Cloud pioneer expands global infrastructure footprint with new Asia
Pacific (Mumbai) Region, providing Indian customers a local choice to
build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud
Organizations including NDTV, Ola, STAR India, Tata Motors, Hike,
Shaadi.com, Apeejay Stya & Svran Group, Hungama, Bombay Stock Exchange,
Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Future Group, Macmillan Publishers India,
Infosys, Cognizant, Freshdesk, and many others are part of the growing
community of more than 75,000 AWS customers and partners in India
welcoming the new region
MUMBAI, India -- (Business Wire)
(NASDAQ:AMZN) — Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), the world’s leading
cloud computing platform, today announced the launch of the Asia Pacific
(Mumbai) Region, its sixth in Asia Pacific (APAC). With this launch, AWS
now provides 35 Availability Zones (AZs) across 13 technology
infrastructure regions globally. More than 75,000 India-based customers
are already using other AWS Regions to save costs, accelerate
innovation, speed time-to-market, and expand their geographic reach in
minutes. Starting today, global and India-based developers, start-ups,
enterprises, government organizations, and non-profits can leverage the
AWS Cloud to run their technology applications from infrastructure in
India, and provide even lower latency to India-based end users.
Developers can sign up to start using the AWS Mumbai Region at: http://aws.amazon.com.
The new AWS Mumbai Region consists of two separate Availability Zones at
launch. Availability Zones refer to datacenters in separate, distinct
locations within a single region that are engineered to be operationally
independent of other Availability Zones, with independent power,
cooling, and physical security, and are connected via a low latency
network. AWS customers focused on high availability can architect their
applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even
higher fault-tolerance.
“Indian start-ups and enterprises have been using AWS for many years –
with most Indian technology start-ups building their entire businesses
on AWS, and numerous enterprises running mission-critical, core
applications on AWS,” said Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS. “These same 75,000
Indian customers, along with others anxious to start using AWS, have
asked for an AWS India Region so they can move their applications that
require low latency and data sovereignty. We're excited to make this
available today, with the same pay-as-you-go pricing, ability to get
started immediately without having to negotiate enterprise agreements or
wait days for access, and unmatched functionality that customers enjoy
in AWS Regions worldwide – all of which allows customers to go from idea
to launch faster than ever before was possible.”
Since its founding in 2006, AWS has changed the way organizations
acquire and manage technology infrastructure. With more than a million
active customers worldwide, and more than 70 services across compute,
storage, databases, analytics, networking, messaging, machine learning,
mobile, IoT, and application services, AWS has become the new normal for
companies of all sizes and across all industries to deploy their
business-critical applications. All AWS Regions around the world undergo
regular audits by independent third-parties that validate that each
region is designed and built to meet rigorous compliance standards,
including ISO 27001, SOC 1 (Formerly SAS 70), SOC 2 Security &
Availability, PCI-DSS Level 1 and many more, providing high levels of
security for all AWS customers. As with every AWS Region, customers have
the assurance that AWS will not move their content from the region they
choose. More information on how customers using AWS can meet their
security, data privacy, and compliance requirements can be found at https://aws.amazon.com/security.
India-based Customers Welcome AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
“We have been working with AWS since 2012, steadily moving workloads to
the cloud, such as test and development environments for our core
enterprise systems – we run one of the largest CRM based Dealer
Management implementations in the world – more than 90 Tata digital
properties in production on AWS, and many other applications,” said
Jagdish Belwal, CIO of Tata Motors Limited, India’s largest automotive
manufacturer. “Tata Motors obtained 40 percent savings by running our
digital properties at scale, benefitting from the tremendous agility
made possible by AWS. One of the key priorities we had was around how
AWS could save us costs on traditional workloads, those without much
variability or demand spikes, and we are expecting to save similar
amounts on traditional workloads by running them on AWS.”
Belwal continued, “We are so happy to have an AWS Region in India. AWS
has allowed our IT teams to focus on innovation and become more nimble
to the business demands. Environments that used to take weeks to setup
can now be done in days or hours. AWS also makes it extremely
straightforward for us to progress on our cloud journey utilizing a
hybrid architecture, since it is important to us to leverage the past
investments we’ve made in equipment and technology on-premises for a
period of time; as we work to modernize and streamline our operations on
the AWS Cloud. Rather than decide on ‘what workloads can move to the AWS
cloud,’ we have moved to asking ‘how fast and which ones will be next in
line.’”
Ola, India’s leading cab aggregator and an Indian online transportation
network company, is building their business on AWS. “We are using
technology to create mobility for a billion Indians, by giving them
convenience and access to transportation of their choice,” said Ankit
Bhati, Co-founder and CTO, Ola. “Technology is a key enabler, where we
use AWS Cloud to drive a superior customer experience, and innovate
faster on new features and services for our customers. This has helped
us reach more than 100 cities and 550,000 driver partners across India.
We do petabyte scale analytics using various AWS big data services and
AWS deep learning techniques, allowing us to bring our driver-partners
closer to our customers when they need them. AWS allows us to make more
than 30 changes a day to our highly scalable micro services-based
platform consisting of 100s of low latency APIs, serving millions of
requests a day. We have tried the AWS India Region. It’s world-class and
should help us continue to enhance the experience for our customers.”
