# Dev Day 3: Building a Differentiated Digital Twin Architecture ## Digital Twins with Verizon 5G Edge, AWS, and Confluent Verizon is thrilled to welcome you to DevDay 2023. Our DevDay is a platform for bright minds from diverse backgrounds to come together and solve real-world challenges using their creativity, technical expertise, and of course, our APIs. If you’re a developer and looking to connect and extend the value of your machines, the time to create digital twins is now. Digital twins can help simulate, optimize, and monitor the performance of their analog counterparts. For example, you can experiment with configurations on the digital twin before deploying to the field, or detect problems before they cause damage. <CardGroup cols={2}> <Card title="MEC" url="/docs/standard-apis/private-mec/quick-api-reference"> MEC platform provides APIs for managing Multi-use Edge Computing (MEC) devices. </Card> <Card title="Edge Discovery Service" url="page:edge-discovery/overview"> 5G Edge Discovery Service API enables you to optimize your 5G Edge applications. </Card> </CardGroup> <CardGroup cols={2}> <Card title="Edge Performance Service" url="page:edge-performance/overview"> 5G Edge Performance Service provides access to KPIs relative to your device, such as network availability, MEC hostnames, downurl data throughput, upurl data throughput and many more. </Card> </CardGroup>