Amazon is poised to spend another $13 billion on AI infrastructure and cloud services in India.
The commitment, revealed by CEO Andy Jassy after a June 25 meeting with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in New Delhi, follows an earlier pledge by the company last year to invest $35 billion in the country.
The latest funding will take the total investment committed to India from Amazon between 2026 and 2030 to $48 billion (with $21 billion dedicated to AI infrastructure), and $88 billion overall since 2010.
Among the specific areas where Amazon will focus its spending is the expansion of AI data centers in Mumbai and Hyderabad. According to Amazon, these projects will be geared towards “giving startups, enterprises and government organizations access to custom AI chips, managed AI services, secure and reliable cloud technologies and developer tools” as the AI rollout gains ground.
Amazon has also pledged to assist 15 million small businesses in taking advantage of the benefits of AI and to provide AI education for 4 million school students.
In addition, Amazon has plans to commit to opening more than 20 new fulfillment centers and 100 new last-mile delivery stations this year alone, as it reinforces its status as the largest foreign investor in what is now the world’s most populous country.
“As we grow Amazon in India, our business priorities continue to align with India’s priorities of democratizing access to AI, digitizing small businesses, creating jobs, and enabling exports,” Jassy said in a statement. Modi, meanwhile, posted on X that the deal “shows the growing interest across the world to invest in India.”
That interest has been gathering momentum at a brisk pace over the past years as some of the world’s tech giants have made similar moves. In December 2025, Microsoft said it was investing $17.5 billion between 2026 and 2029 to boost AI infrastructure, including a data center of its own in Hyderabad. This followed Google making public plans to spend $15 billion by 2030 to create an AI hub in the country.
In February, OpenAI confirmed its first deal for data center capacity with local company Tata Consultancy Services’ HyperVault AI subsidiary. Earlier this month, Meta revealed plans for its first Indian data center in the state of Gujarat, in tandem with local conglomerate Reliance.
With India’s population estimated at 1.47 billion and rising, more investment is likely as hyperscalers try to capitalize on the potential of the huge market — and take advantage of the tax breaks put in place by the Indian government to develop AI data centers there.