Shaadi.com is the world’s no. 1 matchmaking service providing a superior
matchmaking experience to Indians all over the world. “As one of the key
initiatives of becoming a world class tech organization, we decided to
migrate to the AWS Cloud. We have many interdependent applications built
over the last 15 years having unique High IOPS requirements,” said Ketan
Doshi, CTO and Sr. VP, Engineering at People Interactive. “We worked
closely with AWS teams and migrated ‘all-in’ to AWS successfully. We
leveraged AWS Database Migration Service to reduce the time required to
migrate our databases by 40 percent and also realized 55 percent cost
savings by moving some of them to Amazon Aurora. We are planning to move
our other databases to Amazon Aurora. We are now able to efficiently
manage spiky workloads by using AWS for Auto Scaling our compute
resources and improving our site’s performance by 50 percent. AWS has
allowed us to exploit the potential of serverless architectures (AWS
Lambda + DynamoDB) that has delivered more than 80 percent cost savings.
Our Redshift data warehouse solution analyses 67 billion records to
derive key business trends. Being an ‘all-in’ customer of AWS, it is
exciting to see AWS launch their region in India. We will continue to
adopt the latest AWS services to accelerate innovation and continue to
redefine the way Indians find a companion for life.”
Novi Digital, a wholly owned subsidiary of STAR India, is one of the
largest media and entertainment companies in India. The company uses AWS
to run Hotstar, a flagship over-the-top (OTT) broadcasting platform for
delivering movies and live sporting events via the internet. “Hotstar is
India’s largest premium streaming platform with more than 85,000 hours
of drama and movies in eight languages, with coverage of every major
global sporting event. Launched in February 2015, Hotstar quickly became
one of the fastest adopted new media and entertainment apps anywhere in
the world,” said Ajit Mohan, CEO, Hotstar. “It has now been downloaded
by more than 68 million users throughout the world and has attracted
followers on the back of a highly evolved video streaming technology,
with high praise from customers on the quality of experience across
devices and platforms. The reliability of the highly scalable AWS Cloud
infrastructure has been a contributor to Hotstar’s ability to build and
deliver a compelling streaming service for our global customers.”
Investing in India’s Cloud Future
The rapidly expanding AWS
Partner Network (APN) is made up of tens of thousands of Independent
Software Vendors (ISVs) and Systems Integrators (SIs) around the world
who are building innovative solutions and services for the AWS Cloud.
The APN program helps partners build successful AWS-based businesses by
providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market (GTM)
support. In India, the number of partners joining the APN program has
grown over 80 percent in the past 12 months. AWS SIs such as Infosys,
TCS, Wipro, HCL, Accenture, PwC, Blazeclan, Minjar, Frontier,
Intelligrape, Progressive, Cognizant, and Team Computers are helping
enterprises migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical applications on AWS,
and are providing a full range of monitoring, automation, and management
services for customers’ AWS environments. AWS ISVs in India include SAP,
Microsoft, Adobe, Druva, Freshdesk, Manthan, Indusface, Newgen, RAMCO,
Seclore, Mediology, Mithi Software, Vinculum, Infor, Splunk, and many
others who are providing software solutions that are either hosted on,
or integrated with AWS. Customers can easily find, trial, deploy, and
buy software solutions for the AWS Cloud on the AWS
Marketplace.
AWS offers a full range of training
and certification programs to help Indian professionals who are
interested in the latest cloud computing technologies, best practices,
and architectures, advance their technical skills. More than 16,000
attendees have participated in various AWS training events since January
2016 to learn about the latest in cloud technologies, AWS best
practices, and get hands-on instruction with the AWS Cloud. The AWS
Educate Program promotes cloud learning in the classroom and has
been adopted by more than 500 universities worldwide. The program helps
to provide an academic gateway for the next generation of IT and cloud
professionals.
The AWS
Activate program provides India-based startups with the resources
they need to quickly get started on AWS and scale their businesses. AWS
has teamed with accelerators, incubators, Seed/VC Funds, and
startup-enabling organizations such as Nascomm 10K, Sequoia Capital,
Accel Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Tlabs Accelerator, GSF
Accelerator, and others that provide a range of services including
training, AWS credits, in-person technical support, and other benefits.
To further enable AWS customers to rapidly deliver their websites,
applications, and content to India-based end users, AWS also recently
opened a new AWS point of presence (PoP) in Delhi for its Content
Delivery Network (Amazon CloudFront) and DNS service (Amazon Route 53).
This is the third AWS PoP in India, joining Mumbai and Chennai, and is
part of the global AWS network of 56 edge locations across the United
States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America.
Teams of Account Managers, Solutions Architects, Technical Support
Engineers, Professional Services Consultants, Technical Trainers and
various other functions are available to support Indian customers from
offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, and Pune in
their use of the AWS Cloud. Through Amazon’s local selling entity,
Indian customers are provided local invoices and payment options,
enabling payment in rupees via credit cards or bank transfers.
Additionally, AWS recently established an AWS Technical Support center
in Bangalore that leverages local engineering talent to help AWS
customers around the world with everything from break-fix situations to
advice on application development, architectures, and best practices.
The new AWS Mumbai Region, along with the various other investments for
assisting Indian customers who are building their businesses and running
applications on the AWS Cloud, are part of the $5 billion overall
investment that Amazon announced is part of its commitment to India.
About Amazon Web Services
For 10 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 70
fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, analytics,
mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and enterprise applications from 35
Availability Zones (AZs) across 13 geographic regions in the U.S.,
Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and
India. AWS services are trusted by more than a million active customers
around the world – including the fastest growing startups, largest
enterprises, and leading government agencies – to power their
infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more
about AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com.
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