THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK
New Delhi, Dec 10: Amazon has outlined a fresh investment plan of over USD 35 billion in India by 2030, reinforcing its role as the country’s largest foreign investor and aligning its expansion with India’s vision of an Atmanirbhar and Viksit Bharat.
The announcement at the sixth Amazon Smbhav Summit in New Delhi followed Microsoft’s USD 17.5-billion commitment to India’s rapidly expanding AI ecosystem a day earlier.
A new Keystone Strategy report shows Amazon has already invested nearly USD 40 billion in India, building out digital and physical infrastructure, supporting millions of livelihoods, and emerging as the leading enabler of ecommerce exports.
The company has digitised more than 12 million small businesses, facilitated USD 20 billion in cumulative exports, and generated about 2.8 million direct, indirect, induced, and seasonal jobs across sectors such as technology, logistics, and operations.
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By 2030, Amazon aims to add another 1 million jobs as it scales its fulfilment and delivery network, benefiting dependent industries including packaging, manufacturing, and transportation.
Its long-term strategy focuses on AI-led digitisation, export growth, small business empowerment, infrastructure strengthening, and job creation—areas that mirror India’s national economic priorities.
A major share of the new investment will advance AI access nationwide. Amazon plans to equip 15 million small businesses with AI tools, enhance shopping experiences for hundreds of millions of customers through visual discovery, conversational assistance, and multilingual features, and introduce AI learning opportunities for 4 million government school students through curriculum support, hands-on experiences, tours, and teacher training aligned with the National Education Policy 2020.
With the planned USD 35-billion infusion, Amazon intends to accelerate digital transformation, expand innovation capacity, and raise cumulative ecommerce exports to USD 80 billion by the end of the decade.
