It is important to remember that while AWS Global Accelerator uses IP Anycast to steer clients into the nearest edge POP, it is much more than that. In a similar way to Amazon CloudFront, when customer connections enter an edge POP, they are terminated on a proxy server. This means that the three-way handshake – […]
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Service pricing – Using AWS Wavelength Zones on Public 5G Networks
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 […]
USING PRIVATE VPC ENDPOINTS IN AWS WAVELENGTH ZONES – Using AWS Wavelength Zones on Public 5G Networks
VPC interface endpoints must be attached to subnets in the parent region. They cannot be attached to subnets in an AWS Wavelength Zone. This also needs to be considered for any services your mobile application itself directly uses. It is common for mobile devices to retrieve files from Amazon S3: Figure 7.18 – Mobile device […]
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 […]
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 […]