Amazon Web Services has partnered with German automotive supplier Aumovio to accelerate self-driving vehicle development. The companies announced the strategic agreement at CES 2026 in Las Vegas.
AWS will become Aumovio’s preferred cloud provider for autonomous driving development. The partnership integrates agentic and generative AI capabilities into vehicle validation workflows.
Aurora Trucks First to Benefit
The collaboration will first support Aurora’s planned deployment of driverless trucks at scale from 2027. Aurora launched the industry’s first commercial autonomous trucking service last year between Dallas and Houston.
Aumovio supplies the hardware platform for Aurora’s self-driving system. The company also provides a separate fallback system designed to stop trucks safely if the primary driver fails.
Aurora has since expanded to a second Texas lane connecting Fort Worth and El Paso. The company works with truck makers Paccar and Volvo Trucks North America.
AI Solves Critical Development Bottleneck
Developing self-driving vehicles requires processing massive amounts of data daily. Engineers must validate systems against millions of road scenarios, driver behaviors, and safety situations.
Traditional methods meant spending weeks manually searching through driving data. The new AI tools allow engineers to ask questions in plain language instead.
Engineers can now request specific scenarios like pedestrians entering roadways at night in rain. The system delivers instant results and surfaces rare edge cases for further testing.
Amazon Bedrock Powers the Platform
The partnership leverages Amazon Bedrock for AI capabilities. The platform helps identify critical safety patterns and improves vehicle hazard detection.
Solutions that traditionally took years can now be developed much faster. The AI processes massive data floods to extract actionable insights efficiently.
AWS General Manager Ozgur Tohumcu emphasized the shift from research to commercial deployment. The collaboration reflects broader industry movement toward practical autonomous freight applications.
Aumovio’s Industry Position
Aumovio was spun off from German tire maker Continental in September 2025. The company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as an independent entity.
Its products include sensors, displays, braking systems, and driver assistance technologies. The company also provides architecture supporting software-defined vehicles.
Ismail Dagli, Executive Board member at Aumovio, called the AWS collaboration a cornerstone strategy. The partnership combines cloud infrastructure, AI capabilities, and automotive expertise.
Level 4 Validation Challenges
Jeremy McClain, head of system and software at Aumovio, explained the validation complexity. Level 4 autonomous systems must behave correctly in extremely rare real-world situations.
Finding these edge cases in massive datasets proves very difficult without AI assistance. The new tools dramatically reduce the time required to identify critical scenarios.
Industry-Wide Implications
Automakers worldwide have invested billions in AI systems powering self-driving technologies. The sector has faced numerous technical challenges delaying widespread deployment.
This partnership signals accelerating commercialization particularly in freight transportation. Trucks operating on predictable highway routes present easier deployment targets than urban robotaxis.
The collaboration combines Aurora’s operational experience with Aumovio’s hardware expertise and AWS’s cloud scale. Large-scale production of the industrialized Aurora Driver begins in 2027.
