India, June 25 -- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday met Amazon chief executive officer (CEO) Andy Jassy in the city, on the first day of the latter's India visit.

"We had a nice discussion on how Maharashtra is India's technology capital and how Amazon is the integral partner in the state's digital transformation journey," Fadnavis said in a post on social media platform X. "I was glad to know about the progress of the projects announced via MoU (memorandum of understanding) with AWS (Amazon Web Services) at Davos in 2025, generating 83,100 jobs across India."

The chief minister lauded Amazon's biggest single-state commitment in Maharashtra, at $8.3 billion, and said the state was expanding facilities for developing data cen...