Amazon.com, Inc.
On-demand application-driven network slicing

Abstract:

Disclosed are various embodiments for on-demand application-driven network slicing. In one embodiment, it is determined that an application executed in a particular computing device has a quality-of-service requirement. The particular computing device is connected to a communications network. A request is sent that causes a network slice allocation service to reserve a network slice having the quality-of-service requirement in the communications network. Data to or from the application is transmitted using the network slice.