Amazon will invest an additional $13 billion to expand AI and cloud infrastructure in India, CEO Andy Jassy announced during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
This new commitment brings Amazon’s planned AI and cloud infrastructure investment to more than $21 billion through 2030—and increases its overall India investment plans to $48 billion, which also includes expanding its e-commerce and logistics footprint.
According to the company, the fresh investments will expand AWS data centre capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad, increasing access to custom AI chips, managed AI services, cloud infrastructure, and developer tools for startups, enterprises, and government organisations.
Amazon said the expanded infrastructure will support production-scale AI workloads using services including Amazon Bedrock, AWS's managed generative AI platform, alongside the company’s Trainium AI chips.
The company also highlighted developer tools, including Amazon Kiro and Quick, which it said are enabling developers and information workers in India to build AI agents and other AI-powered applications.
Jassy said that the investment aims to meet the “strong demand across our business in India”. He added that Amazon's priorities remain aligned with India’s goals of “democratising access to AI, digitising small businesses, creating jobs, and enabling exports.”
The company said hundreds of thousands of Indian organisations, including the National Health Authority, Government e-Marketplace, Apollo Tyres, Delhivery, Physics Wallah, Axis Bank, and HDFC Bank, already use AWS for AI and cloud workloads.
Amazon added that the investment will allow customers to continue storing data within India while accessing its AI infrastructure and services.
The latest commitment comes less than six months after Amazon announced $35 billion in new investments in India. With the new plans, Amazon said its cumulative investments in the country between 2010 and 2030 will exceed $88 billion.
Amazon also outlined broader India expansion plans, including opening more than 20 fulfilment centres and over 100 last-mile delivery stations this year.
The company recently launched Sammaan, a welfare programme for delivery associates, and said it aims to support 3.8 million jobs by 2030, enable $80 billion in ecommerce exports, bring AI to 15 million small businesses, and provide AI education to 4 million government school students.
In a post on X, Prime Minister Modi shared that this signals a ‘growing interest across the world to invest in India.’
Amazon’s latest commitment adds to a wave of multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure investments by global technology companies in India.
Last year, Microsoft announced a $3 billion investment over two years to expand cloud and AI infrastructure, establish new data centres and train 10 million people in AI skills. A few months later, the company increased its commitment, announcing a further $17.5 billion investment through 2029 to expand hyperscale AI infrastructure and operations in the country.
Similarly, Google announced a $15 billion investment over 2026–2030 to establish its first AI hub in Visakhapatnam in partnership with AdaniConneX and Airtel. The company broke ground on the project in April 2026, with the hub set to include a gigawatt-scale AI data centre, subsea cable gateway, fibre infrastructure, and clean energy systems.
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