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Title
BMW Group builds CLEAI, a generative AI assistant for cloud cost optimization on AWS
…mption for informed cost optimization. To further enhance its cloud efficiency, BMW Group partnered with AWS Professional Services to develop CLEAI—a Generative AI (GenAI)-powered assistant integrated into the CLEA expert tool.…
Description
BMW Group's FinOps Center of Excellence, with AWS Professional Services, built CLEAI, a generative AI assistant inside its CLEA cloud cost tool. Users ask in natural language about cloud costs and metadata, get optimization recommendations drawn from AWS documentation and BMW's internal FinOps knowledge base (RAG with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases), and get generated Terraform, CLI and Python code. The source states it supports more than five thousand users and speeds up analysis and implementation by up to 50%.
…s of all AWS skill levels to foster cost optimization of their cloud workflows. Today, CLEAI supports more than five thousand BMW Group users in their cloud optimization efforts, accelerating analysis and implementation of cloud infrastructure optimization by up to 50%. Through natural language conversation, CLEAI provides actionable insights, iden…
…analysis and implementation of cloud infrastructure optimization by up to 50%. Through natural language conversation, CLEAI provides actionable insights, identifies cost savings opportunities, and generates step-by-step implementation guidance and underlying code (CLI commands, Python scripts, Terraform) following BMW Group and AWS best practices. This blog post provides (1) an over…
Company
BMW Group
…mption for informed cost optimization. To further enhance its cloud efficiency, BMW Group partnered with AWS Professional Services to develop CLEAI—a Generative AI (GenAI)-powered assistant integrated into the CLEA expert tool.…
Country
Germany
…mbda , AWS Step Functions , Industries Permalink Comments Share The BMW Group , headquartered in Munich, Germany, employs 159,000 people across more than 30 production and assembly facilities…
Region
Europe
…mbda , AWS Step Functions , Industries Permalink Comments Share The BMW Group , headquartered in Munich, Germany, employs 159,000 people across more than 30 production and assembly facilities…
Industry
Automotive
…people across more than 30 production and assembly facilities in 15 countries. As an automotive innovation leader, BMW Group has been at the forefront of integrating Generative AI (GenAI) technology. Its GenAI applications already streamline daily processes and boost the product…
Problem
BMW Group's cloud environment grew from 4,500 AWS accounts in 2023 to over 10,000 in 2025. Navigating complex cloud environments to understand costs and resource usage can be a significant bottleneck.
…treamline daily processes and boost the productivity of thousands of employees. The BMW Group manages a vast cloud environment, growing from 4,500 AWS accounts in 2023 to over 10,000 in 2025. To ensure optimal cloud usage and cost efficiency, BMW Group’s Financial Operat…
…any organization using AWS. CLEAI in Action 1. Cloud Cost and Metadata Analysis Navigating complex cloud environments to understand costs and resource usage can be a significant bottleneck. CLEAI transforms this experience by enabling users to retrieve granular cost in…
Solution
BMW Group's FinOps Center of Excellence partnered with AWS Professional Services to build CLEAI, a generative AI assistant integrated into its CLEA cloud cost tool. It uses several specialized LLM chains (API, conversational, clarify and retrieval) behind an intent classifier. The retrieval chain runs RAG on an Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases setup with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless as vector store, populated with AWS best practices and BMW Group internal information. Users ask in natural language and also get generated Terraform, CLI commands and Python scripts.
…Experience To precisely address the diverse FinOps use cases and user intents, CLEAI leverages an architecture built upon several specialized LLM chains. These chains are the backbone of our solution, enabling it to interpret complex…
…to CLEAI’s ability to provide intelligent recommendations, guidance, and code. This chain orchestrates a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) process, utilizing an Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases powered by Amazon OpenSearch Serverless as its vector store. This knowledge base is populated with both general AWS best practices and speci…
Business value
The source states CLEAI supports more than five thousand BMW Group users and accelerates analysis and implementation of cloud infrastructure optimization by up to 50%.
…s of all AWS skill levels to foster cost optimization of their cloud workflows. Today, CLEAI supports more than five thousand BMW Group users in their cloud optimization efforts, accelerating analysis and implementation of cloud infrastructure optimization by up to 50%. Through natural language conversation, CLEAI provides actionable insights, iden…
AI capabilities
Generative AI, Conversational AI
…efficiency, BMW Group partnered with AWS Professional Services to develop CLEAI—a Generative AI (GenAI)-powered assistant integrated into the CLEA expert tool. This solution enables users of all AWS skill levels to foster cost optimizatio…
…analysis and implementation of cloud infrastructure optimization by up to 50%. Through natural language conversation, CLEAI provides actionable insights, identifies cost savings opportunities, and generates step-by-step implementati…
Technology
Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, LangGraph
…d code. This chain orchestrates a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) process, utilizing an Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases powered by Amazon OpenSearch Serverless as its vector store. This knowledge base is populated with both general AWS best practices and spec…
…ins that power CLEAI: API Chain At the heart of CLEAI’s data interaction is the API chain, built upon LangGraph. This chain starts when our intent classifier identifies a user’s need for spec…
…l subsequent interactions. 2. Websocket connection: The websocket connection is managed by the websocket_connection_handler AWS Lambda function. This function is dedicated to handling crucial Websocket connection events, sp…
…specifically CONNECT and DISCONNECT actions. Critically, it also synchronously triggers the AWS Step Function “Prompt Factory”, initiating the process of preparing the system for user input…
…estration: To improve response times, we cache essential account information in tailored prompts stored in Amazon DynamoDB at the beginning of each session. The Prompt Factory State Machine is the centr…
Deployment model
Cloud
…oud FinOps at BMW Group, and (2) a technical deep dive on CLEAI implementation. The solution is industry agnostic and applicable to any organization using AWS. CLEAI in Action 1. Cloud Cost and Metadata Analysis Navigating complex cloud en…
Deployment options
cloud
…oud FinOps at BMW Group, and (2) a technical deep dive on CLEAI implementation. The solution is industry agnostic and applicable to any organization using AWS. CLEAI in Action 1. Cloud Cost and Metadata Analysis Navigating complex cloud en…
Headline outcome
…ts more than five thousand BMW Group users in their cloud optimization efforts, accelerating analysis and implementation of cloud infrastructure optimization by up to 50%. Through natural language conversation, CLEAI provides actionable insights, ide…
Use case type
Conversational assistant
…efficiency, BMW Group partnered with AWS Professional Services to develop CLEAI—a Generative AI (GenAI)-powered assistant integrated into the CLEA expert tool. This solution enables users of all AWS skill levels to foster cost optimizatio…
