Hyderabad (Telangana) [India]August 11 (ANI): Amazon Web Services is keen to significantly expand its data centre operations in Telangana, significantly increasing AI offerings. According to a statement from the Telangana Amazon Inc.’s chief marketing officer has expressed keen interest in making significant investments to expand its data center facilities and workforce in Hyderabad.
A team of Amazon The top management, led by Kerry Person, vice president of data centre planning and delivery at AWS, and a delegation from Telangana led by IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu, convinced Amazon to give a further push to its data centre operations in Telangana.
A data center is typically a large group of networked servers. servers Organizations use these centers to remotely store or distribute large amounts of data. Data localization plans are expected to lead to investment in data centers, as well as incentives from several states to attract such investments.
On August 4, a delegation from the Telangana government, led by the Chief Minister and the IT, landed in New York. They were scheduled to meet with business leaders in the United States and South Korea over the next 10 days.
Amazon already has a strong presence in Telangana, which includes its world’s largest corporate building in Hyderabad. Amazon has launched its exclusive air cargo network ‘Amazon Air’ in Hyderabad in 2023.
According to the statement of the CMO of Telangana, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has designated Hyderabad as a strategic region and three major data The centers are already operational.
“They shared plans to further expand their business, including a new large-scale data center in Hyderabad that is critical for AI/ML-enabled services,” the CMO added.
Minister Sridhar Babu, who led the discussions on behalf of the state, said, “Our talks with Amazon were extremely… positive and successful. We assure the corporation that we will provide them with the best incentives and full support to achieve their goals in Hyderabad. We were looking forward to a major expansion of their presence in our state.”
Speaking after the meeting, Kerry Person, vice president of data center planning and delivery at Amazon Web Services, said: “I’m excited about the opportunity to further expand our cloud.” infrastructure in Hyderabad, Telangana, as an integral component of AWS’s India strategy. We expect the AWS Hyderabad Region to play an increasingly important role in supporting the growth of AWS cloud services in India, including AI, in the near future. AWS is committed to contributing to Telangana’s digital ambitions by empowering our customers and partners across the state and country to advance India’s trillion-dollar digital transformation. economy goal.”
With the expansion of Amazon Web Services business in Telangana, the state is set to consolidate its position as a leading cloud and data centre hub. infrastructure sector in India, the CMO said.
Amazon offers a range of enterprise cloud services including computing, storage, databases, networking, machine learning, analytics and other services, which will now also include AI.
Headquartered in Washington DC, US, Amazon has a market capitalization of about USD 1.89 trillion and has a workforce of over 1.5 million worldwide. (ANI)
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