AWS to Invest $8.2 bn in Maharashtra to Boost GPU Infrastructure
AWS plans to establish state-of-the-art compute facilities and cloud management services.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to invest $8.2 billion in Maharashtra over the coming years, marking a significant commitment to enhancing its cloud infrastructure in India.
This strategic move was discussed during a meeting between AWS’s India and South Asia President Sandeep Dutta and Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw.
The investment aims to advance AWS's infrastructure by deploying advanced GPUs (graphical processing units) to meet the growing demand for cloud services in India.
According to Vaishnaw, AWS plans to establish state-of-the-art compute facilities and cloud management services, positioning itself for substantial growth in the Indian market.
Vaishnaw expressed optimism about the investment’s potential, highlighting that it could lead to significant job creation in India. "With this investment, we expect considerable employment growth in the coming years," Vaishnaw remarked at a press conference following the meeting.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, AWS announced two groundbreaking offerings: AWS Outposts racks designed for high-throughput, network-intensive workloads, and AWS Outposts servers tailored for Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) workloads.
These new solutions enable telecom service providers (telcos) to extend AWS infrastructure and services to deploy on-premises network functions that require low latency, high throughput, and real-time performance.
Set to become generally available later this year, these offerings will support the hosting of critical 5G Core User Plane Function (UPF), RAN Centralized Unit (CU), and RAN Distributed Unit (DU) workloads, enhancing telco capabilities for 5G deployment.
“With these new AWS Outposts solutions, telcos can now run their entire 5G network, including 5G Core and 5G RAN, on AWS cloud services. These innovations will enable faster network deployments, improved price performance, and better customer experiences," said David Brown, Vice President of Compute and Networking at AWS.
