- Saturday, March 01, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday (18) announced plans to invest £10.2 billion in cloud infrastructure in India by 2030 as it looks to meet growing customer demand for cloud services in the country.
The planned investment in data centre infrastructure in India will support an estimated average of 1,31,700 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs in Indian businesses each year, AWS — Amazon’s cloud computing unit — said in a statement.
These positions, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications and other jobs, are part of the data centre supply chain in India. AWS said it plans to invest Rs 105,600 crore (£10.2 billion) in cloud infrastructure in India and added its long-term commitment in the country will reach Rs 136,500 crore (£13.2 billion) by 2030. This follows AWS’ investment of Rs 30,900 crore (£30,900 billion) between 2016 and 2022 which will bring its total investment in India to Rs 136,500 crore by 2030. “This investment is estimated to contribute Rs 194,700 crore (£18.9 billion) to India’s total gross domestic product by 2030,” the statement said.
AWS added that its investment in India has a ripple effect on the local economy in areas such as workforce development, training and skilling opportunities, community engagement and sustainability initiatives. The company has two data centre infrastructure regions in India — the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, launched in 2016, and the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, launched in November 2022.
“The two AWS Regions are designed to provide Indian customers with multiple options to run workloads with even greater resilience and availability, securely store data in India, and serve end users with low latency,” it said.
AWS has invested more than Rs 30,900 crore in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region between 2016 and 2022. This included both capital and operating expenditures associated with constructing, maintaining and operating the data centres in that region. It estimates that AWS’ overall contribution to India’s gross domestic product between 2016 and 2022 was more than Rs 38,200 crore (£3.7 billion), and the investment supported nearly 39,500 FTE jobs annually in Indian businesses.
“Prime minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India vision is driving (the) expansion of cloud and data centres in India,” India’s minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in the statement.
Puneet Chandok, president of commercial business, AWS India and South Asia, said the planned investment will “help create more beneficial ripple effects, supporting India on its path to becoming a global digital powerhouse”.
(PTI)
