Only weeks after Dish endorsed the still-experimental idea of deploying a whole 5G network in the public cloud, Telefónica gave AWS another significant boost, saying it had validated AWS Outposts as a viable option to deploy its core network. Outposts is a managed service that supports common AWS cloud infrastructure, services and tools in any location, delivering a consistent environment across on-premise and public, collocated clouds. This would allow Telefónica to deploy instances of its cloud-native core in different locations according to the use case, potentially spanning its own Unica telco cloud and those of customers and of AWS. This flexibility it important, since there will be different considerations and economics for the macro 5G network, compared to private or…