Swisscom is pursuing a cloud-first strategy and will use AWS to increase IT agility, drive operational efficiencies, and accelerate time to market for new information and communications technology (ICT) features and services, the announcement said.
As part of its overall digital transformation, Swisscom will migrate to AWS a wide range of core applications that power its enterprise resource planning, operational support system (OSS), business support system (BSS), analytics, contact center, and communications provisioning workloads.
Swisscom will also leverage AWS's proven infrastructure and breadth and depth of services to explore how it can build a reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective 5G Core in the cloud that would enable rapid development and deployment of new 5G services for its customers, according to the announcement.
Swisscom is the largest telecoms company in Switzerland and one of the country's leading IT services providers.
"We expect 5G to open the door for a host of specialized services. Having AWS by our side ... will help us innovate and grow at a rapid pace," said Christoph Aeschlimann, CTO and CIO of Swisscom.
"Our collaboration with Swisscom represents our long-term commitment to Switzerland, and we look forward to driving broad industry transformations for more European customers when we open our new region next year," said Adolfo Hernandez, vice president of global telco business at AWS.
Latest comments