Amazon Web Services to Open Infrastructure Region in India Next Year

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company on Tuesday said it will open an AWS infrastructure region in India for its cloud computing platform in 2016.

"Thousands of customers in India are using AWS from one of AWS's eleven global infrastructure regions outside India. Several customers have asked us to locate infrastructure in India so they can enjoy even lower latency to their end users in India and satisfy any data sovereignty requirements they may have," Andy Jassy, senior vice president, AWS said.

"Indian customers will be able to use AWS infrastructure in India in 2016 and India will be one of AWS's largest regions over the long term."

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services offers a fully featured technology infrastructure platform in the cloud comprised of a broad set of compute, storage, database, analytics, application and deployment services from data center locations in the US, Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Japan and Singapore.

The company said customers in India are already using AWS to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, speed time-to-market, and expand geographic reach in minutes.

On Monday, Amazon announced it will launch its business loan program for small sellers later this year in eight more countries including India and China, where credit is becoming a key factor in competing for new vendors and grabbing market share.

Until now, the e-retailer has offered the service only in the United States and Japan. Amazon Lending, founded in 2012, now plans to offer short-term working capital loans in other countries where it operates a third-party, seller-run marketplace business, the head of Amazon Marketplace, Peter Faricy, told Reuters.

The countries are Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. The service is on an invite-only basis and is not open to all sellers on Amazon's platform.

Written with agency inputs