O2 Telefónica Germany, Nokia 5G SA Core and AWS - Public cloud for telecom goes mainstream

O2 Telefónica Germany is now the first major brownfield telco to run production traffic, at scale, through a 5G Core on AWS. O2 Telefónica is initially moving 1 million of its wireless subscribers over to its AWS-based Nokia 5G SA core. This development comes after a long period of evaluation, consideration, technical challenge and innovation. Appledore sees this as a significant industry milestone. In this Research Note we look at scope of this project, the relationship between AWS and O2 Telefónica Germany, and its significance for the wider telecom industry.