Amazon Web Services — AP-SOUTH-1 Mumbai Region

Amazon Web Services AP-SOUTH-1 — the Mumbai region — is AWS’s primary Indian AI cloud region, launched in June 2016 and subsequently joined by the Hyderabad region (AP-SOUTH-2, 2022) as part of AWS’s expanding India infrastructure. Operating across three availability zones in the Mumbai metropolitan area, it is the largest public cloud region in South Asia and a critical hub for India’s rapidly growing AI and digital economy.

The Mumbai region hosts Amazon Bedrock with Indian language model support (for Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and other major Indian languages), SageMaker, Rekognition, and Amazon Kendra for enterprise search. Key customers include HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Infosys, Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Reliance Industries, and Flipkart. The Indian government’s MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) has engaged AWS for DigiLocker, Aadhaar verification infrastructure, and other Digital India programmes.

AWS committed $12.7 billion in India infrastructure investment through 2030, the largest single cloud investment commitment in India’s history. This investment supports India’s National AI Mission (IndiaAI), which targets making India a global AI leader. The Mumbai campus operates on the Indian national grid, purchasing renewable energy certificates from Indian solar projects. India’s DPDP Act (Digital Personal Data Protection Act) creates strong data localization pressure, making Indian cloud capacity essential for global companies serving Indian customers.