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We provide companies of all sizes with infrastructure web services since 2006 enabling them to access a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as business demands them.

We offer basic technology building blocks as services in categories like storage, computing, databases, deployment and management, content delivery, messaging and monitoring among others. Our customers can choose any combination of services that best meets their needs.

The customer also has the flexibility and choices that they are not locked into a particular operating system, programming language or programming model.

CIOL: What do you think of Indian market in cloud adoption?

Adam: There is fast adoption of AWS cloud in India. Many software developers and start-ups are constantly developing and testing new ideas. AWS enables the talent and businesses to innovate and move faster to accelerate their speed to market.

The early adopters of our offerings are growing fast because we have enabled them to test ideas quickly, innovate fast and reach out to a wider scope of customers across the world to roll out their products or services within a short timeframe. This has definitely given them a competitive edge. Companies in India like redBus, NDTV, Hungama are examples of early adopters of AWS that are growing very successfully and rapidly.