AWS targets larger banks to drive Cloud growth in India

By Gokul Bhagabati New Delhi, Nov 22 : After gaining traction among some of the smaller banks, Amazon Web Services, the Cloud computing business of e-commerce giant Amazon, is planning “to go deeper across some of the larger banks as well in India,” a top company executive has said.
AWS said that amid the pandemic, it has seen an acceleration both in terms of customer adoption and how they ae using the cloud.
“I can give you an example of RBL Bank which has been a customer but they’ve started adopting and accelerating their journey,” Puneet Chandok, President, Commercial Business, India and South Asia, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd., told IANS in an interview.
They started with 40 apps, and are now increasing the pace of adoption, he said.
Similarly, IndusInd Bank launched a very interesting artificial intelligence-based voice assistant, using Alexa Skill, IndusAssist, which is enabling their customers to conduct financial and non-financial banking transactions using Amazon Echo.
“So again, we have seen a lot more traction in challenger banks, we would love to go deeper across some of the larger banks as well in India, as they continue to adopt the cloud,” Chandok said, adding that the company is “focused on customers across sectors”.