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Hyderabad: Amazon Inc has expressed keen interest in making significant investments in expanding its data centre facilities and workforce in Hyderabad.
After a meeting with a team of Amazon senior leadership led by Kerry Person, Vice President, AWS Data Centre Planning and Delivery, the Telangana delegation in the USA led by IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu convinced Amazon to give a stronger thrust to their data centre operations in Telangana.
Amazon already has a strong presence in Telangana - including their largest corporate building in the world in Hyderabad. Amazon launched their dedicated air cargo network ‘Amazon Air’ in Hyderabad in 2023.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has designated Hyderabad as a strategic region and three big data centres are already operational. They shared plans for further expanding their business, including new hyper scale data centres in Hyderabad which are critical for AI/ML enabled services.
After the meeting, Kerry Person, without divulging the scale of the expansion, said, “I am excited by the opportunity to further expand our cloud infrastructure in Hyderabad, Telangana, as an integral component of AWS’s strategy in India. We expect the AWS Region in Hyderabad will play an increasingly important role in supporting AWS’s growth of cloud services in India, including Artificial Intelligence in the near future. AWS is committed to contributing to Telangana’s digital ambitions, empowering our customers and partners across the state and country to drive towards India’s trillion-dollar digital economy goal.”
With the expansion of Amazon Web Services business in Telangana, the state is set to consolidate its position as a leading hub for cloud and data centre infrastructure in India.
Sridhar Babu, who led the discussions for the state, said, “Our talks with Amazon were extremely positive and successful. We assured the corporation that we will provide them with the best incentives and complete support to make their goals in Hyderabad successful. We expected a huge expansion of their presence in our state.”
Amazon provides a range of cloud business services including computing, storage, databases, networking, machine learning, analytics, and other services, which will now also include AI.
Amazon, headquartered in Washington DC, USA, has a market capital of over $1.89 trillion and has a workforce of more than 1.5 million across the globe.