Amazon to invest $35B in India to boost AI, exports and job creation
The investment will focus on expanding AI capabilities, enhancing logistics infrastructure, supporting small business growth, and creating jobs.
Global online retailer Amazon plans to invest more than $35 billion across all its businesses in India by 2030 with a focus on business expansion, AI-driven digitisation, export growth, and job creation.
In a blog post, Amazon said this fresh investment builds on the nearly $40 billion it has deployed so far in the country, which go towards building physical and digital infrastructure, including fulfilment centres, transportation networks, data centres, digital payments infrastructure, and technology development.
“We are humbled to have been a part of India’s digital transformation journey over the past 15 years, with Amazon’s growth in India perfectly aligned with the vision of an Atmanirbhar and Viksit Bharat,” said Amit Agarwal, Senior VP Emerging Markets, Amazon in the blog post.
“We have invested at scale in growing the physical and digital infrastructure for small businesses in India, creating millions of jobs, and taking Made-in-India global,” he noted.
Amit Agarwal, Senior VP Emerging Markets, Amazon
The $35 billion investment will focus on expanding AI capabilities, enhancing logistics infrastructure, supporting small business growth and creating jobs.
Amazon has also released the 'Economic Impact Report' by Keystone Strategy where it has said that the company is the largest foreign investor in India, the largest enabler of ecommerce exports, and among the top job creators in the country.
According to the report, the investments by Amazon has digitised over 12 million small businesses, surpassed $20 billion in cumulative ecommerce exports in 2025, and will support 3.8 million direct, indirect, induced and seasonal jobs across industries in India by 2030.
These will stem from Amazon's business expansion as well as its growing fulfilment and delivery network, which simultaneously supports parallel industries including packaging, manufacturing, and transportation services.
Amazon also plans to bring the benefits of AI to 15 million small businesses. Sellers on Amazon.in already use AI-powered tools such as Seller Assistant and Next Gen Selling.
The company aims to enhance shopping experiences through product platforms such as Lens AI for visual discovery and Rufus for conversational shopping, and multilingual solutions that help overcome literacy barriers.
Amazon hopes to equip 4 million government school students with AI education and career exploration opportunities through an AI curriculum, technology career tours, and hands-on AI sandbox experiences. It is also planning teacher training programmes.
These new announcements by Amazon come on the back of multi-billion dollar announcements made by its peers and competitors, Microsoft and Google.
Microsoft plans to invest $17.5 billion between 2026 and 2030. Google has also announced an investment outlay of $15 billion for building its AI hub in India.
Edited by Swetha Kannan