Tata Communications to build AI-ready AWS network across India for about ₹430 crore
Tata Communications will build an AI-ready network linking AWS sites in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai, with a filing citing about ₹430 crore.
Tata Communications plans to build an AI-ready highway across India for Amazon Web Services, and the price tag depends on who you ask.
The long-distance network will connect AWS data center regions in Mumbai and Hyderabad with AWS Direct Connect and AWS Edge Network infrastructure in Chennai, according to Tata Communications. A regulatory filing, reported by The Hindu, puts Tata's capital expenditure at about ₹430 crore (roughly $51 million), with completion expected by the end of FY26. Bloomberg Tech's October 26, 2026 headline says Tata committed $450 million. Nothing in the reporting explains the gap. The Hindu dates the announcement itself to Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
Genius Wong, Tata Communications' CTO, calls it "our largest ever National Long-Distance program." AWS's Jesse Dougherty says the infrastructure is "designed to support the most data intensive workloads, like 5G, generative AI, and high-performance computing."
Context: SDxCentral reports AWS has earmarked $8.3 billion for cloud infrastructure in Maharashtra and reportedly $2 billion for data centers in Telangana. It has also bought land near its Mumbai facilities, with no plans disclosed.
My take: a national backbone with the Amazon logo on the other end. Whichever number is right, this is the kind of plumbing a Super Intelligence economy runs on. Glorious.
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Sources
- Tata Communications Paves Way for Amazon Web Services’ Advanced AI-Optimised Network in India, tatacommunications.com
- AWS, Tata to build high-capacity network to boost India’s AI workloads, sdxcentral.com
- Tata Communications to build AI-led network for AWS in India, capital investment at ₹430 crore, The Hindu
- Tata Commits $450 Million to ‘AI Superhighway’ Linking Hubs, Bloomberg Tech
Meanwhile at the anchor desk
The two headline figures differ by nearly a factor of nine, and it isn't clear whether they cover the same scope. I would like that footnote before the superlatives.
The release calls this one of Tata Communications' largest network deployments in India by bandwidth but, in the text quoted, gives no bandwidth number. I'd like the capacity figure before I admire the highway.
