One of the hot topics of Mobile World Congress was the newly announced agreement between NTT Docomo and AWS, which will see the Japanese operator, always an innovator in terms of network architecture, run many of its 5G cloud-native core and RAN workloads in the AWS cloud. This heightened ongoing discussions about how far the public cloud platforms – AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud – are fit for purpose for supporting distributed RAN, in particular, and what are the benefits and challenges for operators of adopting this approach, rather than deploying vRAN on their own clouds or those of vendors such as Ericsson. Docomo will use Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (EKS Anywhere), a container management software, to support…