{"id":41616,"date":"2020-12-02T11:47:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=c092a237c0dccc076e139d5800aec503"},"modified":"2020-12-02T11:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:47:47","slug":"aws-to-bring-5g-edge-compute-service-to-the-uk-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/aws-to-bring-5g-edge-compute-service-to-the-uk-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS to bring 5G edge compute service to the UK in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Sabina Weston<\/a><\/span>
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2 Dec, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)<\/a>\u00a0has announced plans to bring its\u00a05G<\/a>\u00a0edge compute service to the UK in early 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First unveiled at last year\u2019s re:Invent event<\/a>, AWS Wavelength offers optimised solutions for mobile\u00a0edge computing<\/a>\u00a0applications, simplifying application traffic in order to fully utilise the latency and bandwidth benefits offered by modern 5G networks.<\/p>\n

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\nThe service manages to shorten the time of mobile data response from seconds to milliseconds, making it ideal for time-sensitive sectors such as\u00a0driverless cars<\/a>\u00a0or surgeries, as well as less critical scenarios like gaming.<\/p>\n

Speaking at this year\u2019s re:Invent, a three-week event which commenced on 1 December, AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that AWS Wavelength will be launched in the UK in partnership with\u00a0Vodafone<\/a>\u00a0Business.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This will be part of the new\u00a0Vodafone Business Edge Innovation Program (EIP)<\/a>, which has opened its registration submissions today. The programme will provide\u00a0startups<\/a>, ISVs, businesses, as well as freelance developers exclusive access to edge computing training to help them develop, test and deploy a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) 5G application on AWS Wavelength and Vodafone 5G network.<\/p>\n

Vodafone and AWS will roll out Wavelength\u00a0in spring 2021, starting with a commercial Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) centre in London. The MEC centre will use Vodafone\u2019s 5G network in order to provide an ultra-low latency zone over the extended area of the UK capital.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the announcement, Vodafone Business CEO Vinod Kumar said that \u201cworking with AWS on\u00a0edge computing<\/a>\u00a0means we are making it simpler for both independent software vendors and our customers to experiment with this emerging technology\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing this by offering an incubation space to create and test applications that we can then industrialise and scale. And we\u2019re already seeing some innovative applications that provide positive business outcomes from Dedrone, Digital Barriers, HERE Technologies, Groopview, and Unleash live, with so much more to come once our MEC innovation programme is running,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

As well as the\u00a0updates to Wavelength, AWS also used re:Invent to announce a new\u00a0ML<\/a>-powered operations service called Amazon DevOps Guru. The service uses machine learning to help\u00a0developers<\/a>\u00a0detect and solve operational problems with applications.<\/p>\n

AWS\u2019 Machine Learning VP Swami Sivasubramanian said that the idea behind DevOps Guru was borne from customer requests to \u201ccontinue adding services around areas where we can apply our own expertise on how to improve application availability and learn from the years of operational experience that we have acquired running Amazon.com\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Amazon, we have taken our experience and built specialised machine learning models that help customers detect, troubleshoot, and prevent operational issues while providing intelligent recommendations when issues do arise,”\u00a0\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n

“This enables teams to immediately benefit from operational best practices Amazon has learned from running Amazon.com, saving customers the time and effort that would otherwise be spent configuring and managing multiple monitoring systems,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sabina Weston<\/p>\n

2 Dec, 2020 <\/p>\n

Amazon Web Services (AWS)\u00a0has announced plans to bring its\u00a05G\u00a0edge compute service to the UK in early 2021.\u00a0
\nFirst unveiled at last year\u2019s re:Invent event, AWS Wavelength offers optimised soluti…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41617,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616\/revisions\/41617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}