One of the most talked-about topics at the recent Mobile World Congress was a timely blog post published by Amazon AWS, providing more details about its groundbreaking deal with Dish to support parts of the new US MNO’s 5G RAN on its cloud. In a 3,100-word blog post on its website, five engineers describe many aspects of the deployment from cloud architecture to security to time-to-market. Dish will take a multi-layered approach to the cloud platforms to host its Open RAN baseband network functions. Some will run on its own edge cloud, implemented on Dell platforms, but a substantial portion will run on AWS’s public cloud. Together with Microsoft’s landmark agreement to take over AT&T’s mobile core and network cloud…