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Pre-requisites: AWS

The use of Amazon Wavelength is developers can produce mobile applications with incredibly low latencies. Wavelength has deployed storage and computing resources that are integrated into the 5G edge networks of communications service providers (CSPs). To one or more Wavelength Zones, a virtual private cloud (VPC) can be expanded. After that, you can use AWS resources like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to run the applications that require incredibly low latency and a connection to AWS services in the Region.

Architecture of AWS wavelength

 

Key Concepts Of AWS Wavelength

Wavelength: Novel AWS architecture designed to support mobile network workloads that require extremely low latency.

Network Border Group: A particular collection of Local Zones, Wavelength Zones, or Availability Zones from which AWS promotes IP addresses.

Wavelength Zone: Location where the carrier site’s Wavelength infrastructure has been installed. Wavelength Zones that are related to an AWS Region. The Wavelength Zone, a logical extension of the region, is managed by the control plane in the region.

Wavelength application: An application that you run in a wavelength zone on AWS resources.

VPC: Amazon EC2 instances are among the resources that are deployed in the subnets linked to the zones in the customer’s virtual private cloud (VPC), which is dispersed over Availability Zones, Local Zones, and Wavelength Zones.

Wavelength subnet: A subnet that you create inside a wavelength range. One or more subnets that you create can be used to manage AWS services like Amazon EC2 instances.

Carrier gateway: Two tasks are carried out by a carrier gateway. It allows both inbound traffic from a specific carrier network and outbound traffic to the internet and carrier network.

AWS Resource On Wavelength

  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
  • Amazon EKS clusters
  • Amazon ECS clusters
  • Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • AWS CloudFormation

For simple access to services running on Regional subnets, the Wavelength services are part of a VPC that is connected through a dependable connection to an AWS Region.

Working With Wavelength

  • AWS Management Console: Gives you access to a web interface via which you may use your Wavelength resources.
  • AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI): On Windows, macOS, and Linux, and offers commands for a variety of AWS services, including Amazon VPC. The services you use with Wavelength continue to operate in their own namespaces; for instance, Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS both utilize the “ec2” and “ebs” namespaces, respectively. For more information, see AWS Command Line Interface.
  • AWS SDKs: Offers APIs tailored to certain languages and handles numerous connection-related issues, like computing signatures, handling retry requests, and resolving failures. See Amazon SDKs for further details.

Last Updated : 17 Mar, 2023
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