July 17, 2020

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Amazon to invest $28 billion to build its second data center region in India

Amazon to invest $28 billion to build its second data center region in India

Amazon will invest about $2.8 billion in Telangana to set up a new AWS Cloud region in the southern state of India, a top Indian politician announced on Friday. The investment will allow Amazon to launch an AWS Cloud region in Hyderabad by mid-2022, said K. T. Rama Rao, Minister for Information Technology, Electronics & Communications, Municipal Administration and Urban Development and Industrie

s & Commerce Departments, Government of Telangana. The new AWS Asia Region will be Amazon’s second infrastructure region in India, Amazon said ina press release.

Date: 2020-11-06

URL: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/06/amazon-to-invest-2-8-billion-to-build-its-second-data-center-region-in-india/

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