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If you build safety-critical software for vehicles, you know the feeling. A design review clears on Tuesday, but the hardware bench is booked for weeks. The team slices features into spreadsheets while the calendar eats your runway.

At IAA Mobility 2025, Elektrobit announced at the AWS theater that EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications is now available as an Amazon Machine Image on AWS.

In practical terms, it means your next safety-ready Linux environment starts in minutes inside your own cloud account, without downloads, installation, or dedicated hardware. It is scalable and available 24/7, around the world leveraging AWS leading cloud infrastructure. Your first experiment does not wait for a bench, a shipment, or a slot on a rack. It starts the moment you decide to build.

 

AWS availability: built for speed and flexibility

The AMI brings EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications to where your teams already work. You launch it in your AWS environment, you control access, and you plug it straight into your CI and CD pipelines. Because it runs on an EC2 instance with ARM compute cores, the environment mirrors the architecture that sits inside modern vehicles.

That makes early prototyping more honest and later validation more efficient. Global teams can log in, push code, review results, and iterate together without waiting for lab time or shipping hardware between sites. The promise is simple and direct: instantly launch your automotive safety-ready Linux OS on AWS.

 

Who benefits?

If you are an OEM or Tier 1 exploring software-defined vehicle programs, you get a fast way to stand up a safety-ready Linux base and prove architectural choices before procurement cycles begin. If you lead functional safety, you can trial an environment aligned to ISO 26262 ASIL B expectations and plan workflows that keep compliance and velocity in the same lane. If you run DevOps, you can use familiar AWS services to automate build, test, and release, treating safety-related code with the same discipline and repeatability you bring to everything else. If you manage programs and budgets, you can de-risk adoption by validating feasibility early instead of betting on slideware. And if you sit in research and development, you can prototype stacks for ADAS, domain controllers, or SDV initiatives without waiting for scarce benches.

 

Powering progress with the cloud

Moving safety work to the cloud changes the tempo of development. You start the same day you decide to evaluate. You keep safety front and center with a platform backed by a positive technical assessment for ISO 26262 ASIL B and maintained long term by Elektrobit for security and stability. You keep your options open with an open-source foundation tailored for automotive workloads, including containers and an update-ready design for over-the-air delivery. Most importantly, you align your cloud and in-vehicle worlds so the software you exercise in AWS is the software you expect to ship, reducing drift and cutting rework when the program moves from proof of concept to production.

 

Under the hood: the basics

EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications is based on Elektrobit’s industry first approach to run safety critical workloads on one of the leading open-source operating systems in the world. The solution is based on a long-term supported Linux kernel together with a microkernel-based hypervisor. The EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications partition delivers everything an automotive software developer needs to run its first safety critical application natively on Linux. An EB corbos Linux partition for non-safety workloads is also included to enable mixed-criticality designs on the same platform.

Container support is first class, so teams can structure services cleanly and test boundaries early. The update architecture is ready for secure delivery workflows, which means you can practice the way you intend to operate in the field. Because the image runs on an EC2 instance with ARM compute cores, you evaluate on cloud machines that reflect the silicon you target in-car, closing the gap between a prototype that looks good on paper and one that behaves correctly in practice.

 

What this looks like in the real world

Imagine a team launching a new driver monitoring feature. In the past, the plan started with waiting for a specific evaluation board, then asking lab operations for time, then coordinating with safety to find a test window.

Now the plan begins by launching the AMI, cloning the repository, and connecting the pipeline. The safety lead reviews assumptions against ISO 26262 goals while developers containerize services. The systems architect experiments with partitioning decisions inside the hypervisor. DevOps sets up tests that run overnight on fresh instances.

By Friday the team has a working slice, complete with logs, artifacts, and evidence that map cleanly to future compliance needs. No one had to queue for a bench. No one had to ship a kit. Everyone saw progress immediately, and that momentum carried into the next sprint. And if you need a second setup, just deploy it, on AWS, on ARM, worldwide available.

 

From showcase to hands-on

If you missed the announcement at the IAA, you can dive in right now. Contact us to be among the first to experience it. Start prototyping today and see how quickly an idea turns into a working environment. For further information on EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications, please visit our product page.

Keep an eye out for the upcoming co-branded video with AWS and hear directly from the teams behind it. The road to safety-critical software does not have to be slow or uncertain. With a cloud-first start and an automotive-ready Linux base, you can get moving today and stay confident all the way to production.