AWS, Yotta bring hybrid cloud to NIC’s Meghraj 2.0

Amazon Web Services India Private Limited has partnered with Yotta Data Services to deploy AWS Outposts for the National Informatics Centre’s Meghraj 2.0 initiative, enabling government departments to adopt advanced cloud and generative AI services while meeting data residency requirements.

The collaboration aims to strengthen hybrid cloud infrastructure under Meghraj 2.0 by allowing sensitive workloads to run within NIC data centres while accessing AWS’s broader cloud capabilities.

AWS Outposts will enable departments handling restricted or sensitive data to use AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), along with the security features of the AWS Nitro System. The architecture is designed to ensure critical data remains within NIC facilities while benefiting from cloud scalability.

Under the hybrid model, applications hosted in NIC data centres can connect to the AWS Region in India during peak demand — particularly for citizen-facing services. Workloads such as data ingestion can temporarily scale to the AWS cloud and synchronise back to NIC infrastructure within hours, enabling elastic capacity without breaching on-premise constraints.

Security and governance are central to the deployment. Using AWS Control Tower, NIC can establish guardrails and baseline configurations for new workloads, reducing risks associated with manual provisioning and configuration drift.

Sandeep Dutta, President, AWS India and South Asia, said the partnership underscores AWS’s commitment to supporting the Government of India’s digital transformation agenda. Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of Yotta Data Services, said the collaboration combines Yotta’s sovereign data centre infrastructure with AWS’s cloud and AI stack to deliver a secure hybrid architecture tailored for the public sector.

The move comes amid a broader push by global cloud providers to align with India’s data localisation and sovereign cloud priorities. In recent months, hyperscalers have deepened similar alliances: in late 2025, Yotta partnered with Microsoft to bring Azure AI services into its sovereign cloud stack; in February 2026, Capgemini expanded its sovereign cloud collaboration with Microsoft; and Deloitte India outlined a multi-year cloud and agentic AI roadmap with AWS. The flurry of tie-ups underscores how hybrid and sovereign architectures are becoming central to public sector and regulated industry cloud adoption in India.