AWS launches infra region in Hyderabad with a goal of investing $4.4 billion by 2030
- ByStartupStory | November 22, 2022
The AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Zone, a second infrastructure region for Amazon Web Services (AWS), has begun operations in India.
According to a statement from the firm, the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region is anticipated to support more than 48,000 full-time jobs annually with a planned investment of more than $4.4 billion (about Rs 36,300 crore) in India by 2030.
According to the announcement, there will be more options starting today for developers, startups, businesses, and enterprises, as well as for the government, nonprofits, and educational institutions, to host their applications and provide end-user services from data centers in India.
“The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region supports India’s digital transformation and is part of our long-term investment in the country since opening our first office in 2011. Customers and partners in India will now have additional regional infrastructure to deploy applications with greater resilience, availability, and even lower latency,” Vice-President for Infrastructure Services Prasad Kalyanaraman remarked.
Acko General Insurance, Axis Bank, Clevertap, Digital India Corporation (MeitY), Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, the Government of Telangana, HDFC Bank, Jupiter, Lendingkart, the National Skill Development Corporation, PhysicsWallah, and Tata Elxsi are just a few of the thousands of Indian clients who are using AWS to innovate.
“As a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s $1 trillion digital economy vision, the ‘India cloud’ is set for big expansion and innovation. Data centers are an important element of the digital ecosystem. AWS’s investment in expanding their data centers in India is a welcome development that would help catalyze India’s digital economy,” the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, as well as for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, stated.
“The Government of India’s upcoming National Cloud and Data Center Policy envisions a significant increase in India’s cloud computing capacity from the current 565 MW to over 2565 MW in the near future. We look forward to greener and more sustainable data centers to power India’s expanding economy,” he continued.
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