Nokia and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have recently expanded their existing collaboration to deliver autonomous networks for the AI era. This move will make it easier for operators to run their full operational stack in the cloud.
The two companies will run Nokia’s Autonomous Network Fabric on AWS, giving service providers access to AI and cloud services needed to pursue Level 4 autonomy.
Existing Nokia digital operations applications are already on the platform covering orchestration, assurance and unified inventory. Availability of the latest addition is expected later in 2026.
Nokia’s Autonomous Network Fabric brings together intent-based service orchestration across multi-domain, multi-vendor networks, 360-degree observability with AI-powered anomaly detection and root cause analysis, closed-loop resolution, and a “single source of truth” for network topology and resources.
The Finnish vendor stated it unifies observability, analytics, security and automation through four capabilities: unified data management across domains; agentic AI for service operations and optimisation; digital twin simulations for proactive impact assessment; and intent-based networking translating business goals into automated closed-loop actions.
Oguz Sunay, CTO for AI and autonomous networks at Nokia, noted the convergence of intent-based networking, agentic AI and cloud-native architecture, combined with AWS, is building a platform which scales operators’ ambitions while maintaining the control and governance they need. “This is how telcos will compete in the AI era”, he added.
By running on AWS, Nokia’s offerings gain scalability, global availability and access to cloud AI and machine learning services.
Amir Rao, AWS’ global director for telco solutions, stated the shift to autonomous network operations is about speed and step-change efficiency. He added optimising Nokia’s full operational stack on AWS lets operators tap elastic scalability and the cloud giant’s global infrastructure footprint, compressing years of transformation into months.
Source: Mobile World Live
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