A source familiar with the situation informed TechCrunch that Vaishali Kasture, the executive that Amazon hired to act as the temporary president of Amazon Web Services (AWS) India and South Asia, had resigned. Kasture had only been in the top post for seven months.
A request for comment was sent to Amazon via email and phone, but the company did not immediately answer. Amazon considers India one of its most important Amazon Web Services (AWS) markets. The company has actively pursued hundreds of thousands of businesses in India, the world’s second-biggest internet market. It has also onboarded a vast number of government departments and agencies.
A further statement by the e-commerce giant in May of this year stated that it intends to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud business in India by the year 2030. This is a sum of cash that competitors cannot match. To put things in perspective, IDC predicts that by 2026, the Indian public cloud services market will only be worth $13 billion.
Since the beginning of this year, Kasture has been serving as the interim head of commercial business at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in India and South Asia. He has been with the company for around five years. It was not possible to discover the cause of her emigration.
After her predecessor, Puneet Chandok, unexpectedly left the company to take the top job at Microsoft India, she was promoted to chief executive officer. Kasture had been excited and hopeful about the development possibilities and momentum of Amazon Web Services in India until two weeks ago. He had expressed this sentiment repeatedly.
“Our total planned investments in India will be more than $16.4 billion or 1.36 lakh crores by the year 2030, and we anticipate that this will contribute $23 billion to India’s GDP by that time,” she said in a post on LinkedIn.
In addition to infrastructure and service investments, we invest in people and skills. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taught more than four million individuals in India via various education and training initiatives.