Amazon Launches Second Cloud Region In India, Pledges $4.4 Billion Investment

Amazon has set up its second AWS region in India and says the cloud unit will invest more than $4.4 billion in the South Asian market by 2030, part of the company's attempts to widen its growing cloud tentacles across the globe. TechCrunch reports: The retailer said Tuesday that it has launched an AWS infrastructure region in the city of Hyderabad, its second cloud region in the country. An additional AWS datacenter cluster will allow the firm to offer "greater choice" in the country and support over 48,000 full-time jobs annually, Amazon said. AWS, which leads the cloud market in India, has amassed a number of major clients in the country including Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, Niti Aayog, PhysicsWallah and Acko. "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. The investments by AWS in expanding their data centers in India is a welcome development and would certainly help catalyze India's digital economy," said Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology and for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, in a statement.

Clouds?

[Mr. Dollar Ton]

Are they enough to keep all those Indian servers cool during their 60+ degree summers? (Nobody knows or cares about your weird and incomprehensible non-standard temperature units, sorry.)

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[ap7]

45 degrees Celsius, not 60. Of course, surface temperatures for some materials or roads and roofs may go up to that level. But the ambient temperature in the Hyderabad area rarely goes above 45. Doubt if there is anywhere in India with 60-degree temperatures.

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[Mr. Dollar Ton]

Then we don't have enough global warming!

Money talks bullshit walks

[ghoul]

India passed data privacy laws which says data of Indian's needs to stay in India. Many big tech threatened to leave but one by one all are falling in line by creating data centers in India. This ends the ridiculous situation where Indian data resided on US servers and any tom, dick or harriet of a DA could subpoena it to further an agenda. Indian data cant be trusted to a legal system where prosecutors are politicians rather than legal professionals and prosecutorial discretion runs the system rather than

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[SvnLyrBrto]

Bullocks. India isn't doing this out of any respect for anyone's privacy. What Modi thinks that "Indian data cant be trusted to" is any potential that said data could be beyond the reach of his own clutches, same as Putin and his dictates wrt/ data about Russian peoples' communications. Seriously... read about the Modi himself, the BJP, and the RSS. The guy is a more articulate, softer-spoken, actually intelligent counterpart to trump... a very dangerous combination.

Hell, India has been moving towards r

Political American Judiciary

[ghoul]

The point is keeping the data out of the clutches of American judiciary which is highly politicized. As long as the data is kept in a country where the law is not used for political purposes Indians will be satisified. Just so happens India is a convenient place to keep the data with ready availability of tech staff to maintain data centers and a judiciary which is fiercely independent. India's supreme court judges are not appointed by the politicans. The existing judges appoint new judges. Unlike US where

They pretty much have to...

[rickb928]

India is becoming/has become protective of Indian citizen data privacy. Ask around the payment industry, and the big legacy firms are not using any AWS etc., they just have to prevent Indian citizen data from leaving the shores. Localization some call it.

So AWS is positioning themselves to survive and profit from this general policy direction...