Amazon Has Invested $3.71 bn in Cloud Infra, Jobs in India Since 2016

SEATTLE, WA (IANS) – Amazon Web Services (AWS) has invested $3.71 billion in building local Cloud infrastructure and creating jobs in India in the last six years, a company executive said on September 9.

Amazon also said the company is bullish on the country’s digital vision and will help it become a $5 trillion economy by 2030.

The cloud arm of e-commerce giant Amazon, AWS is set to open a second infrastructure Cloud region in Hyderabad with three availability zones.

The Hyderabad Cloud region will join the existing Mumbai region to provide customers with even greater resiliency for critical cloud workloads, lower latency, and improved compliance capabilities.

Amazon said that there was great momentum towards digitization across the spectrum in India, especially in the areas of education, healthcare, and space in the country.

The Mumbai, and soon Hyderabad Cloud region, will help hundreds of thousands of Indian organizations, from startups to enterprises and the public sector, get additional infrastructure to leverage advanced technologies from the world’s leading cloud with the broadest and deepest suite of cloud services.

AWS has also expanded its services through edge locations in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Kolkata.