AIM 100: India's Most Influential People Shaping AI in 2026

Sandeep Dutta

President, AWS India & South Asia

Sandeep Dutta

Since taking over as President of AWS India and South Asia, Sandeep Dutta has accelerated AWS’s AI-first strategy in the country. Over the past year, he announced the launch of AWS Marketplace with INR billing for Indian customers, expanded enterprise adoption of Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, and reiterated Amazon’s commitment to invest more than $35 billion in India by 2030 across cloud infrastructure, AI, skilling and digital services. 


At AWS Summit Bengaluru, he positioned India as one of AWS's most strategic AI markets globally.


Dutta has also become one of the industry’s strongest critics of what he calls “AI proof-of-concept fatigue”. He believes the next phase of India’s AI journey will be defined by enterprises moving beyond pilots to production-scale deployments that deliver measurable business outcomes. His message has remained consistent: the winners will be organisations that treat generative AI as a core business capability rather than a technology experiment.

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