Valeo and AWS (Amazon Web Services) announced today at CES 2025 that they are collaborating to help revolutionize the era of software-defined vehicles (SDVs) by helping to enable faster and more efficient development, testing, and validation of distributed vehicle software stacks. The partners say it would benefit vehicle domains like advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), infotainment systems, and autonomous mobility—and help drive the development of new end-user functionalities that improve the driving experience.

“Valeo is focused on empowering its customers as they navigate the industry’s transformation toward software-driven mobility,” said Marc Vrecko, CEO of Valeo Brain division. “By working with AWS, we are creating new services that will dramatically improve efficiency and reduce the cost of software development cycles for our customers, making it easier for them to lead in this area and set new standards for automotive innovation.”

Valeo will bring its expertise in automotive software development, middleware, software-oriented architecture, and HPC (high-performance computing) for centralized computing architectures. AWS will offer support through cloud services for AI (artificial intelligence), compute, data management, analytics, and innovation mechanisms like “working backwards” as well as reference architectures and solutions for virtual engineering, ADAS, and SDV.

“The use of cloud and AI technologies is helping to accelerate innovation and invention occurring throughout the automotive industry,” said Ozgur Tohumcu, General Manager of Automotive and Manufacturing at AWS. “Through this collaboration, AWS will support Valeo as they continue developing even faster and more efficient SDV solutions for their customers.”

The first three solutions that Valeo announced during CES as part of the collaboration—Valeo Virtualized Hardware Lab, Valeo Cloud Hardware Lab, and Assist XR—will support all steps of the SDV transformation along the automotive development chain.

Valeo Virtualized Hardware Lab enables car manufacturers to test software on virtualized electronic control units (vECU) and sensor models (VESM), accelerating the development cycle of ECU software by up to 40%. Potential benefits of the flexible development and testing environment include a significant reduction in user development costs and faster software feature releases.

The company intends to make the Valeo Virtualized Hardware Lab available on AWS Marketplace in Q1 2025. The solution will allow automotive engineers to deploy vECU and VESM hosted on AWS in a few minutes into any customer workbench.

For the next phase of testing when hardware is needed, the Valeo Cloud Hardware Lab is the first hardware-in-the-loop as-a-service (HILaaS) solution, according to the company. The solution will allow automotive customers to access Valeo’s managed large-scale HIL test systems from an AWS-hosted workplace. It will facilitate the collaboration of global teams and provide a comprehensive solution for accelerating the development and validation of automotive software functions by enabling an end-to-end software development workflow of autonomous mobility in the cloud.

Valeo will use the data and AI services provided by AWS to enable solutions for new end-user functions like Assist XR, a remote services solution designed to help enhance the driving experience. The application extends the capabilities and efficiency of remote assistance by collecting and analyzing real-time vehicle and environmental information for quicker and streamlined support, roadside assistance, and vehicle maintenance.

To further strengthen the collaboration between both companies, Valeo announced today that it has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN), a global community of partners that leverages AWS technologies, programs, expertise, and tools to build customer solutions and services.