To fulfill the growing demand for cloud services in the country, Amazon Web Services has announced that it will build two data centers at an investment of about Rs 11,624 crore ($1.6 billion) in the state of Telangana.
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The location of the first data center is proposed at Chandanvelly village in Shabad Mandal (66,003 sq.m) and the second at Meerkhanpet village in Kandukur Mandal (82,833 sq.m.). Amazon has submitted its project report for obtaining environmental clearances for the construction of the data centers. Nearly 90% of the investment would be directed towards the high-end computer and storage equipment which would be installed at these 2 data centers. Apart from these two locations, the Telangana state government will also be allocating land to Amazon to develop data centers at Raviryala in Maheshwaram. Amazon’s India VP Amit Agarwal said, “Over the last 15 years, we have invested significantly in India across 30 office spaces, the AWS APAC region in Mumbai, 50 fulfillment centers in 13 states as well as hundreds of delivery and sorting centers, creating nearly 200,000 jobs.”
Why Telangana? Hyderabad has been regarded as India’s biggest tech hub where Amazon has been constantly investing for nearly 5 years. The state of Telangana has a dedicated policy for data centers which aims to attract operators with incentives and certain advantages. In 2015, it had opened a large e-commercial warehouse to offer training to locals on how to use the platform. In 2019, AWS opened a 170,000 sq.m office with around 15,000 workers on a 9.5-acre plot in Hyderabad’s IT corridor of Gachibowli.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon launched in July 2002 that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. In aggregate, these cloud computing web services provide a set of primitive abstract technical infrastructure and distributed computing building blocks and tools. The AWS technology is implemented at server farms throughout the world and maintained by AWS. Fees are based on a combination of usage (known as a ‘Pay-as-you-go’ model), the hardware/OS/software/networking features chosen by the subscriber, required availability, redundancy, security, and service options. More Info
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