Deploying E2E 5G Network with AWS

5G RAN, Edge, Core, and Data Network Based on throughput requirement, AWS
This reference architecture explains how different AWS Services can be used together to deliver an end-to-end 5G 1 Snowcone (up to 100mbps) or AWS Snowball
Edge (up to 10Gbps) can be used for OpenRAN
network. (Distributed Unit (DU) and Centralized Unit (CU)).
Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC)
2 capabilities are built using AWS Outposts with
Internet/Backbone
Corporate Data Centers (Core)
4
AWS Direct
Connect Region Amazon AWS AWS
6 Services such as Amazon Elastic Compute
Service Link
CloudWatch CloudFormation CloudTrail Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic
Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon
Central Office Local Router Customer Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS),
AWS CodeDeploy EC2 Amazon Amazon Amazon
Gateway
EKS
ElasstiCache Aurora DocumentDB and Amazon Simple Storage Service

Transit VF
Public VF
AWS Outposts 3 (Amazon S3).
AWS Outposts 5
… 5G Core User Plane Function (UPF) is deployed
MEC App1 MEC App2 MEC AppN Extension Of Region VPC Amazon S3 Amazon EBS Amazon EFS ELB AWS App Mesh AWS Lambda
3 on AWS Outposts on-premises to provide high
EC2 Worker EC2 Worker AZ-a AZ-b AZ-c throughput.
S3 EBS EKS EC2 Lambda Node Node
ASG
MEC Platform Am azon
Use AWS Direct Connect to connect on-
EKS
VPC NSSF AMF SMF
2 … …
4 premises 5G Core components to an AWS
UPF UPF UPF UPF
Lam bda
µService µService µService Region for control and management.
7 5G Core user plane function (UPF) is
EC2
AWS App Mesh AWS X-Ray Prometheus Grafana Multus fluentd

5G Core DP 5G Control 5 implemented as micro-services on Amazon EKS

Other N3 VPC Attachment taking advantage of Single-root input/output
Radio Sites Backhaul AWS Transit
VPC Attachment 8
Gateway virtualization (SR-IOV), Data Plane
Development Kit (DPDK), and dual homing
Corporate Offices (Data Network) capabilities.
1
Service Link The Control Plane runs on the AWS Region on
N6
AWS Direct
VPC 6 the same virtual private cloud (VPC) as on-
CU
CU

Carrier Gateway Customer Gateway

Connect
Service Design Service Service premises. Control plane functions are
Cell Site
Cell Site

Orchestration
& Creation Assurance implemented on Amazon ECS or EKS.
DU
DU

AWS Wavelength Management & Orchestration Tools VPC expansion to on-premises allows UPF
7 instances to expand to AWS regions via
Network Load Balancer (NLB) if needed.
To AWS Region
Internet/ AWS Amazon Amazon
AWS SF Amazon SQS AWS Service Amazon
Backbone
…
CodePipeline CloudWatch SNS Catalog Athena
Other VPCs can be interconnected via AWS
AW S Snow cone AW S Snow ball Edge
8 Transit Gateway and host management and
VPC App1 App2 AppN orchestration services.
Amazon Amazon AWS Amazon ECS Amazon EKS AWS Amazon
S3 DynamoDB Fargate Lambda SageMaker
AWS Wavelength is used to allow the
Developer Community Apps 9 developer community access to the
9 communication service provider (CSP)
environment, and to provide low latency apps
to subscribers.
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