Amazon Web Services — Hyderabad India Region (ap-south-2)

Amazon Web Services launched its second India region — ap-south-2, based in Hyderabad, Telangana — in November 2022. The Hyderabad region provides a second availability zone cluster within India, complementing the original Mumbai region (ap-south-1) launched in 2016, and addresses data residency and latency requirements for southern India and the Hyderabad IT corridor.

Hyderabad is India’s second-largest tech city after Bangalore, hosting major campuses for Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Indian IT majors including Infosys, TCS, and Wipro. The ap-south-2 region supports AWS AI services including Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon Q, serving Indian enterprises building generative AI applications in regional languages and for India-specific use cases.

AWS has committed to investing over $12.7 billion in India cloud infrastructure by 2030, the largest international cloud commitment to India at the time. The Hyderabad region provides lower latency for customers in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala — states with high concentrations of software development, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and IT services companies. The facility is housed in carrier-neutral data centers in Hyderabad’s IT districts, including the HITEC City and Gachibowli corridors.