First two AWS Wavelength Zones in Boston and
the San Francisco Bay Area enable developers to build applications
that deliver ultra-low latency to mobile devices and users by
deploying AWS compute and storage at the edge of Verizon’s 5G
network
Sony, LG, Tata Consultancy Services, Summit
Tech, and Edgegap among the first customers and partners to build
ultra-low latency applications on AWS Wavelength
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of AWS
Wavelength on Verizon’s 5G network, allowing developers to build
ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and users in
Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area, beginning in San Jose today
and extending to the rest of the Bay Area in the coming weeks.
Customers can now deploy parts of their application that require
ultra-low latency at the edge of 5G networks using the same AWS
APIs, tools, and functionality they use today, while seamlessly
connecting back to the rest of their application and the full range
of cloud services running in an AWS Region. By embedding AWS
compute and storage services at the edge of 5G networks, AWS
Wavelength enables developers to serve edge computing use cases
that require ultra-low latency like machine learning, Internet of
Things (IoT), and video and game streaming. To get started with AWS
Wavelength, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/wavelength.
With 77 Availability Zones across 24 AWS Regions, AWS enables
developers to serve end-users with low latencies worldwide.
However, there are an increasingly a number of applications (e.g.
smart manufacturing, machine learning inference, autonomous
driving, live event streaming, IoT, and video games) that want very
low latency across the mobile network. To perform their jobs, these
applications need access to compute and storage, and like many
applications today, they also seek to leverage the cloud. However,
accessing the cloud using traditional mobile architectures requires
several hops on the network (from a device, to a cell tower, to
metro aggregation sites, to regional aggregation sites, to the
Internet, to the cloud—and then back through those stops before
getting back to the device). This creates tens of milliseconds
(sometimes seconds) of latency. The 5G network is up to 10 times
faster than 4G, but to take full advantage of the latency
improvements that 5G offers, the number of network hops needs to be
reduced.
Wavelength addresses these problems by bringing AWS services to
the edge of the 5G network, minimizing the latency to connect to an
application from a mobile device. With Wavelength, AWS developers
can deploy their applications to Wavelength Zones (AWS
infrastructure deployments that embed AWS compute and storage
services within the telecommunication providers’ datacenters at the
edge of the 5G network) so application traffic only needs to travel
from the device to a cell tower to a Wavelength Zone running in a
metro aggregation site. This removes the latency that results from
multiple hops between regional aggregation sites and across the
Internet, which enables customers to take full advantage of 5G
networks. Wavelength will also deliver a consistent developer
experience across multiple 5G networks around the world, and allows
developers to build the next generation of ultra-low latency
applications using the familiar AWS services, APIs, and tools they
already use today. By providing a common developer experience,
Wavelength makes it easy for developers to deploy across different
telecommunications providers even if these providers have different
deployment and operations semantics.
AWS is partnering with Verizon to bring AWS Wavelength to
customers across the United States. The first Wavelength Zones are
available today in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area, and
additional locations will be coming later this year. AWS is also
working with other leading telecommunications providers, including
Vodafone, SK Telecom, and KDDI, to launch Wavelength Zones across
Europe, South Korea, and Japan.
Developers that want to deploy their application to the 5G edge
simply extend their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to the
Wavelength Zones, and then they can start running a broad range of
AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon
Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Amazon Elastic Container Service
(ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS). In addition,
developers can continue to use familiar and powerful AWS services
to manage, secure, and scale their applications, like AWS
CloudFormation, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and AWS
Auto Scaling, making it easy to run a wide variety of
latency-sensitive workloads like analytics, IoT, machine learning,
game streaming, and AR/VR on 5G networks.
“Our customers tell us they are excited to build applications
that take advantage of 5G networks, but in order for these
applications to provide ultra-low latency to mobile end-users,
customers need AWS compute and storage services embedded directly
within the 5G network,” said Dave Brown, Vice President, EC2,
Amazon Web Services, Inc. “With AWS Wavelength, our customers can
develop applications that take advantage of ultra-low latencies to
address use cases like machine learning inference at the edge,
smart cities and smart factories, and autonomous vehicles – all
while using the same familiar AWS services, API, and tools to
deploy them to 5G networks worldwide.”
Verizon is building the most powerful 5G network in the U.S.
