11:10 AM EDT, 05/08/2024 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with Amazon Web Services' comments in eighth and ninth paragraphs.)

Amazon.com ( AMZN ) has struck a deal with Telefonica Germany that will see Telefonica move 1 million 5G customers to Amazon Web Services' cloud later this month, Reuters reported.

"I want to see it working for at least one to two quarters and have a roadmap to move at least 30-40% of my customer base by 2025-2026," Telefonica Germany Chief Technology & Information Officer Mallik Rao told Reuters.

Amazon Web Services and Telefonica Germany didn't provide financial details about the project, the report said, adding that Telefonica Germany has 45 million customers in the country.

"We want to make it a business to run telco workloads," Reuters quoted Amazon Web Services' Vice President Jan Hofmeyr as saying in an interview.

Hofmeyr said Amazon Web Services expects more deals with telecom operators in the next year, according to the report.

"I would say in most cases the discussion is about timing versus should we move into the cloud," Hofmeyr told Reuters.

Nokia ( NOK ) will provide the software for the Telefonica Germany project, while Amazon Web Services will provide the infrastructure, the report said.

"We've been working with telecom operators for several years, but this is the first time an existing operator will run its 5G core on AWS and marks a significant milestone for the industry," Fabio Cerone, general manager, telecom EMEA, at Amazon Web Services, told MT Newswires.

"Moving workloads to AWS simplifies operations, provides elasticity, and helps customers reduce total cost of ownership as well as energy consumption, all without sacrificing any control or ownership," Cerone said.

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