AWS to set up data centre in Hyderabad, invest ₹20,761 cr

TELANGANA’S IT MINISTER TALKED TO AWS OFFICIALS IN DAVOS EARLIER THIS YEAR ABOUT THE INVESTMENT

NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Friday announced setting up of its second data centre region in India in Telangana that will be operational by mid-2022, and will see the tech giant investing about ₹20,761 crore.

While AWS did not comment on the investment detail, Telangana IT and industries minister KT Rama Rao tweeted that AWS will invest ₹20,761 crore ($2.77 billion) to set up multiple data centres in the state.

“Happy to announce the largest FDI in the history of Telangana! After a series of meetings, AWS has finalised investment of ₹20,761 Cr ($ 2.77 Bn) to set up multiple data centers in Telangana. The @AWSCloud Hyd Region is expected to be launched by mid 2022,” he tweeted.

Rao, in a statement said AWS is investing to set up an AWS Region with three Availability Zones (AZs) in the state.

AZs consist of multiple data centres in separate locations within a single region that are engineered to be operationally independent of one another.

The minister had met officials from AWS during his Davos visit earlier this year and subsequently arrived at the closure on the investment in a swift manner, the statement noted.

In a virtual briefing, AWS said the new ‘AWS Asia Region’ in Hyderabad will consist of three AZs at launch and join the existing nine Amazon Web ServicesRegions and 26 AZs across Asia in India, Australia, Greater China, Japan, Korea, and Singapore.

“The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region will enable even more developers, startups, and enterprises as well as government, education, and nonprofit organisations to run their applications and serve end users from data centres located in India,” Amazon Internet Services President Commercial Business (AWS India and South Asia) Puneet Chandok said.