Puneet Chandok, head of Amazon.com’s cloud division in India and South Asia, has resigned effective Aug. 31, the company said Friday.
Chandok had taken over from Amazon Web Services in June 2019.
Vaishali Kasture, currently head of enterprise for medium and global businesses at AWS India and South Asia, would assume the role of interim commercial affairs chief for the unit, Amazon India said.
The news came more than two weeks after Amazon’s cloud computing unit unveiled plans to invest $12.87 billion (approximately Rs. 10,60,12 crore) in India by 2030, doubling previous investments to meet meet the growing demand for such services in Asia. No. 3 economy.
The interim offers other cloud companies such as Azure and Google Cloud Platform, along with homegrown players, the opportunity to make aggressive bids for accounts, said Akshara Bassi, an analyst with Counterpoint Research.
In April, AWS released a series of technologies to help other companies develop their own chatbots and image generation services backed by artificial intelligence.
The company also partnered with startup Hugging Face, a software development hub, in February to make it easier to run artificial intelligence (AI) in Amazon’s cloud.
AWS, the largest cloud computing provider, already offers tools to help developers create AI-based software, including proprietary computing chips to rain AI algorithms on massive amounts of data at a lower cost than time-consuming service competitors. is to a chatbot or other AI products.
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