AWS will invest $4 billion to build a data center cluster in Hyderabad by 2030.

Amazon Web Service (AWS) on Tuesday announced an investment of $4.4 billion (about Rs 36,300 crore) by 2030 in building in Hyderabad its second data center cluster in India. The Amazon.com Inc company, through the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region, will provide developers, startups, and companies among others to “run operations with greater resilience and availability, store data securely in India, and provide end users with low latency. .” ” AWS already has a similar center in Mumbai, opened in 2016. It operates such centers in 30 locations around the world.

The demand for data centers in India has grown exponentially with the increase in data usage and cloud adoption. Rating agency Crisil estimates that data center capacity will double to 1,700-1,800MW by 2025 from the current capacity of 870MW.

This has prompted conglomerates like the Adani Group to announce huge investments in setting up data centers in multiple locations. While Oracle, in 2019, announced Gen 2 cloud regions in Mumbai and Hyderabad, and Reliance has tied up with Microsoft to provide cloud services to small and medium enterprises in the country. Hiranandani Group launched Yotta Infrastructure to build data centers in Mumbai and Chennai.

In a statement, AWS announced “the launch of its second AWS infrastructure region in India – the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. Starting today, developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as governments, educational organizations, and non-profit organizations, they will have greater choice in running their applications and serving end users from data centers in India.”

“Customers will have access to AWS’ best-in-class technology to develop new things, including data analytics, security, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI),” he said.

The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region supports India’s digital transformation and is part of AWS’ long-term investment in the country since the opening of its first office in 2011, said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at Amazon Data. Services.

“Customers and partners in India will now have more regional infrastructure to deploy applications with greater resilience, availability, and lower latency,” he said.

As part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 82 lakh crore) digital economy vision, the ‘Indian cloud’ is slated for massive expansion and innovation.

“Data centers are an important part of the digital ecosystem. AWS’s investment in expanding its data centers in India is a welcome development and can really help revitalize India’s economy,” the statement quoted Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Power and Unions. Information Technology and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship as stated.

The government’s upcoming National Cloud and Data Center policy, he said, envisages a massive increase in capacity in India from the current 565MW to over 2,565MW in the near future.

With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region, AWS now has 96 Availability Zones across 30 countries, with plans to launch an additional 15 Availability Zones and five more AWS regions in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand and Thailand. . .

AWS Regions are made up of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct locations.

The AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region consists of three locations and joins the existing AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, which opened in June 2016.

Availability Zones are spaced far enough apart to support customer business continuity, and close enough to provide low latency for high availability applications that use multiple Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected by redundant, ultra-low latency networks.

AWS “customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones for greater fault tolerance,” it said. “The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region will enable local customers with data residency preferences to securely store data in India while providing customers with the lowest latency across the country.” The investment of 4.4 billion (about Rs 36,300) by 2030 includes capital expenditure on the construction of data centers, operational costs related to ongoing facilities and facility costs, and procurement of goods and services from regional businesses.

“The investment is estimated to support more than 48,000 full-time jobs annually in foreign businesses during this period,” the statement said. “The construction and operation of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region is also estimated to add nearly $7.6 billion (Rs 63,600 crore) to India’s gross domestic product by 2030.” KT Rama Rao, Minister of IT and Industries, Government of Telangana, welcomed AWS’s commitment to invest Rs 36,300 crore in the AWS region in Hyderabad, strengthening the state’s position as a leading data center in India.