Second AWS Region in India provides customers
with more options to run workloads with even greater resilience and
availability, securely store data in India, and serve end users
with even lower latency
The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region is
estimated to support an average of more than 48,000 full-time jobs
annually through a planned investment of more than $4.4 billion
(approx. INR 36,300 crores) in India by 2030
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
innovating on AWS
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the launch of its second AWS
infrastructure Region in India—the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
Region. Starting today, developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and
enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit
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). For more information
about AWS Global Infrastructure, visit
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure.
“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,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman,
vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS. “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.”
“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,” said Shri Rajeev Chandrashekhar, union minister
of state for Electronics and Information Technology and for Skill
Development and Entrepreneurship. “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.”
“We welcome AWS’s commitment to invest approximately INR 36,300
crores in the AWS Region in Hyderabad, which strengthens
Telangana’s position as a progressive data center hub in India,”
said Shri K. T. Rama Rao, minister for Information Technology (IT),
Industries and Commerce, Municipal Administration, and Urban
Development at the Government of Telangana. “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. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place
infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. The
AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region consists of three Availability
Zones and joins the existing AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region,
which opened in June 2016. Availability Zones are located far
enough from each other to support customers’ business continuity,
and near enough to provide low latency for high availability
applications that use multiple Availability Zones. Each
Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical
security and is connected through redundant, ultra-low latency
networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design
their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve
even greater fault tolerance. The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific
(Hyderabad) Region will enable local customers with data residency
preferences to store data securely in India, while providing
customers with even lower latency across the country.
AWS is planning to invest an estimated $4.4 billion (approx. INR
36,300 crores) in India by 2030 through the new AWS Asia Pacific
(Hyderabad) Region, which includes capital expenditures on the
construction of data centers, operational expenses related to
ongoing utilities and facility costs, and purchases of goods and
services from regional businesses. The investment is also estimated
to support an average of more than 48,000 full-time jobs annually
at external businesses during this time. These jobs will be part of
the AWS supply chain in India, including construction, facility
maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, and jobs within the
country’s broader economy. The construction and operation of the
AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region is also estimated to add
approximately $7.6 billion (approx. INR 63,600 crores) to India’s
gross domestic product by 2030.
Customers welcome the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
Hundreds of thousands of customers in India join millions of
active customers using AWS in more than 190 countries around the
world. Enterprises in India that choose AWS to speed time to market
and innovate include Angel One Limited, Ashok Leyland, Axis Bank,
Bajaj Capital, Broadridge, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Edelweiss,
HDFC Bank, HDFC Life, RBL Bank, Tata Elxsi, and Titan. Indian
public sector customers use AWS to lower costs, become more agile,
innovate faster, and better serve the citizens of the region. These
customers include 21K School, Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC), Common Service Centers, CropIn, Digital India
Corporation (MeitY), EnglishHelper, Government of Telangana,
Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited, NITI
Aayog, PhysicsWallah, Prasar Bharati News Services, TraceX,
University of Delhi, upGrad, and Whrrl. Indian startups, including
Acko General Insurance, Chingari, epiFi, Fibe, INDMoney, Jupiter,
Lendingkart, and Loco, are building their businesses on AWS to
scale rapidly and expand around the world.
Acko is considered India's first built-for-the-cloud general
insurance company. "Since our inception in 2016, we have run our
entire platform on AWS, which enables us to scale quickly to serve
more than 50 million customers seeking seamless insurance
experiences,” said Vishwanath Ramarao, chief technology and product
officer at Acko. “We are obsessed with making insurance effortless.
The launch of the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region will
enable us to run our applications across multiple highly available
data centers in India to provide a seamless experience for
customers while supporting our growth ambitions.”
Axis Bank, currently India’s third-largest private sector bank,
offers an entire spectrum of financial services to customer
segments covering large and mid-size corporations, small and medium
enterprises, agriculture, and retail businesses. “With AWS as our
primary cloud provider, we have successfully migrated more than 70
applications to the cloud, including digital offerings such as
virtual debit card and credit card engagement platforms. We plan to
migrate 70% of our on-premises workloads to the cloud in the next
two years,” said Avinash Raghavendra, president and chief
information officer at Axis Bank. “We welcome the launch of the
second AWS Region in India, which will enable us to further expand
the availability of our banking applications to customers, while
ensuring that their data remains onshore.”
