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Microsoft struck a 10-year deal with Reliance in 2019,
committing to power the oil-to-telecoms conglomerate's data
centers with its Azure cloud.
"We've been working with Reliance across the entire stack -
everything from what they are going to be doing with Azure in
their own data centers and how they will extend it," said
India-born Nadella at the event in Mumbai, where he began the
first leg of his India tour.
"It's sort of a great example of a business leader and a company
which is in very diverse sectors to take a platform approach, to
use technology to create more technology."
The executives did not provide specific details about their
growth plans.
"We're very excited about the partnership that Jio (Reliance's
telecoms unit) and Microsoft will have and I think that will be,
as we look at this decade, a defining partnership," Ambani said.
During a keynote speech earlier, Nadella emphasized the need for
businesses to build their own technology at a time digital
services are transforming all industries, and even homes.
Nadella visits his home country just weeks after telling
Buzzfeed News that India's new citizenship law saddened him and
was "just bad".
India's Citizenship Amendment Act, which paves a way for
minorities from neighboring Muslim-majority nations of Pakistan,
Afghanistan and Bangladesh to gain citizenship, has sparked
weeks of protests.
Critics say that the law, combined with a proposed national
register of citizens, will discriminate against India's Muslims
minority.
Nadella, who did not broach political issues at Monday's event,
will also travel to the southern tech hub of Bengaluru and the
Indian capital New Delhi.
(Reporting by Nupur Anand; Writing by Sankalp Phartiyal; Editing
by Alexandra Ulmer and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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