Case Study: Mercedes-Benz accelerates automotive innovation with Microsoft Azure

Mercedes-Benz R&D creates 'container-driven cars' powered by Microsoft Azure

Mercedes-Benz R&D was looking for a faster, more flexible way to build and coordinate its vehicle software, moving away from custom hardware constraints toward a container-driven car architecture. The challenge involved speeding up development across microservices while coordinating APIs and DevOps work across teams, platforms, and regions, using Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Azure helped Mercedes-Benz R&D implement a container-based architecture and DevOps approach that improved software development speed and collaboration across teams. The result was a more scalable, modern vehicle software platform built on Microsoft Azure, enabling Mercedes-Benz to innovate faster with containers and microservices.

Mercedes-Benz

Thomas Spatzier

Cloud Architect