Tata Communications on Tuesday announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to roll out an advanced AI-ready long-distance network across India. According to a regulatory filing the project will see an estimated investment of Rs 430 crore from Tata Communications and is slated for completion by the end of FY26. Tata’s Collaboration With AWS The collaboration will establish a new high-capacity long-distance network to connect three AWS infrastructure locations to boost generative AI adoption and cloud innovation in India it said. The collaboration marks one of Indias largest ever network deployments by Tata Communications in terms of size scale and bandwidth. AWS has two data centre regions in India located in Mumbai and Hyderabad and AWS Direct Connect and AWS Edge Network infrastructure in Chennai. The network will connect AWS infrastructure in Mumbai Hyderabad and Chennai through a comprehensive national long-haul network creating a powerful infrastructure backbone for AI and machine learning (ML) workloads across India it said. Tata Communications Largest Deployments  The new network one of Indias largest ever deployments by Tata Communications -- will have a capacity of 7.2 Tbps with a cable length of 18000 km. It will utilise Tata Communications network connectivity to provide low-latency high-bandwidth connections enabling businesses across India to build train and deploy scalable AI applications as per the filing. The infrastructure is designed to support the most data intensive workloads like 5G generative AI and highperformance computing. This collaboration with Tata Communications will further enable our customers in India to innovate at scale with cloud and generative AI and drive growth in Indias rapidly expanding digital economy Jesse Dougherty Vice President for Network Edge Services at AWS said.  (With Inputs From PTI)