Amazon is heavily marketing AWS ro automotive R&D teams. They want them to run their software on Graviton nodes for near-hw performance. And they have virtio-e

Amazon is heavily marketing AWS ro automotive R&D teams. They want them to run their software on Graviton nodes for near-hw performance. And they have virtio-everything interfaces for you to use so your core functionality can be tested in AWS and you have some kind of hypervisor to partition and/or abstract the real HW interfaces. A "software defined vehicle" [1]. Those R&D teams spend a small fortune on devboards with each new generation and only use them for ~a couple years or so. So renting time on AWS is appealing because it's not depreciating capital and because they can be more flexible in how they adjust spending to suit development cycle phases where they need more/fewer concurrent units. Having freertos allows them to have credible experts in the space their customers are working in, and they can make design changes to freertos to suit this SDV concept. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/automotive/software-defined-vehicle/ https://aws.amazon.com/automotive/software-defined-vehicle/