Nokia and AWS Partner to Drive Cloud Adoption in Large Orgs Amazon Web Services and Nokia have joined forces to promote the cloud to large enterprises and service providers. The partnership was announced Thursday and aims to enable enterprise-scale cloud solutions and capabilities, including Internet of Things (IoT), better connectivity and consulting services, for both the companies’ mutual enterprise customers as well as communications service providers. Kathrin Buvac, Nokia Chief Strategy Officer, stated that this collaboration spanned our services capabilities in application migrating, SD-WAN form Nuage Networks and 5G. It also allows for new growth opportunities for top customers in both the service provider market segment and large enterprise segments. As Nokia announced, the partnership will focus on four areas.

• IoT: Nokia will use AWS infrastructure, particularly Amazon Machine Learning and AWS Greengrass, to develop IoT solutions. This will be in addition to its own IMPACT IoT platform as well as its edge computing offering.
• Nokia will offer a bundle of support services to service providers who are moving to AWS. This includes design, migration, and implementation.
• User Experience: The AWS console will be integrated with Nuage Networks, Nokia’s software-defined networking business acquired in 2016 when it bought Alcatel-Lucent. Nokia stated that this integration will allow “secure branch connectivity within hybrid environments with ‘Single Pane of Glass’ capabilities.”
• 5G: The two companies will “generate new Edge Cloud and 5G strategies and guidance for customers, including reference architectures.”

Terry Wise, head, Channels and Alliances, AWS, stated, “We are thrilled to partner with Nokia for cloud transformation for service provider providers and enable the digital transform journey for our mutual large enterprise clients.”