Microsoft has announced the general availability of its fourth cloud region in India. The South Central cloud region in Hyderabad, joins three other cloud regions: Central India in Pune, South India in Chennai, West India in Mumbai, and aims to offer Microsoft customers more local choice to modernize critical systems, build new digital services, and realize their AI ambitions.
The region builds on Microsoft’s long-term commitment to India’s digital and AI infrastructure, the US$3 billion investment announced in January 2025, followed by the US$17.5 billion investment announced in December 2025. The new data center region comprises three Availability Zones built with a resilient design aligned to India’s regulatory and seismic-zone requirements to support mission critical workloads at scale.
“Whether it is a Frontier Firm already running AI at scale or an enterprise taking its first steps, the question we hear most often is: how do we move faster from experimenting with AI to creating durable business value with AI? That requires trusted infrastructure close to where data lives, teams work and decisions are made,” said Puneet Chandok, President, Microsoft India and South Asia said in a press release. “The Microsoft India South Central data center region is a critical part of that foundation, backed by Microsoft’s $20.5 billion investment commitment to India’s cloud and AI future.”
The region is part of Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure, which includes more than 80 regions in 34 countries, over 500 data centers worldwide, over 800,000 kilometers of terrestrial and subsea fiber, and over 20 million miles (more than 32 million kilometers) of network cables — making it one of the largest, most trusted and secure cloud infrastructures in the world. The launch comes as Microsoft Cloud and AI adoption continues to scale across the country, with Microsoft India registering strong double-digit growth on Azure over the last two years.
