India is a strategic market for AWS: India head Sandeep Dutta

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading global cloud computing company, sees India as one of its key strategic markets as the country provides the opportunity to build population-scale solutions and also engage with startups.

AWS is a technology partner for several citizen-focused technology initiatives of the government, such as DigiLocker, Digiyatra, Government e Marketplace (GeM), and National Health Authority. It is also engaged with new-age companies such as Zomato, Paytm, and Dhan.

Interacting with the media on the eve of AWS Bengaluru Summit 2026, Sandeep Dutta, President - India & South Asia, AWS said, “It is our ability to take technology and innovate at scale which is probably not seen anywhere else.”

He noted that AWS has a large expanse of customers, be it the government using AI to create citizen-scale impact or enterprises creating relevant industry-specific solutions for competitive advantage.

In December last year, Amazon announced 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. This investment is in addition to the nearly $40 billion it has already deployed in the country.

In May 2023, Amazon announced plans to invest $12.7 billion in India by 2030 in local cloud infrastructure. This included creating two cloud regions in Mumbai and Hyderabad.

“We see very broad-based demand in India, and it is not just for cloud but also AI,” said the India head of AWS and added, “We continue to deepen our investments and bring the full stack of services.”

Now AWS is going full steam ahead with AI as it brings to the marketplace the full stack, which includes the hardware platform and the platform to build applications and services associated with this technology.

“Our endeavour is to ensure that we work with our customers to ensure that we are able to use generative AI to create a source of competitive advantage for them,” said Dutta.

Globally, the AI services of AWS reached an annual revenue run rate of $15 billion for the first quarter of 2026.

AWS has also been engaged in skilling initiatives in India. Since 2017, it has trained more than 7 million individuals in cloud and data skills.

Dutta said the motto for AWS in the country is to build from India, for India and for the world.