At the tail end of 2018, when individuals and enterprises alike were bemoaning LTE’s numerous bottlenecks, 5G came to be. Its emergence set off a series of chain reactions that eventually propelled it to become the breakthrough connectivity standard it is today.

Amazon Web Services Inc. is riding the 5G wave, helping its industry clients — which include large telecom operators — to unlock the full scale of possibilities 5G has on offer, according to Adolfo Hernandez (pictured), vice president of the Global Telco Business Unit at AWS.

“We are supporting telecom operators around the world as they reinvent communications in many different ways,” Hernandez said. “This is not just one more G; we are definitely transforming the industry.“

Hernandez spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the recent Mobile World Congress event. They discussed what 5G could mean to both AWS and its telco clients as both parties deliver value to their respective customers. (* Disclosure below.)

Benefits outweighing costs

Telecom operators taking full advantage of 5G requires a substantial amount of infrastructural change. With most enterprise setups, processes include network IT migration, data center consolidation, operations support system and business support system processes, and a few more, according to Hernandez. However, the potential medium-to-long-term benefits in terms of service deliverability and cost reductions are immense.

“As you move to the cloud, you can provision on the different parts of the cloud. You can provision on the AWS Outposts, you can provision on local phone, you can provision on regions, and you leverage right away the experience that we’ve got on all of our infrastructures, reducing costs, getting a lot of flexibility and being able to embark and consume what you need,” Hernandez added while discussing the benefits with enterprise-level 5G deployment.

Telecom service and enterprise solutions providers are already reaping the aforementioned returns. Reportedly, Telefonica Vivo in Brazi has confirmed a vast improvement in its automation capabilities, as well as faster CI/CD/CT operations, Hernandez concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Mobile World Congress event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Mobile World Congress. Neither TelcoDR Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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