Tech giants’ race to exploit the lucrative edge of cloud computing may leave carriers scrambling for the crumbs.

#Edge computing risks turning network operators into providers of dumb pipes

• Telco’s face risk of #disintermediation, from offerings like #AWS Outpost, #Azure Stack and #Google Stadia

• For example: Enterprise customer data can enter a network via AWS Outpost at one end, and travel to and from centralized servers without being exposed to the public internet, remaining on a private network

• The value of intelligent edge analytics is then delivered by big Tech players…

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-21/cloud-giants-amazon-and-google-are-going-after-edge-computing