Amazon Announces Additional $13 Bn Investment in India

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday held a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. During the meeting, Jassy reiterated Amazon’s long-term commitment to India, and announced plans to invest an additional USD 13 billion in the country to expand AI and cloud infrastructure by 2030.

In December last year, the e-commerce giant had announced plans to invest more than USD 35 billion in the Indian market through 2030.

The investment will expand AWS data center capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad, enabling access to custom AI chips to startups, enterprises and government organizations. It also paves the way for access to managed AI services and cloud technologies.

Amazon’s cumulative investments in India from 2010 and 2030 stand at over USD 88 billion.

“We came to India over a decade ago and have since been serving customers, sellers, developers, start-ups and enterprises through our different businesses. The response has been tremendous with strong growth especially across our ecommerce, AI and cloud businesses. As we grow Amazon in India, our business priorities continue to align with India’s priorities of democratizing access to AI, digitizing small businesses, creating jobs and enabling exports. We are investing over $48 billion in the coming five years to meet the strong demand across our business in India and to help the country achieve these priorities. We are inspired by Prime Minister Modi’s vision of a Viksit and Atmanirbhar Bharat and we are committed to being a long-term partner in India’s growth story,” Jassy said in a post.

During his India trip, Amazon CEO also held a meeting with Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, to discuss the company’s commitment to the state.

According to the company, Jassy held discussions on a variety of topics including support to Maharashtra’s digital economy through exports enablement for local sellers and manufacturers and through skilling programmes that are preparing young professionals for the jobs of the future.

Additional USD 13 billion

The additional investment brings Amazon’s total AI and cloud investment plans in India to more than USD 21 billion between 2026 and 20230. As mentioned above, the Mumbai and Hyderabad centres will bring access to high-performance Trainium chips and AWS’s leading inference engine Amazon Bedrock.

“With Amazon Kiro and Quick, developers and information workers across India are rapidly building and benefiting from advanced AI and agentic capabilities. Hundreds of thousands of Indian enterprises, startups, and government agencies are already using AWS to build, train and deploy AI workloads at production scale, including National Health Authority, Government e-Marketplace, Apollo Tyres, Delhivery, Physics Wallah, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank and many others,” the company said in a post.

Hyperscaling Quick Commerce

Earlier, Amazon announced that it is going to scale up its quick commerce foray “Now” to over 300 cities and build India’s largest ‘delivery in minutes’ network.

It also announced the company will scale up its specialized fulfilment infrastructure to offer “the largest selection of products to customers across the country when they need them tens of thousands of products delivered in minutes or a few hours, a wider selection of over one million within the same-day, over four million the next day and millions more with unlimited, free & fast Prime Delivery.”

The company has also introduced ‘Sammaan’, a program focused on the welfare of gig workers associated with the company.