Case Study: Samsung Heavy Industries achieves a three-month faster S.FLEET launch and improved scalability and security with Amazon Web Services

Launched S.Fleet platform three months quicker on cloud vs. on-premises

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), a leading shipbuilder with more than 1,000 vessels delivered since 1974, developed a next-generation SmartShip platform comprising the onboard S.VESSEL and the onshore S.FLEET fleet-management system. The company needed to converge ship operations and ICT—handling large, continuous data from sensors, GPS, cameras and navigation systems—while providing scalability, high availability, strong cybersecurity, and an environment for rapid development and deployment of new SmartShip services.

SHI moved development to AWS rather than on-premises, building a data lake on Amazon S3 and using EC2, RDS, VPC peering, Elasticsearch, KMS/CloudTrail and analytics tools (Redshift, Polly, Lex) to secure, scale and accelerate the platform. The cloud-based approach let SHI launch S.FLEET three months faster, focus on R&D, deploy services to nine-plus ship owners, obtain ABS cybersecurity certification faster (saving up to six months of man-hours), and continue developing advanced features such as 3D digital twins.

Samsung Heavy Industries

Jaewoo Kim

Senior Researcher, Shipbuilding and Maritime Research Institute