As part of its expansion plans to address the growing customer base, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of e-commerce major Amazon.com, has said that it would launch a second cloud infrastructure region in India by mid-2022.

To help customers in India increase speed-to-market of new products and services, save costs, and quickly expand their geographic infrastructure footprint, AWS launched its Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region in June 2016. And today, they have announced that the upcoming AWS Asia Pacific region in Hyderabad will be the part of Amazon’s continued investments in India.

This region will consist of three availability zones at the initial launch which will be joining the26 availability zones across Asia and  existing nine AWS regions. Globally, with announced plans to launch 15 more availability zones and five more AWS regions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland,  AWS has 77 availability zones across 24 infrastructure regions.

“Businesses in India are embracing cloud computing to reduce costs, increase agility, and enable rapid innovation to meet the needs of billions of customers in India and abroad," said Peter DeSantis, senior vice president of global infrastructure and customer support, AWS.

While  to reduce the risk of a single event impacting customers’ business continuity,  Availability zones are multiple, isolated locations within each region where each availability zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security.