US-based Amazon Web Services’ Vice-President Worldwide (public sector) Teresa Carlson has requested a meeting with the Minister of Electronics and IT (MeitY) Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Carlson has requested the meeting for Thursday (September 20), to discuss ‘AWS’s commitment to India and how it can support India’s vision of being a world leader in Digital Age’.

Sources in the know told BusinessLine that the meeting is likely to happen on Thursday evening, and AWS may discuss its success stories in the US and Singapore where it has worked closely with governments. For instance, the Singapore administration’s services which are cloud based are all supported by AWS.

“AWS has sent a meeting request for Teresa Carlson with the Minister. She wants to discuss AWS experience of enabling government outcomes across the globe and how AWS can help enable government’s goals in India,” a senior official at MeitY said.

Carlson is the founder and leader of AWS Worldwide Public Sector in 2010 She also advises Amazon Public Policy on global policy issues.

“The focus for her visit will be to drive conversations and partnerships on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build solutions that India needs. AWS strongly believes in the power of AI to create new solutions and new learning mechanisms for the future,” the company wrote in the request letter.

AWS has been in India since 2005, and since the launch of AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region in June 2016, more than 1.20 lakh active customers including Tata Motors, NDTV, Lupin, Future Group and Shoppers Stop have adopted AWS Cloud for a broad range of applications.

Also, sources added, with the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018, to become law soon, the companies like AWS have sought meeting with Prasad to discuss and understand what the government wants, sources added.

With increasing concerns onmisuse of data the government which is keen to promote India as a hub for data analysis has also said that it will not tolerate any misuse of data.

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