Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to invest 1,05,600 crores (US $12.7 billion) into the Indian cloud infrastructure market by 2030 to meet growing customer demand in the country.

The investment, announced at the AWS Summit in Mumbai, is planned to be for India’s data centre infrastructure and will support more than 130,000 full-time equivalent jobs in Indian businesses each year, ranging from construction and engineering, to telecoms. [1]

Figure 1. By 2030, AWS will invest $13 billion in the cloud infrastructure in India

By 2030, AWS will invest $13 billion in the cloud infrastructure in India is shown in figure 1. The US company’s cloud business, which has data centers in the Mumbai and Hyderabad regions, already invested $3.7 billion in India from 2016 to 2022, it said in a statement Thursday. The fresh outlay will include spending in construction, server computers and telecommunications infrastructure.

Global tech companies from Apple Inc. to Netflix Inc. are expanding in the world’s most populous country with services such as video streaming and online retailing, while Wall Street banks and global insurers have long operated tech centers in the country. Such businesses are accelerating the growth of India’s cloud-services market, which researcher IDC sees growing at an average rate of 23% a year to reach $13 billion in 2026.[2]

The Future of AWS in 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that provides a wide range of services and tools to help businesses achieve their goals. It offers flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness which makes it the go-to choice for many companies. Here we will discuss the key to the future of AWS in 2023 and what makes it unique compared to other cloud computing platforms.

Amazon’s cloud-based computing platform, AWS (Amazon Web Services), is an extensive and constantly expanding cloud service. It combines infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and bundled software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for its clients. An enterprise may benefit from AWS services by receiving resources like computing power, database management systems, and multimedia delivery companies.

Exploring The Key Features of The Future of AWS in 2023

AWS has several features that make it stand out from the competition such as its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which allows users to create virtual machines with ease. It also offers a variety of storage solutions such as S3 and Glacier which can be used for long-term storage or archiving data. Additionally, AWS provides managed services such as database management, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, serverless computing, and more. All these features combined make AWS one of the most comprehensive cloud platforms available today. The future of AWS in 2023 looks bright with more features being added regularly and an ever-growing user base. [3]

“AWS’s investment in India has a ripple effect in the local economy in areas, such as workforce development, training and skilling opportunities, community engagement, and sustainability initiatives,’‘ he further said.

AWS currently has two data centre infrastructure regions in India, in Mumbai and Hyderabad and the cloud provider plans to set up two more such infrastructure facilities in Bengaluru and Chennai in a year.

According to Mr. Chandok, AWS has trained more than 29 million people, four million in India, with cloud skills since 2017.[4]

References:

1. According to Mr. Chandok, AWS has trained more than 29 million people, four million in India, with cloud skills since 2017.[4]
2. https://www.telerik.com/blogs/future-hosting-edge-computing
3. https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/amazon-to-invest-12-7-billion-in-india-cloud-infrastructure-by-2030-123051800169_1.html
4. https://www.sevenmentor.com/the-future-of-aws-in-2023
5. https://www.thehindu.com/business/amazons-cloud-unit-to-invest-13-billion-in-india-by-2030/article66864835.ece

Cite this article:

Gokula Nandhini K (2023), By 2030, AWS will invest $13 billion in the cloud infrastructure in India, Anatechmaz, pp.101