Google will invest $15 billion over the next five years to establish a major artificial intelligence hub in the city of Visakhapatnam, in the eastern state of Andhra Pradesh, in India. Announced by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, this will be the company’s largest AI facility outside the United States....
Amazon Commits $8.3 Billion to Expand Cloud Infrastructure in Mumbai
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced its plan to invest $8.3 billion into cloud infrastructure in the AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region, Maharashtra, by 2030. This investment aims to further expand cloud computing capacity in India, contributing an estimated $15.3 billion to India's GDP. This announcement was formalized through a memorandum...
U.S. Commerce Launches IPEF Upskilling Initiative to Train 7 million women
The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) launched the IPEF Upskilling Initiative, in support of the objectives of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). The Initiative will be a public-private endeavor to support sustainable and inclusive economic growth by providing primarily women and girls in...
Amazon Web Services Launches First Data Center in India
Amazon’s cloud computing business officially inaugurated its first data center infrastructure in India with the launch of two data centers in Mumbai, which becomes the 6th AWS Region in Asia Pacific bringing the global footprint of AWS Regions to 13. Local server infrastructure enables a quicker transfer of data between clients and Amazon’s...
Amazon Web Services Plans to Open a New Infrastructure Hub in India
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it plans to open a new “infrastructure region” in the world’s second most populous country sometime in 2016. “Tens of thousands of customers in India are using AWS from one of AWS’s eleven global infrastructure regions outside of India,” said Andy Jassy, senior vice...
Google, Amazon Expect to Spike Sales in India
Internet Multinational Companies are growing fast in India. Last month, Google announced the setting up of its largest campus outside the U.S., in Hyderabad, India. The 2 million square feet facility — the first company owned premises in Asia — is expected to house 13,000 employees when it’s ready in...