Industry Findings: Enterprise use of cloud compute in India remains a core enabler of digital scale across IT services, BFSI, retail, manufacturing, and government platforms. Organizations are modernizing enterprise IT stacks, analytics environments, and digital customer systems while maintaining disciplined control over costs, data governance, and service reliability. A structural signal appeared in Mar-2024 when India reinforced national guidance on cloud usage for government and regulated-sector workloads, with emphasis on data protection, service continuity, and certified infrastructure. This policy direction has shaped private-sector behavior by encouraging governance-led migration of production workloads. Since then, hybrid deployment models have become the preferred approach, allowing enterprises to balance public cloud elasticity with controlled handling of sensitive data. Demand has concentrated on general-purpose and compute-optimized virtual machines supporting transaction processing, analytics, and application modernization. Accelerated compute usage has increased for AI and advanced analytics initiatives, but adoption remains targeted to specific business domains. Through 2025, enterprises continue to favor predictable performance, workload flexibility, and phased migration strategies that reduce operational risk while supporting sustained digital growth.
Industry Player Insights: Indian market activity is shaped by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. In Aug-2024, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure expanded compute capacity supporting enterprise and public-sector workloads hosted in India, improving availability for regulated use cases. In Feb-2025, Amazon Web Services increased availability of compute-optimized instances in Indian regions, strengthening support for analytics and AI workloads used by large enterprises.