Rethinking AWS Cloud and Platform Engineering for Digital Acceleration
A presentation at AWS for Industries Symposium in in Helsinki, Finland by Bruno Amaro Almeida
Rethinking AWS Cloud and Platform Engineering for Digital Acceleration April 22, 2024 Bruno Amaro Almeida VP, IT Operations AWS for Industries Symposium: Helsinki
Fortum Digital Development: Energy Optimization, Sustainability, Electric Mobility Generation, Trading and Asset Optimization District Heating, Recycling & Waste Consumer Solutions Enterprise Solutions 2 … … Innovation & Venturing
Single Cloud Operating Model Business App B App A App C IAM Network 3 Product X AI & Data Team DevOps Team Experiment X Platform Products, Services & Competences Data Platforms Fin & Cost Manag. IT Service Managers Service X CloudOps APIs & Integration Security I&V Team
Asset Data Platform (ADP) Cross-business central solution that enables effective resource and data utilization. Few examples: – Real-time SCADA data integrations from all Wind parks for wind energy production optimization and automated analytics & performance reporting – Value Based Maintenance solutions for Hydro with digital tools and data, for example for anomaly detection and real time monitoring. – Real time data collection and delivery between multiple operative systems in Finland H&C systems – Providing weather and production data for Data Science solutions, such as for heat demand forecasting, weather modeling and production optimization modeling. ADP Hydro 4 ADP Platform
Core IT Applications x Digital Development Business Core IT Digital Development App B App A Platform Products, Services & Competences App C IT Service Owners SOC Rapid Development Hub CloudOps & Platform Engineering APIs & Integration AI & Data Team SWD Team Experiment X LowCode / NoCode Data Engineering Data Science Network Data Platforms Software Development IAM Solution Architecture / Advisory DevSecOps & SRE End User Services 5 Product X BI & Analytics Service Management Cyber Security Service X Quality Assurance Virtual and Lean Governance, Risk and Compliance steering I&V Team
Developing our Platform Engineering Capabilities • Tech Radar’s • Builders Library and Templates • Core IT & Digital Development Handbook • API Catalog • Digital Project Catalog & Discovery • Metrics (e.g. DORA, SLAs, SLOs) • Self-service Cloud & Tools Provisioning • … 6
Re-thinking our User Experience • Design the user journey (empathize, define) 💚 – Identify problematic and/or time consuming areas • Explore self-service and automation (ideate, prototype) 🛠 – Done is better than perfect – Balance short-term with long-term CloudFormation ref templates (e.g. Innovation Sandbox) 7 baseline module - network info - IAM - … SW Team IT Ops
The volatility in the power system is growing Increasing costs for the consumer, u2lity & grid
• Spring is a demand response aggregator and operator within Fortum. We connect various consumption-side assets and batteries to our platform and provide this harnessed capacity to various energy markets, including ancillary services, via Fortum’s trading system. 9 • Hiven is a startup company, part of the Valkea Growth Club portfolio. Hiven is an intelligent energy management solution for a smarter, cheaper and greener way to consuming energy. Hiven provides services for consumers, manufacturers, and energy retailers.
You can play a major role in making energy cheaper, greener and smarter HIVEN HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT solu%on is a combina%on of three services: CONNECTIVITY ENERGY OPTIMIZATION FLEXIBILITY TRADING ELECTRIC VEHICLES ENERGY TARIFF OPTIMIZATION TSO ANCILLARY SERVICES EV CHARGING CO2 MIX OPTIMIZATION DSO MARKETS OR SLA’s HEAT PUMPS SOLAR OPTIMIZATION BRP BALANCE OPTIMIZATION DIRECT ELECTRIC HEATING V2G ENERGY TRADING SOLAR PV & HOME BATTERIES Create value for your business, customers and the energy system
Hiven integrates with your existing products and connect your customers with the energy system Hiven is a B2B2C back-end provider for steering energy consumption in a smarter way. The customer and the B2C product is always owned by our partners. CONSUMER TARIFF ( Op<mizing + V2H) OEM app HIVEN ALGORITHMS GRID CO2 DATA FLEXIBILITY TRADING (V1G, V2G) EV for smart steering From integration to product in 2 months or less!
Case example: Hiven - energy management partner for Wallbox Wallbox owns the customer and the B2C product. Two products are offered to fit all charger types and regulatory environments: V1G where charging is scheduled for savings with start/stop functionalities for demand response. V2X will be added later where applicable. Wallbox app V1G: VARIABLE PRICE OPTIMIZATION V1G: START/STOP DEMAND RESPONSE Walbox charger V2G & V2H EV connection Hiven is responsible of steering single chargers and aggregating into a larger demand response pool (V1G and V2G). Hiven takes the capacity to the market and covers market entries, prequalification’s and TSO trading needs to take assets to the market across Europe at first.
Questions & Answers Bruno Amaro Almeida VP, IT Operations brunoamaro.com
