BENGALURU: Amazon will establish multiple data centres in India in 2016 with an investment of many millions of dollars, Andy Jassy, the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS) told TOI in an exclusive interaction.
Jassy said the investment could scale to billions of dollars as the region grows. "It is a very significant investment for us. We have grown very, very quickly in India. At this point we have tens of thousands of active customers in India, across enterprises, small to medium size businesses, and startups," he said.
AWS is the pioneer in cloud infrastructure services and is the world's largest in the space, with revenue expected to be $6.2 billion in 2015, out of Amazon's overall revenue of over $90 billion (most revenues now come from the e-commerce business, but AWS is growing at 40-50% annually). Research firm Synergy estimates that AWS's revenue from cloud infrastructure services in the first quarter of this year was larger than the combined revenue of its four main competitors - IBM, Microsoft, Google and Salesforce.
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