India infrastructure to get $16.4 bn boost from AWS by 2030

India would continue to remain a priority for extensive investment and strategic partnerships on part of his company over the upcoming decade, affirmed Jaime Valles, Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan, of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The global cloud computing major AWS has so far invested $3.7 billion in India’s local infrastructure and has plans to pump in another $12.7 billion by 2030, which should take the total investment figure to $16.4 billion.

This investment should create around 1,30,000 jobs annually and boost the GDP growth of India by nearly $23.3 billion. Sustainability is high on the list of priorities for AWS, too, and the company aims to achieve 100 per cent utilisation of renewable energy by 2025 and a water positive status by 2030.

Valles laid out his company’s India vision while delivering the keynote address at the ongoing AWS Summit in Bengaluru. He observed that India with its diverse and multilingual identity as a nation presents endless opportunities of growth that aligns with the MNC notion of building a prosperous future on a global scale, and at the same time creates scope for innovation through direct customer feedback.

The AWS Vice President noted as far as Indian tech giants were concerned, more than 80 per cent of their revenues came from abroad, Hence, boosting prospects of these companies in the domestic market could reap benefits on a global scale.

Valles said the realisation of AWS’ India vision would be based on a four-pillar strategy that focussed on the expansion of infrastructure access, the development of skills, empowering partners and the ensuring of security. As a part of the plan, the company hopes to incorporate tech inclusion on a wider scale, ensure AI training for staff, bring about achievable solutions and encourage collaboration.

He spoke of the AWS culture of prioritising customers and arriving at decisions based on data and facts, and noted how his firm was always open to experiment and learn from errors. Valles encouraged guests at the Summit to actively seize the opportunity to learn at the event and reiterated the AWS commitment to help shape a bright future for India.