The wide range of new use cases being deployed already around the 5G network edge is driving demand for more sophisticated service validation and equipment testing capable of demonstrating adherence to stricter performance measures relating to latency, capacity and speed. At the same time, the dearth of choice for RAN equipment occasioned by Huawei’s exclusion in many countries, is generating groundswell behind Open RAN to encourage new entrants to the field and this too calls for new testing products. This is giving cloud providers an opportunity to take up residence at the edge to provide testing services, even for operators not otherwise using their infrastructure. Amazon AWS, with its analytics pedigree from various developments and acquisitions, is not surprisingly at…