Tune Talk becomes Malaysia’s first cloud-native mobile network on AWS

Following on from their announcement about becoming the first ASEAN telco with a large-scale cloud-native core network, Tune Talk have continued on their path by also revealing that they’ve launched the country’s first cloud-native core network on AWS.

For context, in a mobile network, the core network is essentially the intelligence layer that handles subscriber authentication, manages data sessions, processes billing and charging, and routes voice and data traffic. Traditionally, telcos run these systems on specialised hardware in their own data centres, but Tune Talk has shifted these functions to software running in the cloud.

As previously announced, Tune Talk worked with Nokia to deploy a fully 5G-enabled cloud-native core network and with Mavenir to implement next-generation operational and business systems. These systems, known as Operations Support Systems (OSS) and Business Support Systems (BSS), handle the behind-the-scenes processes that keep a mobile network running, which include network, operations and customer platforms. All of this infrastructure is now hosted on AWS within the AWS Malaysia region.

Tune Talk actually began this transition in 2024 when it migrated its operational systems from on-premises infrastructure to AWS. That move reportedly made it the first telecommunications provider in Malaysia to run its core workloads, including OSS and BSS, natively on AWS. According to the telco, the shift to a cloud-native architecture improves resilience and allows the network to scale more easily. It also means the operator can introduce new services, update plans, or roll out value-added services much faster because the infrastructure behaves more like modern cloud software rather than traditional telecom hardware.

When we migrated our core workloads to AWS in 2024, we made a deliberate bet on the future of telecommunications. Today, that bet is paying off. Launching Malaysia’s first cloud-native core network on AWS, with Nokia and Mavenir as our partners, means Tune Talk is no longer just a mobile operator.

We are a software-defined, AI-ready telecommunications provider. With our network, operations, and customer platforms all running on AWS, we have the agility to evolve as fast as our customers’ needs do,” – Gurtaj Singh Padda, Tune Talk CEO

One extra thing to note from Tune Talk’s announcement involves AWS Outposts. Tune Talk says it is the first telecommunications provider in ASEAN to run telecom user plane on this platform. By running this component on AWS Outposts, Tune Talk can process traffic with lower latency while still connected to the control plane workloads in the AWS Region.

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