Indian expert group hopes that the localization of cloud storage data may hit large technology companies

"Our advice to collect any cloud data and data in India or Indian entity data is localized," said the data, "data should be provided to investigating agencies and national security agencies." Gopalakrishnan refuses to comment on the draft report but he hopes to submit the information before the end of the month or at least until September 15. A spokesperson of the Ministry of Information Technology said that the department will review the report after submitting the report, but will not comment till then.

Cloud computing refers to the provision of software, storage and other services to remote clients from remote data centers. This allows companies to use programs at lower operating costs because the program and data are not stored in the customer's data center or desktop.

Industry officials say that many Indian companies store data on cloud servers located abroad, and localization licenses can force them to migrate data to India.

"Data localization, the cost of the company's public cloud will increase, because they may require the center capacity to expand the data to adapt to current custodian of customer data outside of India," Research and Consultant in India Shantanu Patro Firm Gartner's research director said. They said that they can increase the customer.

The Group's draft proposal states that India should consider the importance of ensuring "data sovereignty, especially in the context of cross-border flow of data".

"India's legal and policy framework should be ensured to ensure that the data generated by India by Indian citizens, governments and private actors can be used." Officials of a global technology company who provide cloud services in India say that the recommendation of the policy is "protectionism".

The executive said, "It seems that we have set a time for globalization."

According to the draft report, by 2022, the Indian public cloud service market will double more than $ 7 billion. Research firm Gartner estimates that spending on data center infrastructure software will increase by 10% to $ 3.6 billion in 2018.

The official team's draft is listed as Amazon, IBM and Microsoft's major companies which are registered under the Government's Cloud Computing Program. In this, Google, Oracle and Salesforce.com Inc. of Alphabet Inc. have also been listed as "important" companies.

For example, Amazon claims that "thousands of customers" in India use their AWS cloud service platform.

The report says, "As a demand for data hosting, India needs to make data centers quickly."

However, the infrastructure and connectivity of the report highlighted the challenges faced by India's cloud service providers - such as the high cost of electricity demand and various permits - which have increased the cost of operation of the data center.