Amazon's AWS expands its presence in India

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud arm, has started two new Edge locations for its Amazon CloudFront and AWS Direct Connect offerings in Hyderabad and New Delhi, expanding its presence in India.

With this, the company's total Amazon CloudFront locations in the country reaches to 11 points of presence including three locations each in Mumbai and Delhi, two locations each in Chennai and Hyderabad and one location in Bengaluru. Amazon CloudFront has 166 points of presence across 65 cities and 29 countries globally.

Navdeep Manaktala, Head of Business Development, Amazon Internet Services Private Limited, said, "Our investment in growing the Amazon CloudFront and AWS Direct Connect footprint in India is a result of the strong customer momentum we are seeing for content delivery services." 

"Amazon CloudFront securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, and AWS Direct Connect helps customers establish a dedicated network connection to AWS Cloud; and our intent is to make this easier for customers across the country. We’ll continue to invest in expanding AWS infrastructure across the country to meet the growing needs of our customers and accelerate their cloud adoption journey" he further stated.