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AWS Wavelength: Deliver ultra-low latency applications for 5G devices
- kyriakos 7y agoI am at a point where I need to read at least 3 paragraphs just to understand what a new AWS service does.
- derision 7y agoThe first two sentences are pretty concise.. "AWS Wavelength enables developers to build applications that deliver single-digit millisecond latencies to mobile devices and end-users. AWS developers can deploy their applications to Wavelength Zones, AWS infrastructure deployments that embed AWS compute and storage services within the telecommunications providers’ datacenters at the edge of the 5G networks"
- Strudge 7y agoWhy 5G? Shouldn't this be applicable to any cell connection? 5G is about throughput, not latency. So if I need to run some low bandwidth latency sensitive app over 4G, can I?
- n3k5 7y ago> 5G is about throughput, not latency. For now. But in the longer term, the telcos are promising lower latencies. I think the magic search term for entering the relevant rabbit-hole is URLLC. Seems like the main factor in Wavelength's latency reduction is edge computing; from a technical perspective, that should work just as well with 4G user equipment. But once you have a single-digit ping, shaving off an extra couple of milliseconds becomes noticeable. So while the strong emphasis on '5G' may largely be marketing hype, it's at least not complete bologna.
- Strudge 7y agoI wonder how this will pan out with different partnerships. If we want say gcp on Verizon or aws on T-Mobile, will that ever happen or will you have to choose between preferred cloud provider and preferred cell provider? I guess this becomes a critical reason to do everything in plain k8s or whatever and avoid using any cloud provider paas stuff.