UPDATE – 10:12AM, TUESDAY – NOVEMBER 22
New Delhi: Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday announced the launch of its second AWS infrastructure region in Hyderabad, India, which will support more than 48,000 full-time jobs annually through plans to invest over $4.4 billion (Rs. 363 billion) in India by 2030. year.
Building and operating the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region is also expected to add about $7.6 billion (Rs 636 billion) to India’s gross domestic product by 2030, the company said in a statement.
The Hyderabad region will help developers, startups, entrepreneurs and corporates, as well as government, education and non-profit organizations to easily run their applications and serve end users through data centers located in the country.
Puneet said, “The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region is part of our long-term commitment to India to invest in cloud infrastructure, provide training to improve the country’s digital capabilities, create local jobs, and enable a more sustainable future .” Chandok, President, AWS India and AISPL Commercial Business South Asia.
Customers will be able to use advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation, including data analytics, security, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).
Rahul Sharma, President, Public Sector, AISPL, AWS India and South Asia, said that with the second AWS region in India, “our customers have more choice and flexibility to build new capabilities, store critical data in India, and expand their solutions” .
The future starts today!
The AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region is now open! 🎉
This is the second region in India to join the Mumbai region, offering customers more choice and flexibility to leverage advanced cloud technologies. https://t.co/8LmlI4U1P0#IndiaBuildsOnAWS pic.twitter.com/BwnabfAJRm— AWS Cloud India (@AWSCloudIndia) November 22, 2022
“The Indian government is already leading innovation and driving impact at scale through transformational initiatives such as Co-WIN, eSanjeevaniOPD, and DigiLocker running on AWS,” Sharma said.
Second AWS Region in India gives customers more options to run workloads with greater resilience and availability, securely store data in India, and serve end users with lower latency
Hundreds of thousands 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, PhysicsWallah, and Tata Elxsi are using AWS innovate on.
“Customers and partners in India will now have additional regional infrastructure to deploy applications with higher resiliency, availability and even lower latency,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of infrastructure services at Amazon Data Services.
With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, AWS now has 96 Availability Zones across 30 geographic regions and announced plans to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five more in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand area.