The cloud unit of Amazon will invest more than $4.4 billion in the South Asian market by the year 2030.

The second cloud region in the country is located in the city of Hyderabad.

It will allow the firm to offer greater choice in the country and support over 48,000 full time jobs annually. The cloud market in India is led by Amazon Web Services, which has a number of clients in the country.

The India cloud is part of the $1 trillion Digital Economy vision of the Prime Minister. The data centre is an important part of the digital world. The Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology and for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship said that the investments by Amazon Web Services in India is a welcome development.

The company, which has 96 availability zones across 30 geographic regions, has increased its efforts to double down on its lead in the cloud computing race.

In the last three months, Amazon Web Services has announced plans to invest billions of dollars in Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates.

Amazon has poured over $6 billion into India since entering the country's e- commerce market a decade ago. In India, Microsoft has three cloud regions.

The launch of the Asia Pacific region supports India's digital transformation and is part of our long-term investment in the country. The vice president of Infrastructure Services at Amazon said that customers and partners in India will now have additional regional infrastructure to deploy applications.

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