Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) company, announced an agreement they say will strengthen data center connectivity and optimize network delivery of cloud technologies for customers across the U.S. Through its Private Connectivity Fabric solution, Lumen will provide fiber connectivity to AWS data centers, helping enterprise customers build and deliver low latency, highly scalable AI applications across AWS Regions and Local Zones.
AWS will continue to deploy its custom network technologies on this fiber, enabling security, availability, and performance between AWS locations, according to the company.
The enhanced AWS network will enable high-bandwidth and dynamic connections that provide customers with the ability to develop generative AI applications, train AI models, and deliver new AI-powered products across its four Regions (Northern Virginia, Ohio, Northern California, Oregon) and 17 Local Zones in the U.S. Local Zones are extensions of AWS Regions, and locate select AWS resources near large population and commercial centers for applications that require single-digit millisecond latency.
At the same time, Lumen says it will use AWS technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and security, to modernize its own applications and systems, and drive innovation in its portfolio of communications, network services, security, and voice products.
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