Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 the AWS Outposts rack designed for high-performance, network-intensive workloads and the AWS Outposts server designed for Cloud Radio Access Network (Cloud RAN) workloads.
The new product line supports corporations in expanding AWS infrastructure and services to deploy on-premises network functions that require low latency, high-performance processing, and real-time performance. Both products are expected to be officially launched by the end of this year and will support the 5G Core User Plane Function (UPF), Centralized Unit (RAN CU), and Distributed Unit (RAN DU) workloads.
The AWS Outposts rack and AWS Outposts server are designed to modernize existing networks and accelerate the deployment of virtualized, cloud-based networks. The continuity of AWS infrastructure and services, including AWS Regions, AWS Local Zones, and AWS Outposts, supports various requirements such as telecommunications corporations' low-latency needs, migration and modernization, data residency, and local data processing.
Dave Brown, vice president of AWS computing and networking institutional sector, noted, “Through the new AWS Outposts product line, the AWS Cloud Continuum can extend the AWS cloud environment to the edge of the 5G network. This allows telecommunications corporations to operate a full 5G network, including the 5G core and 5G RAN, on AWS cloud services,” and added, “The AWS Outposts rack introduces a new architecture that supports cost-efficient capacity expansion to meet the increasing throughput requirements of the 5G networks handling the highest traffic globally.”