A number of news outlets in India are suggesting that cloud services provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its data centre presence in Hyderabad, India, where it already has facilities that include three big data centres and its largest corporate building globally.
It appears that, following discussions between IT and industries minister D Sridhar Babu and the AWS senior leadership team in the US, the company has said it will expand its investment in the Telangana region in southern India.
According to the minister, quoted by a number of outlets, the company has designated Hyderabad as a strategic region and is not only already operational but has shared plans for further expanding its business.
These plans, he says, include “a new hyperscale data centre in Hyderabad that is critical for AI/ML-enabled (artificial intelligence/machine learning) services”.
The minister says that AWS has been assured that it will be provided “with the best incentives and complete support to make [its] goals in Hyderabad successful”.
The Data Centre Dynamics website says AWS launched its Hyderabad cloud region in November 2022. Plans for the development region were revealed in 2020 when the company was expecting to invest US$2.8 billion in the city, following the launch of a Mumbai data centre region in 2016.
The region has three availability zones. Availability Zones consist of one or more discrete data centres, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, and housed in separate facilities.
