Amazon will Set up AWS Data Centers In India Next Year

By Kamal Nayan - 30 Jun '15 09:47AM

Amazon is expanding its public data center infrastructure to India. Amazon Web Services (AWS), launched in 2006, offers cloud computing services for companies of all sizes.

While thousands of firms in India already use AWS, the launch of a local server infrastructure effectively lowers the latency, making the transfer of data between client and Amazon's servers faster, Venture Beat noted.

"Moreover, local data centers help to satisfy any data sovereignty requirements they [customers] may have," said Andy Jassy, senior vice president, AWS, in a press release.

According to reports, AWS is $5 billion business and has emerged at the forefront of the cloud infrastructure market ahead of the likes of Google, Microsoft, IBM, VMware, and Rackspace. It has five times more computing capacity than the 14 other key vendors.

Amazon said there are more than one million AWS customers, which includes startups, enterprises, and government bodies.

Amazon is yet to reveal the exact location of the AWS data center that it's going to open in India.