The Morning Brief AI Impact Summit: Amazon's Bet on India's AI Future
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Feb 18, 2026 David Zapolsky, Amazon’s Chief Global Affairs & Legal Officer, explains the company’s India play — from massive data center builds in Hyderabad and Mumbai to AWS services and model access. He discusses tax certainty shaping hyperscaler bets, pragmatic Indian privacy rules and cross-border data resilience. The conversation also touches on geopolitics, quick commerce and practical, agentic AI use cases.
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Build The Base Layer First
- Amazon invests heavily in base infrastructure like data centers and chips to enable wide AI adoption in India.
- Services like Bedrock let companies use multiple models without building their own, accelerating application development.
Seek Long-Term Policy Certainty
- Tax certainty for data centers lets hyperscalers plan multidecade investments and price them correctly.
- Use stable policy frameworks when allocating large capital to avoid sudden regulatory risk.
Being Local And Global Simultaneously
- Amazon's physical presence forces it to act as both a local and global company in geopolitically sensitive markets.
- The company urges open borders and free flow of information and goods to maximize customer benefits.