Nokia, AWS Expand Autonomous Networking Partnership

Nokia and Amazon Web Services (AWS) expanded their collaboration to bring Nokia’s Autonomous Networks Fabric to AWS, enabling telecom operators to run their operational support stack in the cloud while advancing toward Level 4 network autonomy. The joint initiative combines Nokia’s network automation, observability, and orchestration capabilities with AWS cloud infrastructure and AI services, including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, to support increasingly autonomous network operations.

The companies said the platform will help operators move beyond traditional siloed network management environments toward AI-native operations that can automate service delivery, optimize network performance, and respond to changing traffic conditions at machine speed. Nokia’s Autonomous Networks Fabric integrates four core elements: unified data management, agentic AI for network operations, digital twin simulations, and intent-based networking. Together, these capabilities provide operators with a common platform for observability, analytics, security, and closed-loop automation across multi-domain and multi-vendor environments.

The announcement builds on an expanding Nokia-AWS partnership focused on cloud-native telecom operations. Earlier this year, the companies demonstrated agentic AI-powered network slicing with du and Orange at MWC 2026 and launched what they described as the first commercial mobile service running on a 5G Core SaaS platform with Belgium-based Citymesh. Nokia said its autonomous networking deployments have achieved automation rates above 90%, service delivery times of four hours or less, service interruption levels of less than one minute annually, up to 85% faster network slice deployment, and up to 50% fewer customer-impacting incidents.

• Nokia will make its Autonomous Networks Fabric available on AWS later this year.

• The platform combines intent-based networking, AI-powered observability, digital twins, and agentic AI.

• AWS provides cloud infrastructure plus AI services including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker.

• The initiative targets Level 4 autonomous network operations.

• Nokia and AWS plan joint go-to-market activities to help operators modernize operational stacks and increase automation.

“Autonomous networks have gone from far-off vision to business imperative. At Nokia, we move operators toward greater autonomy through the convergence of intent-based networking, agentic AI, and cloud-native architecture. Together with AWS, we’re building a platform that scales operators’ ambitions while maintaining the control and governance they need. This is how telcos will compete in the AI era,” said Oguz Sunay, CTO, AI and Autonomous Networks at Nokia.

🌐 Analysis

The announcement reflects Nokia’s broader strategy to position autonomous operations as a foundational requirement for AI-era telecom networks. Rather than focusing solely on network functions, Nokia is targeting the operational layer where data management, observability, automation, and AI agents converge. This aligns with an industry-wide shift toward intent-based operations and closed-loop automation as operators seek to manage increasingly complex multi-cloud, multi-vendor environments.

For AWS, the partnership extends its push into telecom cloud transformation beyond core network hosting. By integrating Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker into network operations workflows, AWS is competing to become the preferred AI platform for telecom operators. Similar initiatives are underway across the industry, including AI-driven operational platforms from Ericsson, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and NVIDIA, as telecom operators evaluate how agentic AI can reduce operational costs while accelerating service creation and network optimization.