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Vaishali Kasture , the executive Amazon appointed as the interim head of AWS India and South Asia , has throw in the firm , a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch , merely seven month into the top role .
Amazon did n’t now respond to a request for comment by electronic mail and headphone . Amazon counts India as one of its key markets for AWS , which has aggressively courted hundreds of yard of company in the Earth ’s secondly - largest internet market place and has also onboarded many government undertakings .
The e - Commerce Department giant additionally said in May this year that it plans toinvest $ 12.7 billion into its cloud businessin India by 2030 , a quantum of capital unmatched by competitor . To put thing into perspective , the overall India public swarm services market is expected to reach only $ 13 billion by 2026 , according to IDC .
Kasture , who join Amazon about five years ago , help as the interim drawing card of commercial business at AWS India and South Asiastarting in June this year . A reason for her departure could n’t be study .
She was kick upstairs to the top role after her predecessor , Puneet Chandok , abruptly take leave the business firm , jumping ship to adopt the top view at Microsoft India . Up until two weeks ago , Kasture had been enthusiastic and optimistic about the ontogeny chance and impulse of Amazon Web Services in India .
“ Our total planned investment in India will be more than $ 16.4 billion or 1.36 lakh crore by 2030 , and we expect this to contribute $ 23 billion to India ’s GDP by then , ” shewrote in a LinkedIn military post .
“ In addition to investing in base and service , we are also invest in citizenry and skilling and AWS has trained over 4 million people in India through various education and training course of study . ”
