New Delhi, Sep 9 : Amazon Web Services (AWS) has invested $3.71 billion in the development of local Cloud infrastructure and creating jobs in India in the past six years, an top company executive told the media on Friday.Max Peterson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, AWS Max Peterson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, AWS, told IANS that AWS is optimistic about the nation’s digital strategy and will assist in making it an economy worth $5 trillion by 2030.
“Following the official launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region in 2016 AWS has invested $3.71 billion in local infrastructure and jobs across India,” said Peterson.
The cloud unit of Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company Amazon, AWS is set to launch 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 more resilience for cloud-based workloads that require a lot of attention with lower latency and enhanced security capabilities.
Peterson stated that he is witnessing an enormous trend towards digitalisation across all sectors in India particularly in the fields of healthcare, education, as well as the space in India.
“We are ready to assist our customers Indian government, businesses as well as startups with their journey into Cloud in the post-Covid age, since Cloud is now an integral component of every company, large or small” the chief AWS executive said.
The Mumbai and, soon, Hyderabad Cloud region will assist hundreds of thousands of Indian organizations from small businesses to multinationals and even the public sector, gain additional infrastructure to benefit from modern technologies from the world’s most renowned cloud with the most extensive and comprehensive range of cloud-based services.
AWS has expanded its services by opening the edge locations in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi and Kolkata.
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