UPF instances to expand to AWS regions via Network Load Balancer (NLB) if needed. 7 The Control Plane runs on the AWS Region on the same virtual private cloud (VPC) as onpremises. Control plane functions are implemented on Amazon ECS or EKS. 6 5G Core user plane function (UPF) is implemented as micro-services on Amazon EKS taking advantage of Single-root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV), Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), and dual homing capabilities. 5 Use AWS Direct Connect to connect onpremises 5G Core components to an AWS Region for control and management. 4 5G Core User Plane Function (UPF) is deployed on AWS Outposts on-premises to provide high throughput. 3 Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) capabilities are built using AWS Outposts with Services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2),Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS),Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). 2 B
