Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) on AWS: From Migration to Innovation

Publication date: September 20, 2021 (Document history)

Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is a modern approach to the conventional practice of document-based systems engineering. MBSE benefits from modern cloud computing technologies, microservices, AI/ML, advanced analytics and others.

These technologies not only enable broad adoption of MBSE by engineering organizations, but also go beyond the current prospects of MBSE and bring innovation, flexibility, scalability and cost optimization. MBSE has been recently adopted by aerospace, energy, and automotive customers and growing in other industries where complex products - made of multitude of engineering disciplines and collaboration - are required to design, build, test, sustain and monitor the whole product lifecycle through their lifecycle.

AWS provides both building block technologies and solutions tailored to your needs. This whitepaper addresses both MBSE developers who develop MBSE technologies and MBSE users who use MBSE tools. It also provides introductory information about MBSE and its challenges for newcomers to this technology.

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The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you understand the pros and cons of the decisions you make when building systems in the cloud. The six pillars of the Framework allow you to learn architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems. Using the AWS Well-Architected Tool, available at no charge in the AWS Management Console, you can review your workloads against these best practices by answering a set of questions for each pillar.

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