The collaboration will enable Indian government departments to access AWS cloud and generative AI capabilities within NIC data centres, ensuring data residency, security compliance, and elastic scaling for citizen-facing services under a hybrid architecture.
Amazon Web Services India Private Limited (AWS India) has announced a collaboration with Yotta Data Services to deploy AWS Outposts for the National Informatics Centre (NIC) under its Meghraj 2.0 initiative. The move is aimed at enabling government departments to leverage AWS cloud services and generative AI capabilities while adhering to stringent data residency and security requirements.
Meghraj 2.0 is designed to strengthen India’s government cloud ecosystem by allowing departments to modernise digital services while keeping sensitive workloads within NIC data centres.
Hybrid cloud for sensitive government workloads
AWS Outposts will allow workloads that must remain within NIC facilities to access AWS’s advanced cloud capabilities. These include security features powered by the AWS Nitro System and managed services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
The hybrid architecture will enable government departments to run sensitive applications locally within NIC data centres while connecting to the AWS Region in India during peak demand for citizen-facing services. During high-traffic periods, applications can scale into the AWS Region for functions such as data ingestion, with synchronisation back to NIC facilities within hours. This approach allows departments to expand beyond on-premises capacity constraints while maintaining compliance.
Additionally, AWS Outposts will allow NIC to enforce security guardrails using AWS Control Tower, creating a standardised security baseline for new workloads and reducing the risk of manual configuration errors or security drift.
"This synergy with Yotta represents AWS's commitment to supporting the Government of India's digital transformation vision," said Sandeep Dutta, President, AWS India and South Asia. "By deploying AWS Outposts for NIC Meghraj 2.0, we're enabling government departments to leverage the full power of our cloud services and generative AI capabilities while meeting the requirements for sensitive workloads.”
Strengthening sovereign digital infrastructure
Yotta said the collaboration aligns with its focus on building secure and sovereign digital infrastructure for India’s public sector.
“This collaboration with AWS strengthens Yotta’s mission to power India’s sovereign and secure digital infrastructure for government”, said Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, Managing Director & CEO, Yotta Data Services. He further added, “By enabling AWS Outposts within NIC’s Meghraj 2.0 framework, we are combining Yotta’s enterprise-grade data center and sovereign cloud capabilities with AWS’s advanced cloud and AI services to deliver a robust hybrid architecture tailored for India’s public sector. Government departments can now scale citizen services seamlessly, leverage generative AI, and innovate faster while ensuring data residency and security within India’s trusted infrastructure ecosystem.”
The initiative marks a significant step in advancing India’s hybrid cloud adoption across government institutions, reinforcing secure digital transformation efforts while enabling innovation at scale.
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