India Among Fastest Growing Cloud Markets For Amazon Web Services

The Asia Pacific region is a massive potential market for AWS (Amazon Web Services), according to Andy Jassy, AWS CEO. India is playing an important role in the Cloud adoption among enterprises as well as the governments.

He delivered a three hour long keynote address at the “ReInvent 2018” conference with more than 50,000 attendees. Jassy said he is pretty bullish on India.  

During a press conference, he said that in the Asia Pacific region, the business is really broad and it has a very rapid growth rate. It is growing very rapidly in India, China, Australia, Singapore and countries in the SouthEast Asian region.

He also noted that even though the company got $27 billion in revenue with a growth rate of 46 percent globally (year on year), they were still in the early days.

Andy Jassy - CEO of Amazon Web Services

The AWS of Amazon is currently leading in the Public Cloud with 51.8 percent share in the global Cloud infrastructure, followed by that is Microsoft with 13.3 percent and Alibaba with 4.6 percent.

In the Indian market, Amazon Internet Service Pvt Ltd (AISPL), a Amazon Group’s subsidiary, is responsible for the marketing and resale of AWS Cloud service.

The retail giant just launched two availability zones in AWS Asia Pacific Region in 2016 and it has had a very impressive growth in attracting new customers in this region.

For Indian public sector, the state government are moving their workloads to the Amazon Web Services platform even at a fast pace than the state government of the US, according to Vice President of the Worldwide Public Sector, Teresa Carlson.

According to Carlson, within just two years, there has already been a notable change on the Cloud adoption in Indian public sector.

She added that India is actually on the right track as its state government now have quick access to buying Cloud capabilities.

Carlson added that the company will have Public Sector Summit in New Delhi in 2020.