Google Develops New Cloud Infrastructure in India

Alphabet Inc. a parent company of Google, headquartered in Mountain View, California is creating cloud infrastructure in India with the second cluster of data centers in and around the capital New Delhi. The aim of such creation is to meet the increasing demands of the customer in a growing market.

Construction of such a cloud region in Delhi and in its outskirts is the U.S. tech giant's second piece of infrastructure created in the country and the tenth in the Asia Pacific.

According to the CEO of Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian, in India, there has been a huge increase in demand for google cloud services, and therefore the expansion of such infrastructure in a new cloud region gives the ability to provide more dimensions for growth over many years. It is a huge commitment from them in capital and infrastructure investment. However, Google did not mention the investments it had made to set up the new cloud facilities.

The development of new infrastructure will aid in providing solutions to problems such as disaster recovery within India and will also ensure low latency for many state-run enterprises in and around Delhi.

The managing director at Google Cloud's India unit, Bikram Bedi mentioned the acceleration enforced by India's young start-up company for the use of cloud services.

Google Cloud counts home-grown social network ShareChat, online travel firm Cleartrip and private sector lender HDFC Bank among its India customers.

Google has ventured big in India. Last year, it made investments of $4.5 billion on Jio Platforms, the digital unit of oil-to-telecoms conglomerate Reliance Industries, from a $10 billion digitization fund targeted for the country.

In June, Google was building associations with Jio to aid India's biggest wireless carrier with technology solutions for enterprise and consumer offerings ahead of the launch of 5G services.