Amazon to Invest $4 Billion in Building New AWS Data Centre Cluster in Hyderabad by 2030
Crisil estimates that data centre capacity in India to double by 2025 and reach 1,700-1,800MW, up from the current capacity of 870MW.
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AWS now has 96 Availability zones across 30 geographic regions
- AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region consists of three Availability zones
- This investment estimated to support 48,000 full-time jobs annually
- Amazon opened AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region in June 2016
Amazon Web Service (AWS) on Tuesday announced an investment of $4.4 billion (about Rs 36,300 crore) by 2030 in building in Hyderabad its second data center cluster in India. Amazon.com Inc company, through the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region, will provide developers, startups, and companies among others to "run workloads with greater resilience and availability, securely store data in India, and serve end users with lower latency." AWS already has a similar facility in Mumbai, which opened in 2016. It runs such facilities in 30 geographies in the world.
The need for data centres in India has shot up exponentially with the rise in data consumption and cloud adoption. Rating agency Crisil estimates that data centre capacity to double to reach 1,700-1,800MW by 2025 from the current capacity of 870MW.
This has prompted conglomerates such as Adani Group to announce big investments in setting up data centres at multiple locations. While Oracle, in 2019, announced Gen 2 cloud regions in Mumbai and Hyderabad, and Reliance has tied up with Microsoft to provide cloud services to small and medium enterprises in the country. Hiranandani Group launched Yotta Infrastructure to build data centres in Mumbai and Chennai.
In a statement, AWS announced "the launch of its second AWS infrastructure region in India – the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. Starting today, developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organisations, will have greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from data centres located in India."
"Customers will have access to advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation, including data analytics, security, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI)," it said.
The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region supports India’s digital transformation and is part of AWS’ long-term investment in the country since the opening of its first office in 2011, said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at Amazon Data Services.
"Customers and partners in India will now have the additional regional infrastructure to deploy applications with greater resilience, availability, and even lower latency," he said.
As a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 82 lakh crore) digital economy vision, the ‘India cloud’ is set for big expansion and innovation.
"Data centres are an important element of the digital ecosystem. The investments by AWS in expanding their data centres in India is a welcome development and would certainly help catalyse India’s digital economy," the statement quoted Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology and for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship as saying.
The government’s upcoming National Cloud and Data Centre Policy, he said, envisages a significant increase in India’s capacity from the current 565MW to over 2,565MW in the near future.
With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region, AWS now has 96 Availability zones across 30 geographic regions, with announced plans to launch 15 more Availability zones and five more AWS regions in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand.
AWS regions are composed of Availability zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations.
The AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region consists of three Availability zones and joins the existing AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, which was opened in June 2016.
Availability zones are located far enough from each other to support customers’ business continuity, and near enough to provide low latency for high-availability applications that use multiple Availability zones. Each Availability zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected through redundant, ultra-low latency networks.
AWS "customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability zones to achieve even greater fault tolerance," it said. "The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region will enable local customers with data residency preferences to store data securely in India while providing customers with even lower latency across the country." The $4.4 billion (about Rs 36,300 crore) investment by 2030 includes capital expenditures on the construction of data centres, operational expenses related to ongoing utilities and facility costs, and purchases of goods and services from regional businesses.
"The investment is also estimated to support an average of more than 48,000 full-time jobs annually at external businesses during this time," the statement said. "The construction and operation of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region is also estimated to add approximately $7.6 billion (Rs 63,600 crore) to India’s gross domestic product by 2030." K T Rama Rao, Minister for IT and Industries, Government of Telangana, welcomed AWS’ commitment to invest Rs 36,300 crore in the AWS region in Hyderabad, which strengthens the state’s position as a progressive data centre hub in India.
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India Second Largest Market as Global Smartwatch Market Grows in Q2 2022, Apple on Top: Counterpoint
Indian brands Noise and Fire-Boltt have surprisingly broken into the top five global brands for smartwatches this past quarter.
Apple remains in the lead, with 29.3 percent share of the global smartwatch market
- Although Apple’s market share has dropped, it remains on top
- Samsung has overtaken Huawei to take the number two spot
- The global smartwatch market has grown 13 percent YoY in Q2 2022
Apple leads the global smartwatch market as the brand with the highest market share, while strong growth from Indian brands such as Fire-Boltt and Noise have made India the second largest market for smartwatch globally, according to a new report by Counterpoint Research. The global smartwatch market grew 13 percent year-on-year in Q2 2022, with Apple remaining on top despite a slight drop in market share. Meanwhile, Samsung saw strong growth as well, to become the brand with the second largest market share for smartwatches globally.
India is the second largest market for smartwatches
The information comes via the Counterpoint Global Smartwatch Model Shipment and Revenue Tracker, Q2 2022, and offers some interesting insights into how the smartwatch space has grown in the past year. The biggest surprise in the report is the growth of Indian smartwatch brands, particularly market leaders Noise and Fire-Boltt who have made it to the top five brands for global smartwatch shipments on the back of strong performance in India.
⌚Global #Smartwatch market ⬆️ 13% YoY in Q2 2022 with #Apple retaining the top spot
⌚For the #firsttime, India became the 2nd largest smartwatch market driven by the strong #Growth of local #brands such as Fire-Boltt and Noise pic.twitter.com/sxtVvhR1mz
— Arushi Chawla (@ChawlaArushi) August 26, 2022
The Indian smartwatch market has seen massive growth, thanks to the launch of many affordable smartwatches and sensible distribution strategies by brands such as Noise and Fire-Boltt. Other brands such as Boat and Dizo have also seen some success in this segment in India, with many buyers choosing smartwatches under Rs. 5,000 over traditional wristwatches.
Apple and Samsung lead the way
Despite a small drop in market share, Apple remains the number one brand in the global smartwatch market by a long margin with a market share of 29.3 percent, driven by strong sales and margins on its premium Apple Watch series. Notably, Samsung has replaced Huawei in second place with a market share of 9.2 percent, while Huawei has dropped to third with a reduced share of 6.8 percent.
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Noise and Fire-Boltt complete the top five, while brands such as Xiaomi, Amazfit, and Garmin remain in the top eight. Noise recently launched the ColorFit Pro 4 and Pro 4 Max smartwatches in India, priced at Rs. 3,499 and Rs. 3,999 respectively. Fire-Boltt will also hope to capitalise on the momentum of the past year, and has been launching new affordable smartwatches regularly for the past few months.
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