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Accelerating India’s digital future: MeitY empanels Amazon Web Services Asia-Pacific (Hyderabad) Region for government workloads
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The empanelment affirms that Amazon Web Services meets government standards of quality, availability, and security, and provides government organisations, public sector undertakings (PSUs), statutory bodies, and financial institutions mandated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) more scope to innovate with the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud.
Amazon Web Services Regions are comprised of Availability Zones (AZs) that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. AZs 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 data centres. Public sector organisations and financial services institutions across India, including banking and payment providers, can achieve greater operational resiliency from the Amazon Web Services Asia-Pacific (Hyderabad) Region – which consists of three AZs – by using its cloud infrastructure for higher availability, disaster recovery, data backup, while meeting security and regulation requirements, and enjoying lower latency performance. Government organisations can improve e-governance standards and enable on-demand digital services for citizens and businesses across India. Similarly, financial services organisations can benefit from agile, efficient, and security-compliant cloud solutions at scale, providing consumers faster and secure digital banking, insurance, and payment innovations.
Powering India’s digital transformation and economy
Access to cloud computing lowers the cost of starting new businesses, encourages innovation, spurs development of new technologies, and enhances e-governance services. Hundreds of thousands of customers in India have chosen Amazon Web Services to run their workloads to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed up time to market. This includes numerous organisations in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including Amazon Web Services customers like Acko General Insurance,
Cloud technology is key to accelerating innovation in India’s public sector. With Amazon Web Services, the Indian government can enhance its delivery of services to citizens, and develop digital public infrastructure, thereby enhancing government-citizen engagement, empowering citizens, and driving better governance. Examples include initiatives such as the development of
The Indian government is pushing ahead with digital transformation initiatives to propel the country to become a
Shalini Kapoor, director and chief technologist for the public sector with Amazon Web Services India Private Limited (Amazon Web Services India), said, “India’s economic growth is tied closely to digital transformation. Cloud computing and adoption of technologies such as generative AI are important for the growth of the country’s digital economy, helping drive digital transformation at scale, modernizing governments, innovating securely and sustainably, and developing future skills. With both Amazon Web Services Regions in India empaneled by MeitY, Amazon Web Services is providing customers more choice to access resilient, secure, and low-latency cloud infrastructure, while offering more ability for Amazon Web Services Partners to develop innovative solutions and address customer needs.”
Addressing customer needs and driving new solutions through partners
The Department of Information Technology, Electronics, and Communication (ITE&C Dept.) in the Government of Telangana uses IT to achieve effective, efficient governance and to promote economic and social development in the state of Telangana, which is home to nearly 40 million people. Srinivas Pendyala, director of e-government initiatives with the ITE&C Dept in the Government of Telangana, said, “We are pleased that the Amazon Web Services Hyderabad Region is empaneled for government workloads. The ITE&C Department is planning to introduce a new paperless secretariat initiative in Telangana, where all approvals pertaining to government-related files within a department will henceforth be completely paperless and digital. This initiative would help achieve a smooth and efficient workflow for approvals and information exchange between various departments. This workflow will have a high number of concurrent users across various government departments, especially during peak periods like the beginning and end of the month. Implementing this initiative in the Amazon Web Services Hyderabad Region will provide us with benefits of high scalability, availability, and low latency, enabling us to deliver seamless, quick, and efficient services to our citizens, and achieve good governance.”
mjunction is one of India’s largest business-to-business (B2B) e-Auction companies, enabling buying and selling between businesses through its innovative digital platforms on Amazon Web Services. More than 3 lakh micro-small-and-medium-enterprises (MSMEs) buy and sell their products and services using mjunction’s e-Auction, e-Procurement, and business to business (B2B) e-marketplace platforms to achieve efficiency, transparency, innovation, and saving. Amit Khan, chief information officer (CIO) of mjunction, said, “mjunction is one of India’s e-Auction pioneers, executing over 30,000 e-Auctions each year for over 150 prominent organisations, including governments and PSUs. Our businesses largely depend on digital platforms and hence requires us to meet stringent compliances and certifications. A second Amazon Web Services Region in India empaneled for government workloads gives us choice to enable disaster recovery, and leverage it for data backup, especially when our customers have high availability applications.”
Based in Hyderabad, Dataevolve Solutions is an Amazon Web Services Advanced Tier Services Partner offering end-to-end cloud migration consulting services to public sector and commercial organisations. Avinash Kommireddi – founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Dataevolve Solutions, added, “Government organisations and agencies are increasingly turning to cloud computing to leverage the benefits of scale, agility, and security. The Amazon Web Services Hyderabad Region offers additional capacity to meet growing customer needs, and opens up more opportunities for Amazon Web Services Partners like Dataevolve Solutions to support government organisations to accelerate e-governance and innovation. Customers with low latency needs, and data residency requirements arising from statutes, regulations, and corporate policy will benefit from a second MeitY-empaneled Amazon Web Services Region in India to run workloads, securely store data, and plan for operational resiliency.”
Long-term commitment to India
The Amazon Web Services Asia-Pacific (Hyderabad) Region’s empanelment by MeitY is part of Amazon Web Services’s long-term commitment to developing India’s digital economy, innovation, and boosting local job creation. Amazon Web Services’s planned investment of
Besides driving local economic growth and boosting innovation, Amazon Web Services is committed to creating a sustainable future through its operations. In 2022, both Amazon Web Services Regions in India – in Mumbai and Hyderabad – were among 19 Amazon Web Services Regions globally whose electricity consumption was
As India transforms digitally, Amazon Web Services is helping individuals develop cloud skills, and organisations to upskill their workforce. Since 2017, more than
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