Microsoft has made its India South Central cloud region in Hyderabad, Telangana, generally available, allowing customers to run eligible Microsoft Cloud services and workloads from the site.
The region has three Availability Zones. Microsoft says the design is aligned with India’s regulatory and seismic-zone requirements and is intended for mission-critical workloads at scale.
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Additional services will become available in the region over time.
Hyderabad becomes Microsoft’s fourth cloud region in India, alongside Central India in Pune, South India in Chennai and West India in Mumbai.
The company also operates two datacentres with Jio, which include Jio India West and Jio India Central. Globally, its infrastructure spans more than 80 regions in 34 countries and over 500 datacentres.
The network is said to include more than 800,000km of terrestrial and subsea fibre and over 32 million km of cables.
The launch of the India South Central cloud region follows a $3bn investment announced in January 2025 and a further $17.5bn announced in December 2025.
Microsoft India and South Asia president Puneet Chandok said: “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.
“The Microsoft India South Central datacentre region is a critical part of that foundation, backed by Microsoft’s $20.5bn investment commitment to India’s cloud and AI future. Making India AI-first is about bringing together the scale to support growth, the skills to unlock value, the sovereignty organisations expect, and the security they depend on.”
Early access customers include Adani Group, Bajaj Finserv, HDFC Bank and PB Pay.
Microsoft reported double-digit growth on Azure in India over the past two years. It said more than 90% of NIFTY 100 companies in its analysis use Microsoft 365 Copilot, and that Infosys, TCS, Wipro and LTM have together signed up for over 400,000 Copilot seats.
Copilot passed 30 million paid seats globally, as disclosed in FY26 Q4 results.
The Hyderabad region is said to use enhanced mechanical cooling with air-cooled chillers, part of a shift to datacentres that consume zero water for cooling. Microsoft has targets to be carbon negative, water positive and zero waste by 2030.
In February 2026 it said it had matched 100% of its annual global electricity use with renewable energy, contracting around 40GW of new capacity across 26 countries.
In India, its power agreements cover more than 1GW of solar, wind and hybrid projects, with over 630MW operating.
Last month, Microsoft forged a partnership with 3M to advance AI data centre infrastructure and help in enterprise transformation.
