Ajit Kolhe from AWS on sustainability & automotive solutions
Ajit Kolhe from AWS on sustainability & automotive solutions
Ajit Kolhe is the World Wide Partner Lead for Automotive at AWS . He works with Partners to build and scale market differentiating solutions to solve customers ’ unique business challenges .
AWS ( Amazon Web Services ) is the world ’ s most broadly adopted cloud platform , offering over 200 fully-featured services from data centres . Ajit Kolhe is the World Wide Partner Lead for Automotive .
“ I ’ m responsible for working with Partners to build and scale market differentiating solutions to solve customers ’ unique business challenges ,” Kolhe explains . “ Our automotive customers consist of four sub-industries within AWS : original equipment manufacturers ; tier one suppliers ; AutoTech / startups ; and auto dealers . These include customers such as Toyota , Continental , Uber , MOIA , and Cox Automotive .”
Automotive industry solutions
AWS ’ partnership with TCS dates back to 2009 . “ It ’ s been a great journey – TCS is a strategic global system integrator and premier consulting partner in AWS ’ partner network .”
Together , AWS and TCS have been focused on migrating critical workloads and transforming IT , with the two having had over 700 customer engagements .
“ AWS has evolved the cloud adoption framework , placing emphasis on business outcomes which aligns with TCS ’ strategy ,” says Kolhe .
Over the last two years , the team has built several solutions applicable in the automotive industry , including TCS Autoscape™ which covers autonomous vehicles , ADAS scenarios , connected vehicle solutions , software defined vehicles and TCS Clever Energy™ for sustainability . AWS contributes to innovation with TCS and has a roadmap of seven TCS solutions that will help to solve customers ’ business imperatives .
According to Kolhe , the success of such a partnership can be characterised as an alignment around customer obsession , thinking big and mutual trust .
“ We have both earned trust in our relationships and have alignment across both organisations which spans across the customer engagements ,” says Kolhe .