Amazon Web Services to set up data centres in Hyderabad with investment of Rs 20,761 crore

The government of Telangana has announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) will establish data centers in three locations in the state with an estimated investment of Rs 20,761 crore.

Headquartered in Seattle, AWS, a subsidiary of Amazon, is a leading cloud computing service globally.

Telangana’s IT and industries minister K T Rama Rao stated the investment as “the largest Foreign Direct Investment in the history of Telangana.”

The AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region is expected to start operations by mid of 2022.

AWS investment is to set up an AWS Region with three Availability Zones (AZs) in Hyderabad.

“AZs consist of multiple data centers in separate distinct locations within a single region that are engineered to be operationally independent of one another with independent power, cooling, physical security, and connections via a low-latency network,” the IT department officials said.