Google Is Expanding Cloud Services With A New Infrastructure In India

The Google Cloud region in and around Delhi is the US tech giant's second infrastructure in the country and tenth in the Asia-Pacific region.

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said at a press conference, “There has been tremendous growth in the demand for Google Cloud services in India, so by expanding our presence into a new cloud sector for many years to come, we are looking forward to further growth. capacity." conference this week ahead of a formal announcement on Thursday. "This is a major commitment on our part in terms of capital and infrastructure investments, and it should enable us to capitalize on the opportunities that we see in terms of growth."

Kurien said the new infrastructure will help provide solutions to problems like disaster recovery in India and ensure low latency for many government companies in and around Delhi.

Google did not say how much it has invested in setting up new cloud facilities.

Google Cloud's India unit managing director Bikram Singh Bedi said India's fledgling startup economy has also helped drive and accelerate the use of cloud services.

Google Cloud counts domestic social network ShareChat, online travel company Cleartrip and private lender HDFC Bank among its Indian customers.

Google has bet a lot on India. Last year, the company had invested $4.5 billion (about Rs 33,550 billion) in Jio Platforms, the digital arm of oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries, out of a $10 billion (about Rs 74,550 billion) digitization fund. for the country.

In June, Google announced that it would partner with Jio to help India's largest wireless operator with technology solutions for business and consumer offerings ahead of the launch of 5G services.