AWS plans to invest $16.4 billion in India's local cloud infrastructure by 2030, contributing $23.3 billion to India's GDP
Amazon Bedrock became generally available to customers worldwide through select regions in 2023, and now it has been expanded to the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region; Image: Noah Berger / AWS via Reuters
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of its generative AI service Amazon Bedrock for the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, at the ongoing AWS Summit in Bengaluru. With Bedrock, customers can build and scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications with ease and in the most secure manner.
In 2023, AWS announced plans to invest $12.7 billion in India’s local cloud infrastructure by 2030. This brings AWS’s total investment in India to Rs 1,36,500 crore ($16.4 billion) by 2030. This investment will contribute $23.3 billion to India’s GDP by 2030, and support approximately 131,700 full-time jobs annually at local businesses.
Bedrock became generally available to customers worldwide through select regions in 2023, and now it has been expanded to the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. This will help support customers across the country, including public sector organisations and companies in regulated industries.
During the press briefing, Shalini Kapoor, chief technologist–APJ public sector, director–AWS India and South Asia, explained the need for deploying generative AI workloads closer to end users, which will also help customers with low latency needs. Low latency is especially important for Gen AI applications in delivering faster processing and response times. “Our customers value choice; some prefer to build from scratch, while others prefer models tailored for specific use cases. We want to provide organisations in India with the performant, cost-effective infrastructure they need to build with generative AI,” said Kapoor.
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