Amazon Web Services (AWS) is also promising to support 131,700 full-time jobs all over India
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its plans to invest US$12.7 billion into cloud infrastructure in India by 2030 to meet the growing customer demand for cloud services in India. AWS said that the latest investment will be used to build its cloud infrastructure in India and will support over 100,000 full-time jobs annually. This investment will contribute INR 1,94,700 crores (US $23.3 billion) to India’s total gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030.
“PM Narendra Modi ji’s Digital India vision is driving the expansion of cloud & data centers in India,” said Rajeev Chandrashekhar, minister of state for electronics and information technology, skill development, and entrepreneurship in India.
“India Cloud and the underlying data center infrastructure are important elements of India’s digital infrastructure and ecosystem. I welcome the Amazon Web Services (AWS) investment of $12.7 billion to expand their data centers in India. It will certainly catalyze India’s digital economy. MeitY is also working on a Cloud & Data Center Policy to catalyze innovation, sustainability, and growth of India Cloud.”
AWS has two data center infrastructure regions in India – the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, launched in 2016, and the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, launched in November 2022. AWS has invested more than Rs 30,900 crores (US $3.7 billion) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region between 2016 and 2022.
This includes both capital and operating expenditures associated with constructing, maintaining, and managing the data centers in that region. AWS estimates that its overall contribution to the GDP of India between 2016 and 2022 was more than Rs 38,200 crores (US $4.6 billion), and the investment supported approximately 39,500 FTE jobs annually in Indian businesses.
