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This week’s post features another customer story on AWS. This article is reproduced from the below and discusses how Snapchat relied on microservices and a multi-cloud strategy to overhaul its technology approach as it grew.

Over the years, I have had the good fortune of working with some of the best engineering talent in the financial services industry on cutting edge, realtime platforms. A customer who led the way in the Capital markets space is FINRA.

At AWS, I lead the global container practice for two key verticals – Telcos and M&E (Media and Entertainment). My group spends a lot of our time being customer-focused and working with customers & partners on a daily basis to understand trends, use cases, and business goals.

Running Kubernetes on bare metal infrastructure is complex, requiring specialized expertise and significant customer investment in time and the tools needed to automate Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management.

This week’s blog is a joint post by Nati Shalom, CTO Cloudify and yours truly. We discuss the need for multiple K8s clusters along with Network orchestration.

We continue our discussion of the public reference architecture on the Dish 5G buildout on AWS with a detailed look at the deployment automation of the implementation.

This implementation uses O-RAN standards and consists of a Radio Unit(RU) deployed on cell towers and a Distributed Unit (DU) as well as a centralized unit (CU) which is deployed in an AWS local zone.

We continue our discussion of the public reference architecture on the Dish 5G buildout on AWS with a look at the physical network design and datacenter layout.

DISH Networks is pioneering the deployment of a greenfield 5G network. This implementation uses O-RAN standards and consists of a Radio Unit(RU) deployed on cell towers and a Distributed Unit (DU) as well as a centralized unit (CU) which is deployed in an AWS local zone. While these components combine to provide a full RAN solution that handles radio level control and subscriber data traffic, let us consider the key architecture lessons from this first blog.

Dish Network and AWS teams have just published a public reference architecture [1] on the Dish 5G buildout on AWS. As this is a project my team is involved in, I thought it would be a good diversion from architecture posts to discuss key aspects – the main business case & the architecture principles in this post.