In a major push to strengthen India’s generative AI ecosystem, Amazon Web Services (AWS) on February 17 announced a collaboration with the Indian government to address data residency and security needs. The company is working with Yotta Data Services to deploy ‘AWS Outposts’ under the National Informatics Centre (NIC) MeghRaj 2.0 cloud initiative. The move aims to support sensitive government workloads while enabling access to advanced cloud and AI capabilities.
Under this hybrid architecture, government departments can run critical applications within NIC data centres while leveraging AWS services such as Amazon Web Services Nitro System, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The announcement was made during the AI Impact Summit 2026, hosted by India at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi from February 16 to February 20.
Speaking at an Amazon Web Services Symposium held alongside the Summit, Minister of State for IT Jitin Prasada said, “As far as AI goes, India has taken up a great responsibility to ensure that there will be no haves and have not’s. AWS has been collaborating with India for quite some time. It goes to show that AI, cloud and the whole ecosystem is evolving. And it won’t just be cities such as Delhi and Mumbai that will gain. Rural areas, which is the real strength of India, will also be able to connect.” He added, “Collaborations, like the one with the government and AWS, ensures that cloud computing plays an important role in the country’s tech journey. We want to democratise access to compute and ensure that everyone reaps the benefits of AI by taking a bottom-up approach.”
Commenting on the deployment, Sandeep Dutta, President, AWS India and South Asia, said, “This synergy with Yotta represents AWS’s commitment to supporting the Government of India’s digital transformation vision. By deploying Amazon Web Services Outposts for NIC Meghraj 2.0, we’re enabling government departments to leverage the full power of our cloud services and generative AI capabilities while meeting the requirements for sensitive workloads.” Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, Managing Director & CEO, Yotta Data Services, said, “By enabling AWS Outposts within NIC’s Meghraj 2.0 framework, we are combining Yotta’s enterprise-grade data centre and sovereign cloud capabilities with AWS’s advanced cloud and AI services to deliver a robust hybrid architecture tailored for India’s public sector.” AWS Outposts will also support citizen-centric applications during peak demand. During such periods, workloads can expand to the AWS Region in India for data ingestion, with synchronisation back to NIC data centres within hours. NIC can enforce security guardrails using AWS Control Tower to create a baseline for new workloads, reduce manual errors, and prevent security drift.
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