This investment is in addition to the $35 Bn committed by the company for India, taking the total commitment size to $48 Bn
The funds would enable the company to expand AWS data centre capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad, giving startups, enterprises and government organisations access to custom AI chips, managed AI services, cloud technologies and developer tools
The ecommerce giant is planning to launch 20 new fulfilment centres and over 100 new last mile delivery stations within 2026
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is on a visit to India, announced the ecommerce giant’s plans to invest an additional $13 Bn in India to scale AI and cloud infrastructure by 2030.
This investment is in addition to the $35 Bn committed by the company for India, taking the total commitment size to $48 Bn. Overall, the company plans to invest $21 Bn in AI and cloud infrastructure in India between 2026 and 2030.
The funds would be invested to expand AWS data centre capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad, giving startups, enterprises and government organisations access to custom AI chips, managed AI services, cloud technologies and developer tools.
Beyond AI, the ecommerce giant plans to launch 20 new fulfilment centres and over 100 new last mile delivery stations within 2026. This expansion would particularly be targeted towards strengthening its presence in the Tier III & IV markets.
“As we grow Amazon in India, our business priorities continue to align with India’s priorities of democratising access to AI, digitising small businesses, creating jobs, and enabling exports. We are investing over $48 Bn in the coming five years to meet the strong demand across our business in India and to help the country achieve these priorities,” Jassy, who also met Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, said.
The ecommerce giant has been aggressively investing to grow its India business. In December 2025, it announced a $35 Bn commitment across all its businesses in India till 2030. Between 2010 and 2030, the company has committed investments to the tune of $88 Bn in the country.
The announcement comes at a time when Amazon is looking to aggressively expand its quick commerce vertical, Amazon Now, in an effort to catch up with rivals in the segment.
Yesterday, the ecommerce giant announced plans to expand the fulfilment network of Amazon Now to 300 cities from 100 cities it was targeting earlier this year.
Quick commerce has emerged as the central piece of Amazon’s current strategy for its India business. With a war chest of about $300 Mn, Amazon Now is clocking a 25% month-on-month (MoM) growth in orders in India.
Simultaneously, Amazon has also been bolstering its AI capacity within the country. Last year, the company began deploying multi-billion investments to strengthen its cloud services and AI across states like Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Amazon offers a family of proprietary LLMs called Amazon Nova, along with the Amazon Titan model family. These are accessible to developers through Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed AWS service.
The foundation models handle text, images, and video natively. They are classified into multimodal understanding models, creative generation models and speech-to-speech models (Nova 2 Sonic).
Meeting with Indian business leaders yesterday, Jassy said that India has the scale, talent and ambition to shape the next era of AI-led business transformation.
Underlining the disruptive capabilities of AI, Jassy said that India will be where some of its most important applications are built. He pointed to a deep engineering talent base and the high pace of digital adoption as the reasons the country is positioned not just as a consumer of AI but as a builder and innovator.
Source: Inc42 - Startups
