AWS to open Second Cloud Region in India's Hyderabad Region by 2022

Amazon has now announced that it will introduce a second cloud infrastructure region in Hyderabad. In an announcement, India's Telengana state noted that AWS plans to invest $2.77 billion (Rs 20,761 crore) to create multiple data centers in Hyderabad.

Amazon Cloud computing resources, hosted in multiple locations across the globe, consists of AWS regions, local zones, and availability zones. Thus, each AWS region consists of multiple and isolated data center locations known as availability zones.

Executive Opinion

Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services, said, "Businesses in India are embracing cloud computing to reduce costs, increase agility, and enable rapid innovation to meet the needs of billions of customers in India and abroad. Together with our AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, we’re 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."

K.T. Rama Rao, Minister for Information Technology, Electronics & Communications, Municipal Administration and Urban Development and Industries & Commerce Departments, Government of Telangana, said, "We are pleased that AWS has chosen Telangana as the location for its second region in India. Hyderabad is an important talent hub for IT professionals and entrepreneurs, and with the increased adoption of cloud computing, we are set to see a transformation in the way businesses in south India harness the power of IT. Combining the unique resources of Telangana with AWS, the world’s leading cloud, will boost economic development, power digital-led innovation, and establish a cloud center hub for the rest of the country."

AWS' Cloud Region in Hyderabad

These availability zones are technology infrastructures present in distinct geographical locations with enough distance to reduce the risks of a single event impacting customer business opportunity while also providing low latency for applications that require availability applications.

AWS said that its customers would have the option to run applications in multiple availability zones to achieve greater fault tolerance.

The new AWS Asia region in Southern India will consist of three availability zones at launch. It will join the other Amazon Web Services regions and 26 availability zones across Korea, Singapore, Greater China, Australia, Japan, and India. Across the world, AWS has a total of 77 Availability Zones across 24 infrastructure regions. The company stated that it intends to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland.

The new infrastructure region will enable more start-ups, developers, and enterprises from the verticals of the education, government, and non-profit organizations to serve the end-users from the data centers located in India.

It would also offer customers additional infrastructure to leverage advantaged technologies from the world-leading cloud service, which includes the database, storage, analytics, machine learning, IoT, and others.

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