A peep into Amazon's largest global office in Hyderabad

Amazon's largest campus

The new Amazon building is its first owned premises outside the United States. It is spread over 9.5 acres of land, which is aimed to accommodate 15000 employees out of its total employee strength of 62,000.

Inauguration

The building was inaugurated by Mohammed Mahmood Ali, MLC, Minister of Home, Prisons, Fire Services, government of Telangana, in the presence of Amit Agarwal, SVP and Country Head, Amazon India and John Schoettler, VP, Global Real Estate and Facilities, Amazon in Hyderabad on Aug 21 2019.

Features and facilities

With 15,000 work points across 1.8 million square feet in office space built on 3 million square feet of construction area, the facility features casual, collaborative work spaces, as well as private areas. Interfaith prayer rooms, mothers' room, quiet rooms, showers, helipad, and an all-day open cafeteria are some of the features provided in the building.

Fostering employee collaboration

The campus consists of elevators that can move 972 people simultaneously. It also offers 290 conference rooms (one conference room seat for every 3.25 work stations, higher than the global ratio of 1:5) apart from 3 scrum areas per floor to foster collaboration.

Mix of departments under one roof

The building will serve as a development centre that will allow people to build services for serving global customers and not be a back-end centre to just support internal customers. It will have a mix of software engineers, machine learning & data scientists, and product managers under one roof.

More steel than the Eiffel Tower

The campus contains 2.5 times more steel than the Eiffel Tower, measured by weight, and its total built-up area, when spread out, will span over 68 acres of land, equivalent to nearly 65 football fields.

Future products and collaborations

The new facility aims to build global services for AWS, Kindle, Alexa and Amazon Home Services, which will offer services like doorstep pick-up and electronics repair. The company is looking beyond e-commerce in India and is in talks with Future Retail for a 10 per cent stake in one of the largest retailers of the country. With an intention of entering into the food-delivery sector, Amazon is also planning to compete with giants like Zomato and Swiggy.