Accelerating AI, Sovereignty, and Autonomous Networks

This report delivers a strategic analysis of AWS re:Invent 2025, spotlighting how AWS is redefining cloud and AI for telecom and enterprise. The event showcased a bold shift from simple model prompting to agentic platforms—where AI agents drive outcomes across operations, customer experience, and innovation.

Key highlights include AWS’s AgentCore framework, enabling telcos to build intelligent, outcome-driven systems, and its investment in custom silicon (Graviton5, Trainium3) to power next-generation AI workloads. The concept of AI Factories is posited as a potential game-changer for regulated industries, offering sovereign, secure environments for AI development and deployment. Appledore shares its own views on that in this report.

The report also explores telco transformation stories from BT, O2 Telefónica, AT&T, Orange, and T-Mobile demonstrating how cloud-native architectures and AI-powered autonomy are reshaping network operations, commerce, and customer engagement. BT’s vision of a Dark NOC and Ericsson’s Cognitive Loop exemplify the move toward Level 4 autonomous networking.

With insights from AWS leadership, including CEO Matt Garman, the report discusses critical themes: sovereignty in cloud architecture, hybrid strategies, and the economics of AI infrastructure. It concludes with actionable recommendations for CSPs, NEPs, and OSS vendors on platform-led operations, data governance, and partner ecosystems.

As AI, sovereignty, and automation converge, this report is essential reading for telecom leaders seeking to stay ahead in 2026. Read now to discover how AWS and its partners are shaping the future of intelligent, sovereign networks and telecom operations.

For some related free to read resources on AWS in telecom, see:

• AWS in Telecom (Analyst Day)
• Telefonica O2, Nokia and AWS
• Intelligent Platforms: The new role of OSS/BSS
• Agentic AI and OSS/BSS Transformation
• Agentic AI in Telecom.