Amazon Web Services (AWS) second Region (Asia-Pacific) is coming to Hyderabad, Amazon to invest Rs 20,761 crore in Telangana

by Yasmeen Firdous

Amazon Web services (AWS), an Amazon.com company has announced a FDI investment of Rs 20,761 crore ($2.77 billion) to create a new AWS region in Hyderabad, Telangana. This new AWS region is 2nd in India, as Amazon previously launched the Asia-Pacific AWS region in Mumbai in June 2016. With this new AWS region, creation of multiple data centers will be possible, and there will be three Availability Zones (AZs) in Hyderabad. It is expected that this new AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region will start operations by Mid of 2022. The state of Telangana got a super boost with this Amazon AWS announcement.

KT Rama Rao, Telangana Industries and IT Minister, tweeted this morning sharing the news of setting up of new Amazon AWS in his state and also the largest FDI investment in the history of Telangana. KTR tweeted, “Happy to announce the largest FDI in the history of Telangana. After a series of meetings, AWS has finalised investment of Rs 20,761 crore ($2.77 billion) to set up multiple data centres in Telangana. The AWS Cloud Hyderabad Region is expected to be launched by mid-2022.”

The Availability Zones (AZs) have multiple data centers in separate and distinct geographical locations within a single region and the data center characteristics include: to be operationally independent of one another in terms of power, cooling, physical security, and low-latency network connections.

With new Amazon AWS Asia-Pacific Cloud region, Telangana becomes major destination for datacenters and cloud companies.

Telangana will become a major destination of datacenter and cloud companies after this huge investment from AWS and going to attract new technology investments. Hyderabad, the capital city of Telangana is an important hub for iT services, professionals, and entrepreneurs, and this new AWS region establishment will increase operations of domains such as ecommerce, banking, governmental, ITeS, and financial services. The new AWS region with datacenters is going to support not only Telangana's IT sector and digital economy, but also cater to start-ups, enterprises, govt, education, and non-profit entities to run their business and services, with these data centers serving the last-mile end-users.

Amazon AWS has chosen Hyderabad for setting up its new region due to favorable support it received from the govt of Telangana in metrics such as transparency and efficiency, and moreover the city met the high constraints and requirements for an AWS region. "For those that are unaware Amazon’s largest campus in the world (3 million Sq Ft) & their largest fulfillment centre (FC) in Asia are also located in Hyderabad. All this in last 4 years. A reflection of how well the partnership of Amazon & Telangana have grown from strength to strength” KTR further tweeted.

Footprint expansion of AWS Asia region will lead to lower latency across South India.

The new AWS Asia Region, will be having 3 Availability Zones at launch, and will join the existing 9 AWS Regions and 26 Availability Zones across Asia in India, Australia, Greater China, Japan, Korea, and Singapore. AWS has 77 Availability Zones across 24 infrastructure regions globally, and AWS Global Infrastructure provides more details.

According to AWS news blog , "In addition to the existing region in Mumbai and the new one planned for Hyderabad, there are currently seventeen CloudFront edge locations in India: four in Hyderabad, another four in New Delhi, three in Bangalore, three in Mumbai, two in Chennai, and one in Kolkata. The edge locations work in concert with a CloudFront regional edge cache in Mumbai to speed delivery of content". As we know an edge cache speeds up delivery of content by caching content closer to end-user and with the objective of low latency. With this new AWS Asia Pacific Cloud region in Hyderabad, AWS customers will be observing lower latency all across South India.

“Together with our AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, we are providing customers with more flexibility and choice, while allowing them to architect their infrastructure for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability across geographic locations", said Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services.

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