Key results
The company
Siemens
siemens.comIndustrial automation, smart infrastructure, and energy technology provider.
Result highlights
- 590M+ monthly AI authorization calls
The story
A global industrial technology company operating in over 200 countries across infrastructure, transportation, and healthcare sectors.
An explosion of employee interest in generative AI generated thousands of experimental ideas, but traditional hard-coded authorization logic could not scale to secure them. Managing complex roles for users and administrators within the codebase created technical debt and slowed the delivery of new features.
The organization developed a centralized platform that abstracts authorization complexity entirely out of the application code. A custom authorizer on AWS Lambda intercepts requests and validates them against centralized policies stored in Amazon Verified Permissions using the Cedar language. This decoupled architecture allows developers to manage granular access for AI agents and shared workspaces without altering the core software.
Scope & timeline
- 150,000 registered employees on AI platform
- 80,000 monthly active internal AI users
Quotes
“In tech, everything is—or should be—around agility. But the AI space is nonlinear and highly unpredictable. We don’t know where the next innovation is going to come from.”
Implementation partner
FNTIO
fntio.comHelped Siemens implement the SiemensGPT platform and complex authorization for its AI agents.