Cloud Service Providers' Publicly Announced Contracts with Communications Service Providers: Full-Year 2022

This IDC Market Perspective provides information on publicly announced cloud service provider contracts with communication service providers for full-year 2022. Announcements are segmented into three categories: deals that are for BSS/OSS and back-office IT support, outsourcing of network functions, and service partnerships. The cloud service providers covered in this document are AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM, and Oracle."Cloud service providers have become key partners for communication service providers," says Daryl Schoolar, program vice president, IDC's Worldwide Telecommunications Insights. "Cloud service providers play an important role in helping telecom service providers transform themselves and create new ways of doing business to meet the rapidly changing requirements of their end users."