A year ago, at its Re:invent developer conference, Amazon AWS announced an Wavelengths, a proposition designed to exploit the increasingly important intersection between edge computing and 5G. Verizon was the first to sign up for the platform, which sees AWS deploy its edge computing infrastructure in operators’ hub locations, such as central offices or metro data centers, and harness their 5G connectivity. The arrangement gives the operator access to AWS’s vast developer base, while the cloud giant gains a rapid way to distribute its cloud into ever-more remote locations by riding on operators’ assets, rather than taking on a build-out which runs counter to the centralizing, hyperscale economics of the cloud model. Since then, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have…