Amazon Web Services (AWS) took 10 years to launch its first infrastructure region in India after its arrival in the country in 2006. However, the announcement of the second region came within the next four years of that. Call it increased interest in cloud computing for service delivery or the government’s push for data localisation, AWS, the market leader of cloud, is hard-pressed to meet its own business expectations of free flow of data across borders while addressing the government’s nationalist aspirations.