AWS To Invest $12.7 Billion in India (techcrunch.com) 14
Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud business in India by 2030, the e-commerce group said Thursday, as it pushes ahead to scale up the AWS infrastructure in the key overseas market at a time when it has pared back several other services in the region. From a report: The U.S. giant, which earlier invested $3.7 billion on AWS infra in India and currently maintains two data center regions in the South Asian market, said its spendings will support 131,700 full-time jobs across roles such as engineering, telecommunications and construction. Thursday's announcement is a noteworthy escalation in AWS's initial strategy. The cloud giant had earlier said that it will invest $4.4 billion on AWS in the South Asian economy.
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How does that compare to say Obama winning the Nobel prize? #trollharder
At last (Score:2, Funny)
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Investments in India always end up being negative.
Any money spent in India between pilfering, inefficiency, and incompetence will long be pissed away.
It took my current employer all of 6 months to realise a Senior Developer in India is about as competent as your average European intern, and want more money to boot. That's if they even fucking turn up for work, the sheer amount of them that took the job and just don't turn up on their first day nor communicate with you is mind blowing.
Big tech just keeps mak
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India is one of Amazon's key markets - one that is only going to get bigger in size. Shouldn't they be investing in the country to support that growth?
India has power problems, (Score:2)
because of heat. [reuters.com]
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This was last year. India has enough installed capacity. Last year, the disruption of coal supplies due to the Ukraine conflict caused issues. Power generation was never an issue otherwise - especially when it comes to tiny consumers like data centres. It is the consumer-level distribution utilities that have financial issues - unrelated to how commercial entities are supplied power.
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Back in 2009, I was employed at a company that possessed several data centers spread across India. They persuaded me to travel to the one located in Pune in order to lend a hand with certain issues we were encountering related to the local workforce and operational matters. This particular data center was relatively small, covering an area of less than 15,000 square feet. Upon my arrival, I made an unexpected discovery: the dc manager had been leasing out space within the data center to other companies, allowing them to utilize the power infrastructure. However, these companies were responsible for setting up their own network connectivity, resulting in cables running haphazardly in all directions outside the cabinets and outside of the ceiling cable channels. In the Network Operations Center (NOC), I noticed that the workers had multiple phones on their desks, with one of them specifically labeled as "malware tech support." It became evident that some of the employees were simultaneously holding multiple jobs while still being on our company's payroll. Everything then made sense, we were having issues with unresponsive workers not doing their duties in a timely manner and connectivity / stability issues with our mainframes there.
It was just a massive cluster f mess, more than I could handle. I flew back the next day as the amount of problems were above my pay grade.
I hope Amazon has better luck in India.