PhysicsWallah is an educational platform in India that provides
affordable and comprehensive curricula to middle and high school
students, and for national degree entrance exams. “We have
collaborated with AWS since 2020 and use services such as Amazon
CloudFront, AWS Elemental, and Amazon Redshift to seamlessly and
securely deliver our live video classes to more than 6 million
students across India,” said Prateek Maheshwari, co-founder at
PhysicsWallah. “As user engagement across our app, website, and
YouTube channel continues to grow across the country, a second AWS
Region in India will enable us to continue to scale and provide
even lower latency for students accessing our platform.”
Tata Elxsi is a world-leading provider of design and technology
services across several industries, including the automotive,
broadcast, and healthcare sectors. Part of the Tata Group, Tata
Elxsi has over 12,000 designers, engineers, and technologists
working in more than 36 offices worldwide. "At Tata Elxsi, we
support our customers in reimagining their products and services by
applying design thinking and using innovative technologies.
Previously, our on-premises infrastructure curtailed our
capabilities to deliver high-performing differentiated consumer
experiences and services continuously. We embarked on our
digitization journey with AWS and migrated several
business-critical processes to the cloud, including our own
industry-specific software products, platforms, and R&D
projects,” said Nitin Pai, chief strategy officer and chief
marketing officer at Tata Elxsi. “AWS's robust cloud infrastructure
and affordable services enable us to launch new and innovative
solutions, scale based on our clients’ needs, and enable compliance
across different jurisdictions. The launch of the second AWS Region
in India offers a welcome boost for us to foster greater business
resilience.”
India-based AWS Partners also welcome the AWS Asia Pacific
(Hyderabad) Region
The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes tens of thousands of
independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs)
around the world. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and
services on AWS, and the APN helps by providing business,
technical, marketing, and go-to-market support to customers. AWS
SIs, consulting partners, and ISVs help enterprise and public
sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical
applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation,
and management services for customers' cloud environments. Examples
of India-based AWS Partners include Biz2credit, BlazeClan, BluePi,
Capillary, Cloud Kinetics, Darwinbox, Dataevolve Solutions,
Deloitte, Gupshup, Hostin, Infosys, Manthan, Minfy Technologies,
Powerupcloud, Progressive Infotech, Redington, Tata Consultancy
Services, Trigyn Technologies, Umbrella Infocare, and Wipro. For
the full list of AWS Partners, visit aws.amazon.com/partners.
Built-in-the-cloud systems integrator Minfy is an AWS Premier
Tier Services Partner headquartered in India with offices in
Southeast Asia, United States, and Australia. Since 2016, Minfy has
helped more than 320 commercial and public sector customers
innovate and digitally transform in the cloud. “Minfy works with
many companies, state governments, and large public sector
organizations in India, including National Skill Development
Corporation, Dalmia Bharat, Exidelife, BookMyShow, MapmyIndia, and
Tata Trusts, that build and run their service offerings at scale,”
said Vikram Manchanda, CEO at Minfy. “As many of our customers
manage highly confidential citizen data, we need to meet strict
data security and governance requirements when we migrate their
workloads to the cloud. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
will help us confidently meet these requirements while we deliver
highly reliable and available solutions that help customers improve
the quality of their service delivery for citizens with our deep
tech capabilities in healthcare, life sciences, financial services,
energy, and sustainability.”
Commitment to sustainability
As part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon is committed to reaching
net-zero carbon across its business by 2040 and is on a path to
powering its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025, five
years ahead of the original 2030 target. Amazon is the world’s
largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, and as of the end
of 2021, reached 85% renewable energy across its business. In
September, Amazon announced its first utility-scale renewable
energy projects in India—420 megawatts (MW) of combined capacity
across three solar farms located in the state of Rajasthan. Once
fully operational, these solar projects will have the combined
capacity to generate 1,076,000 megawatt hours of renewable energy
per year, enough to power more than 360,000 average-sized
households in New Delhi annually (based on the average energy
consumption per Indian household of 250 kilowatt hours from
Statista). Amazon now has 57 renewable energy projects across Asia
Pacific.
About Amazon Web Services
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been
continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud
workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for
compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine
learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things
(IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR
and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 96 Availability Zones within 30 geographic regions,
with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more
AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and
Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing
startups, largest enterprises, and leading government
agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more
agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
aws.amazon.com.
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