AWS Private 5G just added to Amazon cloud’s appeal
Rolled out in parts of the US and set to go international soon, the service offers companies a mobile network they can control and customize.
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Editor's note: Amazon Web Services has launched a new service—AWS Private 5G—designed to help enterprises deploy their own private 5G networks. The service was announced in an early preview late last year but is now officially available to AWS customers starting in its US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. AWS says that the service will be rolled out internationally “in the near future”. AWS Private 5G is a managed service that “makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale your own private mobile network, with all required hardware and software provided by AWS”. To build a private 5G network, companies need to obtain a licence for spectrum usage, procure network equipment as well as manage the network. Managed services like AWS Private 5G essentially offer a 5G-in-a-box solution to do away with the complexity of buying, building and managing a private mobile network. AWS Private 5G uses Citizen Broadband Radio Service, or CBRS, a shared 3.5 GHz wireless spectrum band that has historically been reserved for the US defence department for its military radar systems and …
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