Telenor Group is set to invest NOK100 million ($9.45m) in its sovereign cloud posture, using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Skygard's upcoming data center.
The Nordic telco will collaborate with AWS, using the latter's sovereign-by-design infrastructure for Telenor's sovereign cloud offering.
In addition, the company plans to use the AWS solution to host its internal workloads.
The infrastructure will be hosted in the Skygard data center, which is currently under construction in Oslo, Norway. Telenor is the anchor tenant of the data center, having invested in it alongside Hafslund, and HitecVision. Each company has a 31.7 percent stake, with Analysys Mason holding the remaining five percent.
"Telenor is strengthening its collaboration with AWS to power our next wave of growth and innovation," said Amol Phadke, EVP and group CTO of Telenor. "Building on our sovereign cloud posture, Telenor will unlock new opportunities to drive value for our customers and wider society."
Beyond using the Stargard data center, AWS and Telenor will look to further scale its ongoing collaboration in Sweden and Finland.
"Telenor and AWS have a shared commitment to innovation,” said Jan Hofmeyr, VP of AWS EC2 Edge. “We are excited to strengthen our collaboration by accelerating Telenor's cloud transformation on AWS, and modernize Telenor’s data centers with AWS infrastructure, starting with Sweden and Finland."
DCD has contacted AWS to clarify if the above statement means that the company has also already deployed infrastructure in Telenor data centers located in Sweden and Finland.
This latest announcement is an expansion of the existing agreement between Telenor and AWS. In 2022, the two companies jointly invested in delivering 5G and Edge services for customers in industries such as manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics.
Through that agreement, Telenor was set to scale its cloud footprint using a combination of cloud technologies from AWS.
Telenor was already a member of the AWS Partner Network and had implemented a mobile core running in the cloud for Vimla, Telenors's virtual mobile network operator brand in Sweden.
AWS has a cloud region in Stockholm, Sweden, that was launched in 2018. The region has three availability zones - i.e. three separate data centers. Earlier this year, the cloud giant announced plans for a sovereign cloud region hosted in Brandenburg, Germany.
