Amazon commits $35 billion to India by 2030, expanding data centers and last-mile logistics

The tech giant unveils a massive investment push across AI, cloud, e-commerce, and infrastructure to strengthen its position in one of its biggest global markets.

Amazon announced plans to invest around $35 billion in India by 2030. The Amazon investment in India will cover the company's e-commerce, cloud, logistics and digital services processes in the country over the development of the following five years.

Amazon investment news in India including the about forty billion dollars it has already made since 2010 is expected to reach close to 75 billion dollars.

According to the company the new capital will be used for AI projects, data centers, fulfillment infrastructure, last-mile deliveries and Amazon Web Services. Also Amazon said the Amazon India investment will help its exports program and vendor ecosystem which allow Indian sellers to sell on the platform worldwide.

By integrating AI tools into their processes Amazon aims to help around 15 million small businesses in India. By 2030 the Amazon investment in India is expected to help create about one million jobs.

In India Amazon runs a number of business verticals such as its marketplace, Prime Video, AWS cloud services, payments and shipping. In order to meet the increasing demand the company also expanded its fulfillment network and data center over many states.

As part of its long-term operations in India Amazon continues to invest in local sellers, technology and infrastructure making the country one of its major international markets.

The announcement was released a day after Microsoft declared that it would increase its AI and cloud infrastructure footprint in India by investing $17.5 billion over the next few years. Over the next five years Google is committed to investing $15 billion in India.