AWS committed to help industries increase agility-drive innovation
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) company, has launched a second AWS infrastructure region in India, the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, an investment of approx. Rs.36,300 crore.
Starting 21 Nov 2022, developers, startups, entrepreneurs and enterprises as well as government, education and non-profit organizations, will have greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from data centers located in India.
Customers will have access to advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation including data analytics, security, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).
“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,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS.
“Customers and partners in India will now have additional regional infrastructure to deploy applications with greater resilience, availability and even lower latency.
“We are proud to invest in the future of the Indian technology community and workforce, and we are committed to helping organizations across industries increase agility and drive innovation.”
Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology as well as for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, said “The Government’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 2,565 MW in the near future. We look forward to greener and more sustainable data centers to power India’s expanding economy.”
“We welcome AWS’s commitment to invest approximately Rs.36,300 crores in the AWS Region in Hyderabad, which strengthens Telangana’s position as a progressive data center hub in India,” said K. T. Rama Rao, Minister for Information Technology (IT), Industries and Commerce, Municipal Administration as well as Urban Development with the State Government.
“We recognize the power of cloud computing, which is why we have collaborated with AWS to improve e-governance, healthcare and municipal operations to benefit the citizens of Telangana. We are pleased that the new AWS Region in Hyderabad will spur more innovation and growth for many enterprises, startups and public sector organizations in India.”
With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, AWS now has 96 Availability Zones across 30 geographic regions, with announced plans to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand and Thailand. fiinews.com
