AWS collaborates with SHI India to enable AI infrastructure for IndiaAI Mission

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a collaboration with SHI India (formerly Locuz), an AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner, to support indigenous AI model development under the IndiaAI Mission. This initiative makes AI capabilities accessible to government departments, startups, enterprises, academic institutions, and R&D organisations across India. SHI India, empaneled under the IndiaAI Mission, has provisioned AWS AI services including Amazon SageMaker, giving organisations an option to train and customise Large Language Models without requiring complex AI infrastructure expertise.

AWS’s generative AI technologies leveraging Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker along with SHI’s local implementation capabilities, will support India’s push for technological self-reliance and AI leadership. Amazon SageMaker addresses operational challenges of GPU-based model training at scale through automated cluster setup, checkpoint-less training, and self-healing node recovery. This automation eliminates the complexity of managing large GPU clusters, enabling organisations to maintain continuous training operations without manual ...