I want to objectively take a brief look at what we’re offered by AWS for those who actually want to take advantage of 5G in their products and services, either right now or in the near future. 5G is indeed a revolutionary technology which will open brand new paths for putting all the information out there to use, it’s likely to bring the adoption of Artificial Intelligence to the very fabric of society, but I doubt if most executives out there have a clear plan for utilizing this technology with the existing tools out there. Since working with 5G will require using Cloud-based services for most companies, I think it will be a good idea to start with AWS, which is the largest of the hyperscalers.

AWS’s point of view

In his speech at AWS re:Invent 2000 on 5G, Mickey Iqbal, Solutions Architect at AWS, remarks that the most important problems CSPs need to solve for bringing applied 5G to the field are transport needs, complexity of orchestration, virtualization and, of course, monetization. According to him AWS’s solutions for those are providing microservices patterns, stateless architectures, DevOps based tooling, API based programmable architecture patterns, and containers. A bit too non-specific, if you ask me.

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