How Volkswagen Autoeuropa built a data mesh to accelerate digital transformation using Amazon DataZone

This is a joint blog post co-authored with Martin Mikoleizig from Volkswagen Autoeuropa. Volkswagen Autoeuropa is a Volkswagen Group plant that produces the T-Roc. The plant is located near Lisbon, Portugal and produces about 934 cars per day. In 2023, Volkswagen Autoeuropa represented 1.3% of the national GDP of Portugal and 4% in national export of goods impact with a sales volume of 3.3511 billion Euros. Volkswagen Autoeuropa aims to become a data-driven factory and has been using cutting-edge technologies to enhance digitalization efforts. In this post, we discuss how Volkswagen Autoeuropa used Amazon DataZone to build a data marketplace based on data mesh architecture to accelerate their digital transformation. The data mesh, built on Amazon DataZone , simplified data access, improved data quality, and established governance at scale to power analytics, reporting, AI, and machine learning (ML) use cases. As a result, the data solution offers benefits such as faster access to data, expeditious decision making, accelerated time to value for use cases, and enhanced data governance. Understanding Volkswagen Autoeuropa’s challenges At the time of writing this post, Volkswagen Autoeuropa has already implemented more than 15 successful digital use cases in the context of real-time visualization, business intelligence, […]

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