Amazon has announced a major investment commitment of thirty five billion dollars in India by 2030, strengthening its presence across key sectors such as technology, exports and job creation. The update was shared at the Amazon Smbhav Summit, where Senior Vice President Emerging Markets Amit Agarwal outlined the company’s long term growth plans for the country.
Mr Agarwal said Amazon aims to quadruple India led exports to eighty billion dollars by 2030. The company has already enabled about twenty billion dollars in cumulative e commerce exports so far. Alongside this, Amazon plans to create one million additional jobs across direct, indirect, induced and seasonal roles within the same period.
He confirmed that Amazon has invested forty billion dollars in India since 2010 and will now commit thirty five billion dollars more across all its businesses. This proposed investment is significantly higher than recent long term investment plans announced by other global technology companies.
Mr Agarwal noted that Amazon continues to build large scale physical and digital infrastructure in the country. This includes fulfilment centres, transportation networks, data centres, digital payments systems and technology development capabilities.
The company’s earlier announcement in May 2023 included a twelve point seven billion dollar investment in cloud and AI infrastructure across Telangana and Maharashtra. Between 2016 and 2022, Amazon invested three point seven billion dollars in India.
According to analysis compiled from publicly available data, Amazon has digitised more than twelve million small businesses and supported about two point eight million jobs across sectors in 2024.
To accelerate India’s global export footprint, Amazon has launched a manufacturing focused initiative called Accelerate Exports. The programme aims to connect digital first entrepreneurs with trusted manufacturers and also help manufacturers grow as global sellers. As part of this effort, Amazon will conduct onboarding drives across more than ten manufacturing clusters such as Tirupur, Kanpur and Surat.
At the summit, Amazon also announced a partnership with a national apparel export council to help expand and scale the Accelerate Exports programme across India.
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