India, April 11 -- India is running one of the most ambitious digital races in the world. Between the rapid rollout of the Rs.2,000-crore IndiaAI Mission, the rise of AI-specialised Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and the expansion of national skilling platforms, organisations of every size are modernising at unprecedented speed. But behind this momentum lies a growing blind spot: The cloud costs powering this transformation are becoming harder to understand, predict, and control.

Cloud has transformed from an IT cost centre into the scalable compute and infrastructure foundation essential for modern AI workloads. Training and serving AI models requires elastic compute, high-performance GPUs, and large, distributed datasets-capabilities th...