BT says it will use Amazon Web Services as its compute platform supporting internal BT operations. It no longer is a novel move, as many tier-one telcos have concluded it makes sense to use public cloud platforms as they move to cloud native operations.
AT&T shifted non-network functions to Azure back in 2019. Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Verizon have moved apps to public cloud providers. Telefonica, SKT, Singtel, Optus and Globe Telecom are among service providers moving workloads to the public cloud.
In principle, telcos, no less than any other large enterprise users, simply are shifting with the larger changes in computing architecture towards remote computing and content access.
Such deals have been cited as possibly problematic in some quarters, with the issues viewed as increasing vendor lock in.
The issue is not so much the exporting of the computing platform but the difficulty of switching cloud computing suppliers in the future, should that be desirable.
That is valid, but no more so than would be the case when other major compute platform choices are made.
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