Amazon Web Services launches second cloud infrastructure region in India to create 48,000 jobs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday announced the launch of its second AWS infrastructure region India in Hyderabad which will support over 48,000 full-time jobs annually by 2030 through a planned investment of over $4.4 billion (Rs 36,300 crore) in the country.

The construction and operation of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region is also expected to add around $7.6 billion (Rs 63,600 crore) to India’s GDP by 2030, the company said in a statement.

The Hyderabad region will help developers, startups, entrepreneurs and enterprises as well as government, education and non-profit organizations to easily run their applications and serve end users from data centers located in the country.

“The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region continues our long-term commitment to invest in cloud infrastructure for India, provide training to advance the country with digital capabilities, create local jobs, and enable a more sustainable future,” said Puneet. It’s part of the commitment.” Chandhok, President, Commercial Business, AWS India and South Asia, AISPL.

Customers will have access to advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation, including data analytics, security, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Rahul Sharma, President, Public Sector, AWS India and South Asia, AISPL, said that with the second AWS region in India, “our customers have more opportunities to build new facilities, store critical data within India, and scale their solutions.” There’s more choice and flexibility.” ,

“The Government of India is already leading innovation and driving impact at scale with transformative initiatives including Co-WIN, eSanjeevaniOPD, and DigiLocker,” Sharma said.

The second AWS region in India provides customers with more options to run workloads with even greater resiliency and availability, securely store data in India, and serve end users with lower latency.

Millions of customers in India, including Acko General Insurance, Axis Bank, CleverTap, Digital India Corporation (MeitY), Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Government of Telangana, HDFC Bank, Jupiter, Lendingkart, National Skill Development Corporation, Physicswala and Tata. Elxsi is innovating on AWS.

“Customers and partners in India will now have additional regional infrastructure to deploy applications with greater resiliency, availability and even lower latency,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of infrastructure services at Amazon Data Services Inc.

With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region, AWS now has 96 availability regions across 30 geographies, including 15 more availability regions in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand, and announced the launch of five more AWS regions. Has been. ,

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