Rakuten Mobile is generally seen as the trailblazer for new 5G architectures, but even the Japanese disruptor has not put its RAN or core into the public cloud, but is instead building out its own dense edge cloud to support its roll-out. Dish Network, which often says it is following Rakuten’s blueprint, has gone a step further and said it will run its whole 5G network, even the vRAN, in the AWS cloud. This appears to be a massive gamble, which will force Dish to address its challenging roll-out deadlines using an entirely unproven platform. Its trial networks have used a VMware telco cloud layer, with RAN virtual network functions from Mavenir and Altiostar running on Intel FlexRAN. It is…