The software-defined vehicle (SDV) is being realized across today’s rapidly evolving automotive ecosystem. As software is becoming the key differentiator between competing OEMs, the role of the software developer is growing in importance. To enable this shift, challenges remain that can be most practically solved with existing cloud-native technologies for automotive. This whitepaper from Arm and Amazon Web Services (AWS) addresses how similar computing environments for the cloud and for execution in the vehicle can reduce cross-compilation and verification efforts—and speed development.