Amazon Web Services (AWS) said its India business is growing at a double-digit compound annual growth rate (CAGR), supported by expanding adoption of cloud and artificial intelligence services across government, startups and large enterprises, a senior executive said on Wednesday.
Sandeep Dutta, President of India and South Asia at AWS, made the remarks at the AWS Summit in Bengaluru, the company’s flagship annual technology conference in the country.
“India is a very strategic market for us. We are growing at double-digit CAGR in India. We make our investments based on demand. And in India, we have seen very broad-based demand on cloud and AI, which is why we continue to strengthen our investment profile in India,” Dutta said, responding to a question from BW Businessworld.
AWS does not break out India-specific revenue figures publicly.
The comments come as parent company Amazon deepens its financial commitment to India. The Seattle-based e-commerce and cloud giant announced in December that it plans to invest an additional USD 35 billion in India through 2030, building on roughly USD 40 billion already deployed in the country across its businesses, including AWS.
Dutta said AWS’s AI services have reached a USD 15 billion annual revenue run rate (ARR) globally as of the first quarter of 2026, adding that momentum was “only increasing.”
Citizen-Scale Deployments
AWS used the summit to put the spotlight on a string of large-scale government and enterprise deployments it said demonstrated India’s unique position as a testbed for technology at population scale.
DigiLocker, the government’s digital document wallet, now serves over 620 million users and has issued more than 9.5 billion documents since 2015. The government’s Poshan Tracker nutrition monitoring app, run by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, has facially verified 75 million beneficiaries out of 89 million active users using AWS's Rekognition image recognition service.
The Government e-Marketplace, described by AWS as the world's second-largest public procurement platform, handles around 9,000 page views per second and clocks a daily gross merchandise value (GMV) of nearly Rs 1,000 crore on AWS infrastructure.
AWS also said it powered JioHotstar’s streaming of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup final on 8 March, which drew 72.5 million simultaneous viewers, a global streaming record, handling 39.6 petabytes of data with peak traffic exceeding 20 terabits per second, reportedly the highest ever recorded in India.
Enterprise And Startup Traction
Among enterprise use cases, Zomato has cut restaurant menu image processing time from 48 hours to under 8 hours using AWS-based AI, enabling partners to launch menus five times faster. The food delivery platform’s Nugget unit, an agentic AI platform built on AWS, has processed over one billion messages and achieved an 85 per cent end-to-end resolution rate. It is now live with 44 enterprises across banking, fintech and e-commerce.
Online stock broking platform Dhan, which scaled from startup to unicorn status in three years, built a specialised AI model called Artha-M on AWS, trained on Indian capital markets data. The model achieves 88 per cent accuracy on Indian market queries while reducing infrastructure costs by 50 per cent, and now serves 3 million users, handling 5 per cent of India’s stock exchange trading volumes, according to AWS.
The National Health Authority, which administers the world's largest health insurance programme covering 550 million beneficiaries, reduced insurance claim processing time from weeks to under a day and cut fraud detection time by 96 per cent, from hours to 30 minutes, using AWS-powered AI.
Apollo Tyres deployed a custom agentic AI solution that reduced root cause analysis time for manufacturing defects from up to seven hours per issue to under ten minutes.
Building “From India, For India And The World”
Dutta framed India’s growing role not just as a consumption market but as an innovation hub, anchoring AWS India’s strategy around what he called “building from India, for India and the world.”
He cited India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as a model for global digital infrastructure, noting that UPI processes 21 billion monthly transactions that settle in real time.
AWS said it has trained more than 7 million individuals in cloud and data skills in India since 2017. EdTech platform Physics Wallah, which runs 200-250 live classes daily on AWS reaching 98 per cent of India’s pin codes, has built Aryabhatta, described as India’s first education-focused large language model, at one-tenth the cost and five times the speed of comparable global models.
AWS, which completed 20 years of operations this year, said India remains one of its most strategically important markets globally, citing the scale of its customer base spanning startups, financial services, fintech and the public sector. |
