It is important to be aware of the pricing difference for AWS services when they are deployed to a Wavelength Zone versus a standard availability zone. The next figure shows an example of the difference for different EC2 instance types in us-east-1 (Northern Virginia region) and us-east-1-atl-1a (Atlanta Wavelength Zone): Figure 7.25 – On-demand pricing […]
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Amazon ECS – Using AWS Wavelength Zones on Public 5G Networks
ECS is available in AWS Wavelength in two forms – Standard ECS on EC2 and ECS Anywhere. However, ECS on AWS Fargate is not supported. Applications that span multiple AWS Wavelength Zones are really intended to function in a hub-and-spoke model. While it is possible through the use of multiple VPCs and AWS Transit Gateway […]
Differences between 5G and 4G/LTE clients – Using AWS Wavelength Zones on Public 5G Networks
Both types of devices on an MNO’s network can connect to resources in an AWS Wavelength Zone. However, the latency is dramatically different. Recall from Chapter 3 the architectural differences between 5G and 4G/LTE topologies. A 5G connection can leave an MNO’s network via one of many distributed points known as the User Plane Function […]
Carrier gateways – Using AWS Wavelength Zones on Public 5G Networks
AWS Wavelength Zones use a special construct similar to an internet gateway called a carrier gateway. This is how traffic will route to/from the MNO’s network to EC2 instances or containers you attach to the subnets in your AWS Wavelength Zone: Figure 7.5 – Creating a carrier gateway for an AWS Wavelength Zone Routing tables […]
SK Telecom (Korea) – Using AWS Wavelength Zones on Public 5G Networks
South Korea, a pioneer in 5G adoption, benefits from the partnership between AWS Wavelength and SK Telecom. The South Korean market, known for its high internet speeds and technological innovations, places emphasis on entertainment and smart city applications. Given the country’s love for eSports and K-pop, the collaboration ensures that streaming and gaming applications have […]
Comparing AWS Wavelength deployments across global carriers – Using AWS Wavelength Zones on Public 5G Networks
AWS Wavelength is a series of individual partnerships with carriers around the world. An EC2 instance, or ECS/EKS container in an AWS Wavelength Zone, is specifically meant to service requests coming from mobile devices on that MNO’s network. SLAs for a given mobile device around latency, jitter, and similar network parameters are specific to each […]
Introduction to AWS Wavelength Zones – Using AWS Wavelength Zones on Public 5G Networks
In Chapter 3, we discussed how mobile network operators (MNOs) are eager to build multi-access edge computing (MEC) offerings to develop new revenue streams for their 5G infrastructure investments. However, they are not cloud service providers (CSPs). They usually do not have the in-house expertise to operationalize a customer-facing multitenant service such as this. Enter […]