Nokia and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced an expansion of their collaboration to run Nokia's Autonomous Network Fabric on AWS, giving telecommunications operators access to AI and cloud services aimed at Level 4 network autonomy. Availability is expected later in 2026.

The Autonomous Network Fabric combines intent-based service orchestration, AI-powered anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and closed-loop resolution across multi-domain, multi-vendor networks. It includes four core capabilities: unified data management, agentic AI for service operations, digital twin simulations, and intent-based networking.

Running on AWS, Nokia's platform will use cloud AI and machine learning services, including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, to provide elastic scalability and global availability. Nokia said it is also engineering a cloud footprint designed to reduce compute and storage requirements compared with traditional on-premises deployments.

"Autonomous networks have gone from far-off vision to business imperative," said Oguz Sunay, CTO of AI and Autonomous Networks at Nokia. "Together with AWS, we're building a platform that scales operators' ambitions while maintaining the control and governance they need."

Amir Rao, global director for Telco Solutions at AWS, said the collaboration aims to compress "years of transformation into months, delivering step-change improvements in cost efficiency and revenue growth."

According to Nokia's statement, operators using its autonomous networks portfolio have achieved automation rates exceeding 90%, service delivery times of four hours or less, and service interruptions of one minute per year or fewer, along with up to an 85% reduction in network slice rollout time and up to 50% fewer customer-impacting incidents.

The announcement follows prior joint activities between the two companies, including a showcase of agentic AI-powered network slicing at MWC in March 2026 alongside du and Orange, and the launch of what Nokia described as the first commercial mobile service on 5G Core SaaS on Belgium's Citymesh network in February 2026.