Better together: AWS and Software Defined Automation

Software Defined Automation’s PLC Management and Code Versioning solution is a single source of truth for all your PLCs across different vendors, providing visibility into code changes, easy code retrieval and backups. Increase your factory security with advanced role-based user management and reduce dependencies on proprietary control hardware through PLC virtualization on standard IT servers.

Software Defined Automation’s SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution is natively built on Amazon Web Service to take advantage of its security, reliability and scalability by using several managed serverless services such as Amazon Cognito for Identity and access management or Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Timestream and Amazon S3 for data management. Core services are implemented by microservices running in Amazon Lambda fronted by REST APIs provided by Amazon API Gateway. Many other managed services such as Amazon SNS, Amazon, SQS, AWS Step Functions and Amazon Appstream 2.0 to name a few enable us to focus on what matters, our customers, rather than on undifferentiated heavy lifting needed to build a robust infrastructure.

We decided to build Software Defined Automation as a cloud-native service from day one. Amazon Web Services, with its track record of security and reliability but also pace of innovation, was the perfect partner for success. As of today, we are using more than 30 AWS services to provide robust solutions at a pace we could have only dreamt of in the pre-cloud era. As an example, by leveraging Amazon AppStream 2.0 we could implement the IDE-as-a-Service feature in record time and integrate seamlessly with the other solutions in our stack. Automation engineers can now access the right version of IDE in seconds, with no need to install and maintain software on their local machines. With this tight integration between Amazon AppStream 2.0 and SDA platform, automation engineers can now manage the entire lifecycle of PLC projects in a secure and reliable environment.

Dr. Josef Waltl,

Founder and CEO of Software Defined Automation