Amazon Web Services (AWS) India and South Asia’s interim country head for commercial business Vaishali Kasture has quit within seven months of taking over the post from former president of commercial business Puneet Chandok.
Kasture served the global tech giant for about five years. Before her last-served position, Kasture was the head of top enterprise, mid-market, and global businesses in India and South Asia, Moneycontrol reported.
However, AWS India did not respond to Inc42’s email until the time of publishing this article.
Kasture joined AWS as the head of AWS ISV (an accelerate programme for independent software vendors) India. She has also held several key positions in the organisation throughout her tenure.
With a total of 25 years of experience, Kasture has worked with global organisations like L&T Financial Services, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Infosys, etc.
The resignation comes at a time when AWS is working on investing INR 1.056 Lakh Cr ($12.7 Bn) in India by 2030 to upgrade and scale up cloud infrastructure in the country to meet the growing demand.
Its investment in the data centre infrastructure is expected to support around 1.32 Lakh full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs in construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, etc.
In India, AWS operates two data centres in Mumbai and Hyderabad. To build the centres, AWS invested $1 Bn in the Mumbai region, while it spent $2.7 Bn in Hyderabad.
The company estimated that between 2016 and 2022, it contributed more than INR 38,200 Cr ($4.6 Bn) to India’s GDP, meanwhile supporting approximately 39,500 FTE jobs annually in Indian businesses.
In June this year, Chandok resigned from AWS. He was then roped in by Microsoft as its corporate vice president for its India and South Asia businesses in August. This was followed by the resignation of Microsoft India’s former president Anant Maheshwari in July.
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