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Though Jassy gave no breakdown, the announcement follows
Amazon's cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) saying
last month it will invest 1.06 trillion rupees ($12.9 billion)
in the country by the end of 2030.
Earlier, Amazon had announced a $6.5 billion investment plan,
largely to boost its e-commerce business where it competes with
Walmart's Flipkart and billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance
Retail.
The new investment amount committed now comes to around an
additional $6.5 billion.
The e-commerce giant's announced investment during Modi's trip
adds to other companies, including U.S. semiconductor toolmaker
Applied Materials and memory chip firm Micron Technology, which
have made commitments during the Indian prime minister's state
visit.
Modi and Jassy spoke about supporting Indian startups, creating
jobs, enabling exports, digitisation, and empowering individuals
and small businesses to compete globally, an Amazon blog post
said.
Separately, Google will open a global fintech operation center
in GIFT City in India's western state of Gujarat, with teams
working on operations supporting its payment service GPay, and
other product operations at Google, the company said in a
statement to Reuters.
"We shared Google is investing $10 billion in the India
digitisation fund, and we are continuing to invest through
that," CEO Sundar Pichai told reporters in a video shared on
Twitter by Reuters partner ANI company.
On the final day of his Washington trip, Modi met with U.S. and
Indian technology executives, including Apple's Tim Cook,
Google's Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella and appealed to
global companies to "Make in India".
(Reporting by Aditya Kalra and Jahnavi Nidumolu; Editing by
William Mallard, Jacqueline Wong and Toby Chopra)
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