AWS breaks ground for data centre project
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has commenced construction on a new data center project in Future City, Hyderabad, as part of its significant investment strategy in India. The company plans to invest over $21 billion in cloud infrastructure over the next four years, contributing to a total of $48 billion across its businesses in the country. This expansion is expected to enhance the local economy and create a talent pipeline through AWS's training programs.
Data centre major Amazon Web Services has begun construction work at its data centre project at Future City (on the outskirts of Hyderabad), expanding the AWS (Asia Pacific) Hyderabad Region.
The company, which invested over $1.3 billion in cloud infrastructure in the AWS (Asia Pacific) Hyderabad Region so far, plans to invest over $21 billion into cloud infrastructure in the country over the next four years. This is part of the $48 billion planned investment recently announced by the company’s CEO, Andy Jassy, across the company’s businesses in India.
Addressing a gathering after taking part in the ground-breaking works here on Wednesday, Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy said that the US-based data centre major would invest ₹1 lakh crore by 2034 to expand its data centre footprint in the State.
“Amazon’s project would accelerate the flow of investments into the State. It will pave the way for other companies and industries to set up their operations in the Future City,” he said.
He said that the government would hold monthly review meetings to take stock of Amazon’s investments in the State.
“Since we launched AWS infrastructure in Hyderabad back in 2022, we have deepened our investment and commitment to build sustainable cloud data centre operations in Telangana to help meet the growing demands of Digital India and the India AI Mission,” Anurag Khilnani, AWS Director of Data Centre Delivery, said.
“The support of the State government of Telangana has been essential to fast-tracking the build of India’s digital backbone in Hyderabad. We look forward to continuing to invest in the State into the local data centre supply chain, local workforce and the local community to serve India’s growing digital and AI ambitions,” he said.
Amazon is also building career pathway programmes to create a talent pipeline for data centre infrastructure in India.
The Amazon Data Centre Skilling Programme in India, now in its fourth year, equips participants with the technical skills needed to build careers in data centre operations. Developed in partnership with the AWS Data Centre Operations team, the programme provides theoretical and hands-on training in Critical Facilities Operations Management and Critical Compute Operations to students in Hyderabad.
AWS has trained more than 10 million individuals in India in cloud skills since 2017 through programs such as AWS Skill Builder, AWS Educate, and AWS re/Start, an Amazon spokesperson said.
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