India has Impacted Amazon’s web business: Andy Jassy, CEO

LAS VEGAS: Indian customers have played a significant role in impacting product decisions of Amazon Web Services, chief executive Andy Jassy said.

Jassy also highlighted the role of a supportive government, which is open to technology.

"India for us, in a lot of ways, has impacted our business. We have had strategic and impactful customers. They have been vocal and very helpful in providing feedback on what they would like to see in the services. It has impacted what we build. We have launched region India and its off to a fantastic start," Jassy said at the AWS Re:Invent conference last week. "There is more to do. It is nice to have a government that is excited about trying to enable that kind of technology and (is) welcoming of companies."

The conference saw Amazon AWS give a major push to its machine learning and Internet of Things services innovation, among a slew of other offerings.

The company has launched DeepLens, a deep-learning enabled, fully programmable video camera. It has a HD video camera and is capable of running over 100 billion deep learning operations per second. Jassy also announced Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service for developers and data scientists.

(The reporter is in Las Vegas at the invitation of the company.)