Digital is today most critical: Puneet Chandok, president, commercial business, AISPL, AWS India & South Asia

There is a perfect storm of digitisation taking place across businesses of all sizes,” says Puneet Chandok, president, Commercial Business, AISPL, AWS India & South Asia. According to him, the speed to digitise is much faster than ever before and AWS wants to be a big part of that journey to help India move forward across segments. In early November, Amazon Web Services announced plans to launch the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region by mid-2022. This will be the second AWS Region in India; AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region was launched in the middle of 2016. “We are committed to investing in India, and putting the power of AWS Cloud directly in the hands of customers, partners, and developers,” he tells Sudhir Chowdhary in a recent interview. Excerpts: