry. Samsung Heavy Industries leaves the heavy
lifting of its infrastructure to AWS, the world’s leading cloud, so
that its team can rapidly innovate on its autonomous shipping
platform, a system that enables self-piloting of large container
ships, LNG carriers, and floating production systems. Samsung Heavy
Industries will continue to expand its smart shipping capabilities
using the breadth and depth of AWS’s services, including machine
learning, augmented reality and virtual reality, analytics,
databases, compute, and storage.
Samsung Heavy Industries’ next-generation smart shipping systems
on AWS leverage a wide variety of services, including Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database
Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Simple Storage Solution (Amazon S3),
AWS Key Management Service (KMS), and AWS CloudTrail to create
integrated systems for all vessel-related data collected from land
to sea. AWS enabled Samsung Heavy Industries to build a big data
analytics ship navigation system using Amazon Redshift which
improves after-market customer service for ship owners. Samsung
Heavy Industries also leverages AWS machine learning services,
including Amazon Polly and Amazon Lex, to provide real-time alerts
to its customers about the condition of their ships, and will use
Amazon Sumerian to create a virtual replica of the ship cockpit for
land-based training and simulations. In addition, by using AWS,
Samsung Heavy Industries was able to build an information security
management system to respond to cyber threats and is able to
provide a highly scalable, secure environment for smart ship
technology development, becoming the first Korean smart ship maker
to meet compliance requirements of the American Bureau of Shipping
(ABS).
“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,” said Dongyeon
Lee, Director of Ship & Offshore Performance Research Center at
Samsung Heavy Industries. “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.”
“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,” said Mike Clayville, Vice
President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. “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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