Category: AWS Direct Connect

AWS is the first Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to join the Sheltered Harbor Alliance Partner Program and has developed a Sheltered Harbor vaulting architecture to provide participating financial institutions with a blueprint and guidance on building-out their Sheltered Harbor compliant and certifiable cloud-based data vault (DV) with native AWS services. AWS’s resilient infrastructure, security capabilities, […]

Introduction In “Your Telecom Cloud Journey on AWS: Part 1 – Establishing a Foundation” and “Accelerating Your Telecom Cloud Journey: A Technical Roadmap with AWS” we covered the transformation journey that many Telcos are embarking on when running complex and critical Telco workloads on AWS. Once a cloud foundation is established and workloads are running […]

Introduction In “Blog 1 – Your Telecom Cloud Journey on AWS: Part 1 – Establishing a Foundation” we covered the importance of establishing a strong cloud foundation on AWS, and we identified some of the key capabilities that are different or need to be adapted for Telco use cases. Specifically, we can see that from […]

Introduction This three-part series provides guidance on establishing a platform, or Telco Cloud, for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) migrating Telecommunications service provider (Telco) workloads to AWS. Sharing experiences from our Telco users’ journeys to the cloud, we cover the key operational and technical considerations when migrating complex telco workloads such as Core Networks, Radio Access […]

Background: Energy companies are seeking methods to run engineering software in the cloud, especially those that need a significant amount of computing and storage resources in short periods of time to bring about simulation capacity instantaneously and reduce project turnaround (for example, Florida-based utility runs PROMOD, Siemens Simcenter customers run CFD, Ansys LS-DYNA customers run […]

Toyota has made “connected cars” a key focus in its transition from an automotive company to a mobility company. In collaboration with its software and cloud services affiliate, Toyota Connected North America, it has developed an array of innovative technologies that help enhance customer safety and the overall vehicle ownership experience. One of these, Toyota […]

Many Telco use cases use Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) for traffic distribution, enhancing high availability (HA), resiliency, and fast failover. AWS Direct Connect and AWS Transit Gateways currently support ECMP (Equal-Cost Multi-Path routing) specifically for connections from on-premises environments to the AWS cloud. However, within an Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), only a single destination can […]

This blog discusses how The New York Stock Exchange Group expanded its cloud-based market data product offerings by launching NYSE Cloud Streaming. NYSE Cloud Streaming is a real-time market data streaming solution that lands high-quality market data into AWS with sub-hundred milliseconds latency in a Kafka-compatible stream. This solution makes it easier for customers to […]

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are exploring public cloud hosting of network functions, driven by industry transformation. One promising use case is hosting a network function on AWS for outbound roaming subscribers, leveraging AWS’s global infrastructure and enabling enhanced user experience. This post details a reference architecture, including IP Exchange (IPX) connectivity options, allowing integration with […]

Today, O2 Telefónica announced its 5G Cloud Core – a new 5G cloud network built entirely in the cloud, using technologies from European network equipment provider Nokia and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’re increasingly seeing more telecom operators recognize the value of moving network workloads to the cloud. Earlier this year, NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO), […]