Launched in April 2019, Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network is
currently live in parts of 35 cities and will expand to more than
60 cities by the end of this year. “We’re excited to bring AWS
Wavelength to the edge of our network, unlocking the power of 5G
Edge and mobile edge compute for developers around the world,” said
Kyle Malady, CTO of Verizon. “We built our 5G Ultra Wideband
network from the ground up to support the transformative
experiences enabled by the ultra-low latency and robust bandwidth
delivered for mobile edge compute.”
Sony Corporation is a creative entertainment company with a
solid foundation of technology. From game and network services to
music, pictures, electronics, semiconductors and financial services
- Sony's purpose is to fill the world with emotion through the
power of creativity and technology. “Sony is using AWS Wavelength
to improve how consumers live stream the world’s most memorable
live news, sports, and entertainment. AWS Wavelength and the 5G
network provide Sony the ultra-low latency needed to live stream
high-resolution video and high-fidelity audio, as well as to embed
interactive experiences into live video streams,” said Hisashi
Tamai, Senior Vice President in charge of System and Platform
Technology Development, Fundamental Technology Research and
Development, R&D Center.
LG Electronics is piloting next-generation Cellular-Vehicle to
Everything (C-V2X) on AWS Wavelength at the Verizon 5G Edge. This
includes LG’s Authentication as a Service (LG AaaS), which improves
driving safety with secure information sharing between motor
vehicles, mobile devices, and transportation infrastructures.
“Every millisecond counts in unexpected driving situations where
blind spots, collisions and hydroplaning are involved," said Rick
Kreifeldt, Senior Vice President, LG America R&D Lab. "What's
critical is the ability to quickly scale computational resources
with low latency and high throughput for timely delivery of
security services while preserving the privacy of the system. Our
C-V2X pilot with ultra-low latency access to AWS Wavelength allows
for timely message filtering that only shares relevant and trusted
information for improved road safety and enhanced mobility among
vehicles.”
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting
and business solutions organization that has been partnering with
many of the world's largest businesses in their transformation
journeys for the last 50 years. “TCS recently piloted one of our
cutting-edge Smart Factory solution, and leveraged AWS Wavelength
to enable re-imagined business capabilities using real-time video
and image analysis for quality inspection of high-speed assembly
lines,” said Shanky Viswanathan, CTO Communication, Media and
Information Service Business Group, TCS. “With critical GPU
workloads rendered from AWS Wavelength coupled with 5G’s bandwidth,
we can achieve the low latency and increased connectivity to
deliver a pathway to truly connected factories, where data flows
seamlessly between machines and cloud to enable AI powered real
time decisioning at the edge.”
Summit Tech is a leader in developing voice, video, and text
services for telecommunications operators, and optimizing streaming
of next-generation user experiences such as Ultra HD (high
definition) video and augmented and virtual reality calling for
live event streaming, gaming, or shopping. “AWS infrastructure and
Services has been powering our success stories for many years. AWS
Wavelength eliminates the undifferentiated heavy lifting required
to support these new kinds of immersive consumer experiences, and
gives us the best of all worlds with a consistent deployment
model,” said Alido Di Giovanni, Co-founder and President of Summit
Tech. “Technologies like Ultra HD and 360 AR/VR are challenging
because they require ultra-low latency and high bandwidth, which
outstrips traditional wireless network connections and forces telco
operators to deliver “best-effort” quality of service to many
viewers instead of optimizing experiences per viewer. These
advanced applications also use massive compute power on the
consumer side, draining device batteries. By combining AWS
Wavelength with our Solution at the edge of telco providers’ 5G
networks, we can optimize video quality, instantly deliver
high-quality of service experiences on a by-customer basis, and
create more immersive content with much less reliance on end users’
hardware. AWS and Wavelength are also giving us a much faster path
to market.”
Edgegap is a pioneer in building next-generation infrastructures
for global multiplayer gaming titles and esports tournaments, and
leveraging edge computing to help studios reduce latency, increase
player fairness, track and improve experiences, and scale on demand
worldwide. “Allowing studios to get a real understanding of
players’ experiences and their online services is at the heart of
what we do. As global gaming rapidly shifts from centralized to
localized environments, Edgegap’s ability to dramatically reduce
latencies improve gaming experiences wherever players are located,”
said Mathieu Duperré, Edgegap founder and CEO. “With AWS Wavelength
on the Verizon 5G edge, we get the ultra-low latency and proximity
needed to reduce the distance between servers and end users with a
single, elegant solution. By tightly integrating game studio
backends and edge computing infrastructures with AWS Wavelength,
Edgegap can reduce lag by more than half, increase fairness,
improve total player experiences, and help reduce churn and
increase revenue for studios.”
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