Amazon’s cloud business, Amazon Web Services, has announced plans to build a second AWS region in India and will reportedly spend $2.8bn on building out the infrastructure.
The new region will be located in the state of Telangana in the Hyderabad tech hub and becomes part of AWS’s Asia Pacific cloud. It joins the AWS region in Mumbai, which launched in mid-2016 and has three availability zones.
“As the capital and the largest city in Telangana, Hyderabad is already an important talent hub for IT professionals and entrepreneurs,” said AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr.