COUNTRY FOCUS : SWITZERLAND
Swiss flag individual and business to make the most of the opportunities presented by the digital age . This transformation project will help to ensure that Swisscom ’ s network in Switzerland is ready for the surge of emerging cloud applications , 5G , 4K , AI , IoT and more .”
It was also announced this year , that Swisscom selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider for its enterprise IT .
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 . 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 centre 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 .
By transforming parts of its internal IT on AWS , Swisscom aims to reduce complexity , gain greater efficiency and scale on demand to seamlessly deliver new innovations for its customers . Swisscom will use AWS ’ s comprehensive set of analytics , Machine Learning , containers , database and storage services to modernise its applications . In addition , Swisscom engineers and developers will be able to automate hardware provisioning , database setup , patching and backups , as well as deploy new applications in minutes .
Across the company , Swisscom will evolve its current data pipeline into a cloud-based data mesh , making use of AWS ’ s advanced analytics offerings , such as Amazon Kinesis for scalable and durable real-time data streaming . The company will also leverage AWS Glue for a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover , prepare and combine data for analytics , Machine Learning and application
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