AUTOMOTIVE · CLOUD · EDGE

The vehicle is now a distributed application. The cloud is part of the car.

Software-defined vehicles do not stop at the bumper. OTA campaigns, V2X PKI, MEC inference, federated ML, regulator disclosure pipelines, fleet-wide digital twins. We design and operate the cloud that holds it all together, with the cryptographic agility to outlive the next ten years of standards.

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WHY THIS MATTERS NOW

The software-defined vehicle is a cloud product.

Three industry shifts are happening at once. Each one alone would justify rebuilding your cloud. Together, they are the reason every OEM CTO is rewriting their architecture diagram.

SHIFT 01

From hardware to subscription

Feature unlocks, performance upgrades, ADAS subscription tiers, in-vehicle commerce. The revenue surface has moved into the cloud. Every entitlement is a cryptographic claim that has to be verified at the edge, audited centrally, and respected by every regional jurisdiction.

SHIFT 02

From annual cycles to weekly releases

OTA cadence is the new differentiator. Tesla ships features in two-week cycles. Legacy OEMs are catching up. That cadence requires CI/CD that signs vehicle binaries, staged rollouts that respect telematics-driven cohorts, and rollback paths fast enough that a regression never reaches a full fleet.

SHIFT 03

From private to regulated

UNECE R155 / R156, ISO/SAE 21434, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, GDPR territoriality, NIS2, and now post-quantum migration mandates from BSI, NSA, and CISA. The cloud is not just a delivery vehicle. It is the evidence chain that proves compliance under audit.

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Three planes. One platform.

Edge runs in the vehicle and at the roadside. Regional respects data residency and regulator boundaries. Global serves OEM-wide analytics and governance. The same control plane spans all three, with cryptographic agility built in from day one.

Automotive cloud reference architecture PLANE 01 · EDGE In-vehicle compute and roadside infrastructure In-vehicle HPC ADAS / cockpit / gateway SDV stack · containers Adaptive AUTOSAR Telematics 5G / LTE-M modem eUICC, remote SIM 3GPP V2X PC5 Secure Element HSM, key material Boot chain, attestation PQ-ready firmware slot Roadside Unit DSRC / C-V2X Local CRL distribution MEC anchor MEC compute Latency-critical inference HD map fragments <20 ms p95 Charging / depot ISO 15118-20 Plug&Charge Fleet provisioning PQ session ready PLANE 02 · REGIONAL Sovereignty boundary · GDPR · data residency · regulator gateway Vehicle ingest PQ-mTLS termination 10⁶ vehicles · 5 PB / day Stream -> bronze lake Regional SCMS Cert issuance & CRL Pseudonym shuffler Hybrid / PQ root OTA pipeline Signed delta artefacts Staged rollout · canary Rollback < 60 s VSOC region SIEM + ML detection PSIRT routing Quarantine actuators Regulator gw RTA, KBA, NHTSA Disclosure pipeline UNECE R155 §7 PLANE 03 · GLOBAL OEM Federated analytics · OEM-wide governance · digital twin Federated data lake Cross-region query Differential privacy Digital twin Fleet behaviour simulation Pre-prod validation ML training Federated learning ADAS model lifecycle Cryptographic agility Algorithm registry Hot-swap key material Audit ledger Append-only · WORM 7-yr retention

CAPABILITIES

What an OEM cloud actually needs.

01

OTA at scale

Signed delta artefacts, staged canary cohorts, telematics-driven release gates, sub-minute rollback.

02

V2X PKI hosting

SCMS / CCMS cert issuance, pseudonym pools, CRL distribution, hybrid and PQ-ready roots.

03

MEC inference

Latency-critical ML at the edge, HD map fragments, ADAS model serving, p95 under 20 ms.

04

Federated learning

Cross-region model training without moving sensitive data, differential privacy budgets enforced.

05

Plug & Charge

ISO 15118-20 sessions with PQ-ready certificate provisioning, fleet onboarding automation.

06

Digital twin

Fleet-wide simulation for OTA pre-validation, scenario replay, and ML regression testing.

07

Crypto agility

Versioned algorithm registry, hot-swap key material, hybrid certs, FIPS 140-3 KMS.

08

Audit ledger

Append-only WORM evidence store, seven-year retention, regulator-grade export pipelines.

HYPERSCALER POSTURE

We are cloud-agnostic, not cloud-naïve.

AWS for Automotive, Azure Mobility, Google Automotive Services. Each has real strengths and real gaps. We design the reference architecture once and implement it on whichever platform your sovereignty, latency, and procurement constraints select. The control plane abstracts the choice so you keep portability.

AWS

IoT FleetWise, Greengrass, IVS, Outposts at regional MEC anchors. Strong on data lake density.

Azure

Connected Vehicle Platform, Mobility, sovereign clouds. Strong on regulator integrations.

Google

Automotive Services on-vehicle, Vertex ML, BigQuery for fleet analytics. Strong on ML lifecycle.

HOW WE ENGAGE

A platform partnership, not a slide deck.

PHASE 01 · WEEKS 1-2

Architecture review

We map your current state across edge, regional, and global planes. We identify the cryptographic surface, the regulatory exposure, and the OTA risk concentration. Output: a target-state diagram and a gap register.

PHASE 02 · WEEKS 3-12

Foundation build

We deploy the regional ingestion plane, the OTA control plane, the SCMS / CCMS host, and the audit ledger. Each component is built crypto-agile from day one, with hybrid PQ-ready key material.

PHASE 03 · ONGOING

Run & evolve

We operate the platform alongside your team, train your engineers, and evolve the cryptographic posture as standards move. Fixed monthly engagement. Documented handover at any time.

CLOUD FAQ

Questions platform teams ask us

What are the three planes of the automotive cloud architecture?

The reference architecture spans three planes under one control plane. Edge runs in the vehicle and at the roadside for latency-critical work. Regional respects data residency and regulator boundaries, hosting certificate issuance, OTA pipelines, and disclosure. Global serves OEM-wide federated analytics and governance. The same control plane spans all three, so an event is verified at the edge, audited centrally, and respected by every regional jurisdiction.

How does OTA at scale work, and how fast is rollback?

OTA campaigns ship signed delta artefacts through a staged, canary rollout rather than a single fleet-wide push. When a campaign misbehaves, rollback runs at a p95 under 60 seconds, which keeps a bad release from becoming a fleet-wide incident. OTA cadence is the differentiator: the architecture is built for weekly release cycles rather than annual ones.

Is the cloud architecture post-quantum ready?

Yes. Crypto agility is built into the platform rather than retrofitted: PQ-ready firmware slots at the edge, hybrid or post-quantum roots for the regional SCMS, and PQ-ready provisioning sessions. This lets an OEM migrate signing and session cryptography to post-quantum schemes without re-architecting the control plane.

How does the platform support ISO/SAE 21434 and R155 evidence?

Regulator disclosure is a first-class pipeline, not an afterthought. The architecture carries an audit ledger and disclosure pipelines aligned to UNECE R155 and NHTSA expectations, with events audited centrally so the evidence trail holds across regional jurisdictions and over the retention period.

START WITH THE ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

Two weeks. A real target state.

Fixed scope. Fixed price. At the end, you have a target architecture, a sequenced plan, and a clear picture of which parts of your existing stack to keep, replace, or evolve. No retainer obligation.

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