wiredInUSA December 2020

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Increased cloud coverage

Amazon Web Services is spending $2.8 billion to build a new AWS Cloud region in Hyderabad, the capital of, and largest city in, Telangana, India. “Hyderabad is already an important talent hub for IT professionals and entrepreneurs,” said AWS’s Jeff Barr, in a blog post. “We have been investing in India for quite some time, and opened our first office there in 2011. “This upcoming infrastructure region in Hyderabad is the latest in a long series of investments that we continue to make in India to power continued customer growth and provide more choices to our customers in India.”

With India among the fastest growing telecommunication countries in the world, the Hyderabad region is AWS’s second in India; Amazon Web Services launched an AWS region in Mumbai in 2016. In 2019 AWS expanded the Mumbai region to include a third availability zone. The Hyderabad AWS Cloud region, which will be part of AWS’s Asia Pacific cloud, is scheduled to open in mid-2022 with three availability zones. The company also announced a new European cloud region in Zurich,Switzerland to join the European roster of existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and the UK.

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wiredInUSA - December 2020