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Which cloud, for what:a practical map for Indian businesses.
Four hyperscalers with Indian regions, plus Indian providers for price-sensitive and sovereignty-driven workloads. What each is good at, what it costs in practice, and when your own hardware wins.
| Platform | Indian regions | Best for | Pricing feel (India) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | Mumbai, Hyderabad | Breadth of services, startups, data/AI, global products | High on-demand; good savings plans | Largest job market; most docs/community |
| Microsoft Azure | Central/South/West India | Microsoft estates, enterprise, hybrid with AD/M365 | Similar to AWS; hybrid-benefit licences cut Windows/SQL cost | Entra ID integration is the lock-in and the strength |
| Google Cloud | Mumbai, Delhi NCR | Data analytics, BigQuery, AI/ML, Kubernetes | Competitive; sustained-use discounts | GKE is the reference Kubernetes |
| Oracle Cloud (OCI) | Mumbai, Hyderabad | Oracle DB/apps, price-sensitive compute, generous free tier | Often cheapest hyperscaler for compute/egress | Smaller ecosystem; strong for Oracle licensing |
| Indian providers (E2E, Yotta, Nxtra, NxtGen, ESDS, Hostinger/DO for VPS) | India | VPS, GPUs at lower cost, sovereignty, colocation | Low; simpler pricing | Fewer managed services; good for predictable workloads |
| Your private cloud (Proxmox/OpenStack) | Your DC / colo | Flat 24/7 loads, databases, ERP, data-heavy, compliance | Lowest per-VM at >30 vCPU steady load | Needs ops skills or a managed partner |
How to read this
- Hybrid is the default answer for Indian SMEs: stable core on private infrastructure, elastic edge on public cloud.
- Egress, snapshots and managed add-ons add 30–60% to naive cloud estimates — budget for them.
- DPDP Act and sector regulators (RBI/SEBI/IRDAI) are satisfied by Indian regions or on-prem; the auditor decides, not the law alone.