Amazon on Thursday announced it will invest an additional $13 billion to expand its AI and cloud footprint in India through 2030.
The new investment, announced after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, will fund expansion of Amazon Web Services’ data center capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad.
The announcement marks Amazon’s third major commitment to India in recent years. In 2023, after talks between Mr. Jassi and Mr. Modi, the company announced it would invest $15 billion by 2030, including $12.7 billion in Amazon Web Services. Then, in December 2025, more than $35 billion in investment was pledged. The company’s investment commitments to the country now total $48 billion.
Amazon did not provide details on how the $48 billion total would be deployed across its India operations. Long-term commitments by technology companies typically include both capital and operational expenditures, as well as spending on new infrastructure.
Amazon’s announcement follows a series of investments by global technology companies betting that India will become a major hub for the computing infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence products. Microsoft said in December that it would invest $17.5 billion in India by 2029, and Google said in October that it would invest $15 billion to build an AI hub and data center infrastructure in India.
India has also attracted billions of dollars in stakes in data center projects from investors including Australia’s AirTrunk, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s CPP Investments, and domestic conglomerates Reliance Industries and Adani Group.
New Delhi is trying to attract more investment through policy incentives such as waiving taxes on foreign cloud providers if workloads for services sold overseas are run in Indian data centers.
Amazon is also investing in its domestic retail and logistics network. The company plans to open more than 20 fulfillment centers and 100 last-mile delivery stations this year, and this week detailed plans to expand its quick commerce service Amazon Now to more than 300 cities and towns across the country.
The expansion comes as Amazon seeks to position itself in India’s crowded quick-commerce market, where it competes with Eternal’s Blinkit, Swiggy’s Instamart, Zepto and Walmart’s Flipkart. Flipkart announced earlier this week that it plans to open 1,500 micro-fulfillment centers across the country by the end of 2026.
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