Amazon.com Company, Amazon Web Services is set to expand its services by including a second infrastructure region in India by mid-2022.
The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region aims to enable more institutions, businesses and non-profit organizations to run their applications and serve end users from data centers located in India.
“Businesses in India are embracing cloud computing to reduce costs, increase agility, and enable rapid innovation to meet the needs of billions of customers in India and abroad,” said Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services. “Together with our AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, we’re providing customers with more flexibility and choice, while allowing them to architect their infrastructure for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability across geographic locations.”
K.T. Rama Rao, Minister for Information Technology, Electronics & Communications, Municipal Administration and Urban Development and Industries & Commerce Departments, Government of Telangana, welcomed the decision of AWS to choose Telangana as the location for its second region in India. With AWS, Telangana will be able to boost economic development, power digital-led innovation, and establish a cloud centre hub for the rest of the country, he added.
Launched in 2006, the cloud computing platform provides many different tools and solutions to government, businesses, education and other institutions. AWS has announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland.
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