The India and South Asia head of Amazon.com's cloud division, Puneet Chandok, has resigned with effect from August 31, the company said on Friday.
Chandok had taken the helm of Amazon Web Services in June
2019.
Vaishali Kasture, currently head of the enterprise for
mid-market and global businesses at AWS India and South Asia, would take on the
role of interim leader of commercial business for the unit, Amazon India said.
The news came over two weeks after Amazon's cloud computing
unit revealed plans to invest $12.87 billion in India by 2030, doubling down on
its past investments to cater to the growing demand for such services in Asia's
No. 3 economy.
The interim provides an opportunity for other cloud
companies such as Azure and Google Cloud Platform, along with homegrown
players, to make aggressive bids for accounts, said Akshara Bassi, an analyst
at Counterpoint Research.
In April, AWS released a suite of technologies aimed at
helping other companies develop their own chatbots and image-generation
services backed by artificial intelligence.
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The firm also partnered with startup Hugging Face, a
software development hub, in February to make it easier to carry out artificial
intelligence work (AI) in Amazon's cloud.
AWS, the biggest cloud computing provider, already offers
tools to help developers create AI-based software, including proprietary
computing chips for raining AI algorithms on huge amounts of data at lower cost
than rivals to services that reduce how much time it takes to create a chatbot
or other AI products. © Reuters