Dish will put its 5G network into the cloud with AWS 22 APR 2021 US 5G newcomer Dish Network tapped Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host its RAN and core networks, the first time an operator in the nation will run its customer-facing operations on public cloud-based infrastructure. Since Dish Network is building its open RAN 5G network from scratch, it has the option to choose a 100 per cent cloud-based network. The expected advantages are lower cost, faster scalability and the ability to offer enterprise customers more value. Dish Network claims the cloud architecture can offer its enterprise customers value in two ways.