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AWS to invest $8.3 billion in Maharashtra to expand cloud computing capacity
- IBJ Bureau
- Jan 24, 2025
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $8.3 billion into cloud infrastructure in the AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region in Maharashtra to expand further cloud computing capacity in India.
This investment is estimated to contribute $15.3 billion to India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and support more than 81,300 full-time jobs annually in the local data centre supply chain by 2030, the company has said in a statement.
The $8.3-billion investment is a part of AWS’s previously announced $12.7 billion investment in cloud infrastructure in India by 2030 to meet growing customer demand for cloud services across the country.
The Maharashtra government and AWS have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the World Economic Forum in Davos to formalise the investment plan.
AWS has already invested more than $3.7 billion in its cloud infrastructure in Maharashtra between 2016 and 2022.
It has steadily expanded its presence in India over the years. The company had launched its first cloud infrastructure region in the country – the AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region – in 2016. AWS introduced its second cloud infrastructure region in India – the AWS Asia-Pacific (Hyderabad) Region – in 2022.
The company has said that these two AWS regions are designed to provide customers in India and around the world with multiple options to run workloads with greater resilience and availability, alongside low latency. “Both (the) AWS regions enable customers to securely store their data within India,” the company has added.
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