Nokia and AWS expand partnership to deliver AI-driven autonomous networks for telecom operators

Nokia and AWS Target Level 4 Autonomy for Telecom Operations

Nokia and AWS announced an expansion of their collaboration to deliver autonomous networks built for the AI era, enabling telecommunications providers to run their complete operational stack in the cloud1

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. The companies are working to deploy Nokia's Autonomous Networks Fabric on AWS, providing telecom operators access to advanced AI and cloud services required for Level 4 autonomy2

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. The solution is expected to become available later this year, marking a significant step in the shift from static infrastructures to programmable, AI-native platforms3

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Intent-Based Service Orchestration Across Multi-Domain Networks

Nokia's Autonomous Network Fabric delivers intent-based service orchestration across multi-domain, multi-vendor networks, providing 360-degree observability with AI-powered anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and closed-loop resolution2

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. The platform unifies observability, analytics, security, and automation through four core capabilities: unified data management across domains, agentic AI for service operations and optimization, digital twin simulations for proactive impact assessment, and intent-based networking that translates business goals into automated actions1

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. This approach allows operators to evolve from manual processes to machine-speed operations that anticipate changing traffic patterns.

Cloud Services Enable Elastic Scalability and Advanced AI Capabilities

Running on AWS infrastructure, Nokia's solutions gain elastic scalability, global availability, and access to cloud AI and machine learning services including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker2

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. Nokia is engineering an optimized cloud footprint that minimizes compute and storage requirements compared to traditional on-premises deployments, enabling operators to innovate faster while reducing infrastructure costs. "Autonomous networks have gone from far-off vision to business imperative," said Oguz Sunay, CTO of AI and Autonomous Networks at Nokia. "Together with AWS, we're building a platform that scales operators' ambitions while maintaining the control and governance they need"1

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Proven Results Show Step-Change Efficiency Gains

Nokia reported that its autonomous networks portfolio has already delivered measurable results for operators, with automation rates exceeding 90%, service delivery times of four hours or less, and service interruption periods of one minute per year or fewer2

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. Operators have achieved up to 85% reduction in slice rollout time and up to 50% fewer customer-impacting incidents1

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. The shift to autonomous network operations focuses on speed to detect, speed to resolve, and speed to monetize, with Nokia and AWS compressing years of transformation into months2

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Building on Previous Milestones in Network Slicing and 5G Core SaaS

The announcement builds on previous collaborations between the companies. At Mobile World Congress in March, Nokia and AWS showcased the industry's first agentic AI-powered network slicing alongside du and Orange2

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. In February, they announced the world's first commercial mobile service on 5G Core SaaS, running on Belgium's Citymesh network1

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. The companies are committed to a collaborative innovation agenda that combines Nokia's telecom-trained AI models and domain expertise with AWS's AI services to deliver increasingly autonomous network operations and help operators unlock new revenue streams2

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