The biggest online trading-commerce company of the world and one of the top companies in India, Amazon is doing its best it could to get into the roots of the nation. The company is now focusing on getting the  government data base and to handle it for them.

“Till we didn’t put a region in the country, we haven’t really seen too many government departments wanting to put data on us… but now that we have it, we are seeing a huge amount of activity this year,” said Bikram Bedi, managing director of Amazon Internet Services, part of Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit.

According to a research organization Gartner Inc. India’s  public cloud service market is expected to grow 30.4% in 2016.

“With current e-governance initiatives driving on a public-private partnership (PPP) model, immense investments are being made on the IT infrastructure front. Government bodies are primarily leveraging community cloud for cost and effective manageability reasons,” said D.D. Mishra, research director, Gartner.

The government of India to put their data preferably on local servers than as to put it on big international head-shots. Seeing the need of the hour, a local data centre was launched in India by Microsoft Corp in September, offering its Azure cloud services and commercial Office 365 services to attract local government and businesses.

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