AWS Launches Hyderabad Region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday announced the launch of AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). This will mean the general availability of the 30th AWS Region, Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, with three Availability Zones and the ap-south-2 API name.

AWS Hyderabad User Groups has more than 4,000 community members and holds active meetups, including an upcoming Community Day in January 2023.

As the capital and the largest city in Telangana, Hyderabad is already an important talent hub for IT professionals and entrepreneurs.

The new Hyderabad Region gives customers an additional option for running their applications and serving end users from data centers located in India. 

“Customers with data-residency requirements arising from statutes, regulations and corporate policy can run workloads and securely store data in India while serving end users with even lower latency,” Aws said in a statement. 

AWS has a long-standing history of helping drive digital transformation in India. The company first established a presence in the country in 2011, with the opening of an office in Delhi. 

In 2016, AWS launched the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region giving enterprises, public sector organizations, startups, and SMBs access to state-of-the-art public cloud infrastructure. In May 2019, AWS expanded the Region to include a third Availability Zone to support rapid customer growth and provide more choice, flexibility, the ability to replicate workloads across more Availability Zones, and even higher availability.