Embracing cloud tech critical for India to meet $5-trillion economy goal: AWS CEO Adam Selipsky

India is an “incredibly energised, high growth market,” according to Adam Selipsky, the newly appointed chief executive officer of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the $80 billion cloud computing arm of online retail giant Amazon. In the coming decade, the Seattle company will invest about $12.7 billion to expand its business in India, he told ET while pointing to India’s “tremendous” economic development in the previous ten years.

AWS, which hosts two of the largest digital public infrastructures (DPI) to be built out of India – document storage network DigiLocker and vaccination platform Cowin— is now seeing “real appetite and potential for India-based organisations” to establish these applications in other parts of the world,