2025-04-102025-04-10https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/209360The 6G-Cloud project is a 6G Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) project funded by European Commission. 6G-Cloud aims to investigate, create, and test key technologies to achieve an AI-native and cloud-friendly system architecture on top of the cloud continuum. It will integrate cloud resources provided by multiple stakeholders and enable network functions from different 6G network segments to be flexibly and dynamically composed according to service requirements in hybrid cloud environments. The concept will be verified by three well-defined proofs-of-concept and disseminated through 6G architectural standardization work and open-source projects to achieve maximum impact.Service-oriented 6G network architecture for distributed, intelligent, and sustainable cloud-native communication systems (6G-CLOUD)