According to techcrunch.com, Amazon announced on June 25, 2026, that it will invest an additional $13 billion to expand its artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure in India through 2030.
Expansion anchored in Mumbai and Hyderabad
The new investment will fund the expansion of Amazon Web Services’ data center capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad. This follows a meeting between Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, and Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, in New Delhi. The infrastructure push is part of Amazon’s broader strategy to position India as a core node in its global AI compute network.
The company confirmed that the $13 billion commitment represents its third major investment pledge for India in as many years. In 2023, after an earlier meeting between Jassy and Modi, Amazon pledged $15 billion by 2030, including $12.7 billion specifically for AWS. Then, in December 2025, it announced an over $35 billion commitment — bringing its total announced investment in India to $48 billion.
Global tech race for Indian AI infrastructure
Amazon’s move aligns with a wave of large-scale infrastructure commitments from other U.S. technology giants targeting India’s growing AI and cloud services market. Microsoft pledged $17.5 billion for India by 2029, while Google committed $15 billion in October 2025 to build an AI hub and data center infrastructure in the country.
International investors are also participating: Australia’s AirTrunk, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s CPP Investments, and domestic conglomerates Reliance Industries and Adani Group have all announced multi-billion-dollar data center projects in India. To accelerate inflows, the Government of India introduced tax exemptions for foreign cloud providers on services sold overseas — provided those workloads run from Indian data centers.
Retail and logistics acceleration
Beyond cloud infrastructure, Amazon is scaling its domestic e-commerce and delivery operations. The company plans to open more than 20 fulfillment centers and over 100 last-mile delivery stations in India this year. It also announced this week that its quick-commerce service, Amazon Now, will expand to more than 300 cities and towns across the country.
This retail infrastructure push comes amid intensifying competition in India’s quick-commerce segment. Amazon Now competes directly with Blinkit (owned by Eternal), Swiggy Instamart, Zepto, and Flipkart (owned by Walmart). Notably, Flipkart recently stated it will open 1,500 micro-fulfillment centers nationwide by the end of 2026.
The source states that Amazon has not disclosed how the cumulative $48 billion will be allocated across its India businesses — including AWS, retail, logistics, and emerging services. Long-term commitments by technology companies typically encompass both capital expenditures and operating expenses, rather than infrastructure spending alone.
Source: TechCrunch
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