Amazon Web Services Announces 2016 India Expansion

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), announced that it will open an AWS infrastructure region in India for its cloud computing platform in 2016. “Tens of thousands of customers in India are using AWS from one of AWS’s eleven global infrastructure regions outside of India. Several of these customers, along with many prospective new customers, have asked us to locate infrastructure in India so they can enjoy even lower latency to their end users inIndia and satisfy any data sovereignty requirements they may have,” said Andy Jassy, Senior Vice President, AWS. “We’re excited to share that Indian customers will be able to use the world’s leading cloud computing platform (AWS) in India in 2016 – and we believe India will be one of AWS’s largest regions over the long term.”

AWS’s Indian customers include Hike, PayTM, ZEDO, Freshdesk, Inmobi, Capillary Technologies, HackerEarth, Getit, Ferns N Petals, redBus, etc. AWS also has a vibrant ecosystem in India, including partners that have built cloud practices and innovative technology solutions on the platform, the press release said. The AWS Consulting Partners in India include Accenture, Blazeclan, Frontier, Intelligrape, Minjar, Progressive, PWC, SaaSforce, SD2labs, Team Computers, Wipro, and many others.  Among the AWS Technology Partners in India are Adobe, Druva, Freshdesk, Indusface, Microsoft, Newgen, RAMCO, SAP, Seclore and many others.